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Competing meanings of “biopolitics”: In praise of a modest postmodernism: Comment in response to Liesen and Walsh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2016

Amy L. Fletcher
Amy L. Fletcher*
Affiliation:
Political Science Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand amy.fletcher@canterbury.ac.nz

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Biopolitics Forum
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 85 - 89
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