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Necropolitics

Living Death in Mexico
Studies of the Americas

von: R. Guy Emerson
80,24 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	27.02.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9783030123024
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<p>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 <i>autodefensa </i>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.</p>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<div>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 <i>autodefensa </i>movement.- 5: Thanatopolitics: Mutilating <i>autodefensas</i>.- 6: Mutilation extended.- 7: Making killable: (Pure) violence and a suicidal state.- 8: Necropolitics: Governing by the campfire.</div>

Autorenportrait

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

Back cover copy

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 <i>autodefensa </i>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.<div><br></div><div><b>R. Guy Emerson</b> is Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico.<br></div>

Sonderbeitrag

Explores the immanent production of life – albeit amid violence – that underpins contemporary politics Focuses on crises themselves, rather than their aftermath, and thereby pointing to a living amid violent death Decentralizes death beyond the state to involve a range of actors (cartels, vigilante groups) that dislodge questions of administration

Unpublished endorsement

“An original and incisive study of life, death and power in contemporary Mexico, Emerson’s book makes an important contribution to the analysis of biopolitics and necropolitics and to an understanding of the phenomenological modulations of living in the death worlds of Michoacán. A timely, keenly observed and elegantly argued contribution.” (Silvia Posocco, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birbeck, University of London, UK)<p> </p>

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