Inventing Privacy: Biopolitics of Race, Gender and Class in 19th century America

Inventing Privacy: Biopolitics of Race, Gender and Class in 19th century America

Authors

  • Bhushan Arekar Associate Professor, Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Ghatkopar, Mumbai

Keywords:

Privacy, Apparatus, Biopolitics, Genealogy, Discourse, Surveillance, Power knowledge, Race, Technology

Abstract

The article using Michel Foucault’s concept of apparatus will examine the genealogical history of privacy. Privacy as a concept has been accorded universal status in the discourse of liberal subjectivity.  The article will examine how in the late nineteenth-century America, the apparatus of privacy engendered the discourse of privacy as a truth claim. Beneath the universality of privacy, there was a contested relationship between race, class, gender, and technology. Using different case studies, it will be argued that the apparatus of privacy was instrumental in constructing a white upper-class privileged discourse of privacy.




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Published

2023-10-24

How to Cite

Arekar, B. (2023). Inventing Privacy: Biopolitics of Race, Gender and Class in 19th century America. Journal of Polity and Society, 15(1). Retrieved from https://journalspoliticalscience.com/index.php/i/article/view/194
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