Resumen de Caring for the collective: : biopower and agential subjectification in wildlife conservation
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault�s work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation as population politics, questioning the entanglement of harm and care that infuses this space of more-than-human social change. In doing this, the paper elaborates the concept of agential subjectification in order to track the mechanisms that underlie the asymmetric circulation of biopower in human�animal interactions and to develop Foucauldian scholarship for the examination of present-day manifestations of the �will to improve�.
