Usually means: Control of populations through power.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (biopower)

noun:  (political science) The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.
noun:  Bioenergy.

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