... or biopower by scholars working in the field of Vietnamese studies. Noting the rich evidence for a “biopolitical Vietnam” already extant in interdisciplinary literatures, this introduction to the special issue explores the potential analytic and disciplinary payoffs of yet more focused and intentional...

... of populations biopolitics and posited the concomitant rise of biopower : a form of power aimed at “improving the life, health, and welfare of the individual and population” 10 through a program of selectively “making live”—amplifying the vitality of some individuals or groups—and “letting die...