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        <journal-title>Critical Reflections: Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0000-0000</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0000-0000</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SAPCRAA</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1561</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.65932/critical-reflections-2023-1-1</article-id>
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        <article-title>Foucauldian governmentality and technologies of the self in post-pandemic biopolitics: biopolitical residue and the legacy of self-tracking in the 2020–2023 interval</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>McDougall</surname>
            <given-names>Cheryl</given-names>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7650-1114</contrib-id>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>29</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2023</year>
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      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>9</fpage>
      <lpage>28</lpage>
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        <p>The article examines what remains, in habits of self-monitoring and everyday relations to the quantified body, of the emergency biopolitical regime deployed during the first pandemic phase (March 2020 – mid-2022). Drawing on Foucault&apos;s concepts of governmentality and technologies of the self, and engaging with recent literature on the quantified self, pandemic biopolitics, and contact-tracing technology, the article develops the concept of biopolitical residue — a sociological-philosophical category for what persists in everyday self-relation once an emergency-biopolitical regime is formally rescinded. The original contribution is a typology of five recurrent forms in which the 2020–2022 emergency rationality continues to operate after its formal end: (1) habituated self-tracking, where bodymonitoring practices acquired during lockdowns persist as an internalised regime of attention to bodily parameters; (2) normalised infrastructural surveillance, where digital architectures built for contact tracing remain available for further public-health or commercial use; (3) accepted biometric border-control logics, where QR-code health-pass systems normalised checkpoint architectures that now extend into travel, events, and workplace access; (4) quantified accountability of health, where individual responsibility is reframed as a duty to provide measurable data; and (5) internalised risk-calculation as personal moral comportment, where the calculative habits of the pandemic have shaped a habitus of permanent self-risk-assessment. The article argues that biopolitical residue occupies the structural position of a technology of the self quietly de-coupled from its emergency justification while retaining its operational logic, and that the contemporary self-tracker is an inheritor of pandemic governmentality whose self-relation is more thoroughly biopolitical than customarily recognised.</p>
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        <kwd>post-pandemic</kwd>
        <kwd>biopolitical residue</kwd>
        <kwd>contact tracing</kwd>
        <kwd>digital health</kwd>
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