New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2016. The development of the research on biopolitics in recent years has been characterized by two tendencies: the increasingly sophisticated theoretical engagement with the idea of power over and the government of life that both elaborated and challenged the Foucauldian canon, and the detailed and empirically rich investigation of the concrete aspects of the government of life in contemporary societies. This Handbook brings these two debates together, combining theoretical sophistication and empirical rigour.