Necropolitics

Living Death in Mexico

R. Guy Emerson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 190 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-12301-7 (ISBN)

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This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood. The author locates the forces of mortality directly on the body, rather than as an object of government, thereby placing death in a politics of the everyday. This necropolitics is explored through testimonies of individuals living in towns overrun by organized crime and resistance groups, namely, the autodefensa movement, that operate throughout Michoacán, one of the most violent states in Mexico. This volume studies how individuals and communities go on living not in spite of the death that surrounds life, but more disturbingly by attuning to it.

R. Guy Emerson is Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico.

1: Life, death and power.- 2: Necropolitics: From corpse to body.- 3: The wounded body: A necropolitics of living death.- 4: Necropolitics and resistance: The autodefensa movement.- 5: Thanatopolitics: Mutilating autodefensas.- 6: Mutilation extended.- 7: Making killable: (Pure) violence and a suicidal state.- 8: Necropolitics: Governing by the campfire.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies of the Americas
Zusatzinfo	XI, 190 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Biopolitics • Governmentality • LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS • Necro-Politics • Organized Crime • Violence • War on Drugs
ISBN-10	3-030-12301-4 / 3030123014
ISBN-13	978-3-030-12301-7 / 9783030123017
Zustand	Neuware