Journal Vision
Biopolitics and Development is a specialized academic journal in the field of critical development studies, focusing on the relationship between biopolitics, power, the state, populations, and everyday life in development processes. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical, and critical research that seeks to examine and critically interrogate the ways in which power is constituted and exercised over populations, subjects, and territories through development discourses and policies. Particular attention is given to the social and historical contexts of societies, especially Iran and countries of the Global South.
Aims of the Journal
- To critically rethink and interrogate development discourses from the perspectives of biopolitics and power relations, with particular emphasis on postcolonial contexts and the Global South.
- To examine the relationship between the state, governmentality, populations, and development, including the ways in which populations, spaces, and social life are governed, regulated, and managed through public policies and development interventions.
- To investigate the impacts of development policies and programmes on everyday life and the formation of social subjects, and to critically examine their consequences for diverse social groups and communities.
- To advance and apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to the critical study of biopolitics and development processes.
- To critically analyse development policies and programmes in Iran and the Global South, with the aim of understanding the mechanisms of power, inequality, exclusion, and marginalization embedded in development processes.
Specialized Scope of the Journal
The journal welcomes original theoretical, empirical, and critical articles addressing the following specialized areas:
- Biopolitics and development discourses
- Governmentality, the state, and development
- Population, power, and development policies
- Biopolitics and social policy
- Development, subject formation, and everyday life
- Development, inequality, exclusion, and marginalization
- Critical analysis of development policies and programmes in Iran and the Global South
- Biopolitics, space, and territory in development processes
- Critical and postcolonial approaches to development studies
