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Niklas Altermark

Niklas Altermark

Docent

Niklas Altermark

Neuro-Problems : Knowing Politics Through the Brain

Författare

  • Niklas Altermark
  • Linda Nyberg

Summary, in English

In recent years, neuroscientific knowledge has been applied far beyond its context of emergence to explain human behaviour in general and to address a host of specific societal problems. In this article, we discuss the emerging research field of ‘neuropolitics’ that seeks to bring neuroscientific methods and findings to political science. Neuropolitics is investigated as a particular way of approaching political problems as located in the brain. We argue that neuropolitics research gives expression to a rationality of government that allows researchers to put forward policy prescriptions based on neuroscientific knowledge. Neuropolitics thus run the risk of leading to what we call a ‘pathologisation of politics’, that turns political problems into biological deviations.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2018

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

31-48

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Culture Unbound

Volym

10

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Linköping University Electronic Press

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • neuroscience
  • neuropolitics
  • political rationality

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2000-1525