ABSTRACT
Michel Foucault elaborated upon the concept by means of a detailed analysis of sociohistorical, demographic, and economic processes that took place in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries. The developments that came after Foucault privileged biopolitics as a “general category” with a historiographic as well a philosophical inclination. Juan Cajigas-Rotundo elaborates the notion of the biocolonialty of power in order to analyze the processes of appropriation and extraction of biodiversity in the Colombian Amazon. Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose propose that it is the generality of the claims in the thought of Agamben and Negri that make them so attractive to academics in the United States, particularly in those attempts that seek to reflect critically upon the present. Thus, while the reception of the concept in the USA may be read as continuous with Foucault’s approach, in Latin America, the discontinuities have become more relevant.
