ABSTRACT
Following Judith Butler’s work, identities are constituted in the available ways of thinking about subjectivity, being and society. Increasingly, the practices, knowledges and languages that govern population and the counting of people have become integral to how contemporary identities are constructed, performed and analysed. Chapter 4 discusses some of the ways in which biopolitical governance discourses circulate ever more frequently in the public sphere, informing how we think about ourselves in relation, not to peoples, but to populations as a countable, measurable set of bodies, against whom we are called upon to judge our own normativity and right to belong.
