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Biopolitics and COVID-19
Beneš, Jan ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
Bachelor thesis deals with the topic of biopolitics in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Czech Republic. The work has two main goals: the first goal is to identify and define expert discourses in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic; the second goal is to describe the functions and links of expert discourses to biopolitics. The theoretical basis of the work is drawn from the theory of Michel Foucault and his analyzes of biopolitics, bio-power and epidemics. The method of critical discursive analysis by Norman Fairclough is applied in this work, which is used to analyze expert texts. The first result of the analysis is the identification and definition of three expert discourses: the discourse of experts in the field of natural sciences, medical and economic discourse. The second result of the analysis is the finding that in relation to biopolitics, expert discourses have a recommendatory and analyzing functions. The bachelor thesis places the results of critical discursive analysis in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic and the theoretical framework of Foucault's thinking. At the end of the work I formulate a polemic with Michel Foucault's theoretical background. Key words Sociology, power, biopolitics, covid-19, discourse analysis
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