Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Biopolitical Genealogy of Putin’s Regime Introduction Framing the biopolitical debate The Russian biopolitical debate: an outline The “Russian world” and civilizational biopolitics Putin’s zoepolitics The necropolitical turn Is it fascism yet? Conclusions Chapter 2. Performative Biopower and Biopolitical Activism Sovereign biopower and biopolitical dystopia The biopolitics of performative resistance Piotr Pavlensky’s biopolitics of protest Aleksandr Gabyshev, the Shaman Conclusions Chapter 3. Biopower and Sovereignty in the Russian Sports Industry Introduction The Soviet doping legacy The Sochi doping scandal Biopolitical sovereignty Sovereignty and anatomopolitics Conclusion Chapter 4. Biopolitics of the Pandemic Introduction Medicalized bio-governmentality Regionalized governmentality Futuristic bio-governmentality The bio-governmentality of resistance Anatomopolitical governmentality The absent center of sovereignty? From the pandemic to war Conclusion Chapter 5. War in Ukraine: From Bio- to Necropolitics Introduction Anatomopolitics of the “Russian world”: the Bucha massacre Biopolitics of mobilization: the body as a natural resource Exposing bare life: “Wagner” PMC The gendered war: re-defining masculinity, femininity, and the family Necropolitics of war: the cult of death Concluding remarks: the dialectics of bio- and necropolitics Conclusion Appendix: Academic Glossary References Index

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