different between governmentality vs biopower

English

French gouvernementalité, equivalent to governmental +? -ity.

governmentality (countable and uncountable, plural governmentalities)

(sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
Synonym: governmentalism

bio- +? power. Coined by Michel Foucault.

biopower (uncountable)

The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

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