ABSTRACT
Biopolitics refers to a form of politics in which the production and management of life dominates. Economists, business people without educational expertise, test makers, and publishers increasingly have become authorized to educate the broader public about educational values, largely through the lens of profit-seeking. Professional-class and working-class students are now subjected to the ideology of corporate culture that demands that individuals learn to be successful entrepreneurial subjects. Michel Foucault explains biopolitics in part through a historical shift in sovereignty in which the historical right over life and death as the dominant wielding of power cedes to more contemporary forms of power "that seeks to administer, secure, develop, and foster life". Biopolitics involves the making of a knowledge of life. Henry Giroux's work on biopolitics highlights the theoretical limitations of various theories of biopolitics. Giroux's work demonstrates that there are far more egalitarian and emancipatory truths that can be told about youth and society.
