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Name: Michel Foucault
Core Concepts:
– Power is productive, not just repressive.
– Discourses shape knowledge, norms, and categories of identity.
– Biopower and governmentality manage populations, reproduction, and “social order.”
Application to Trans-Weaponisation:
Trans identities are constructed as “deviant” or “dangerous” through discourse, not nature.
Weaponisation operates through both laws and everyday norms, policing bodies and behaviors.