Necropolitics

R. Guy Emerson

ISBN 10: 3030123014 / ISBN 13: 9783030123017

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, CH, 2019

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Necropolitics
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, CH
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030123014
• ISBN 13: 9783030123017
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 2019 ed.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 17.15W x 2.54H x 21.59D centimeters 17.15 centimeters width by 2.54 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
• Weight: 386 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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