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The productivity of necropolitics [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
The following text responds to the ongoing debate on the widespread violence in Latin America, claiming the existence of a necropolitical mode of production that is constituted through an entanglement of expropriation and dual exploitation.
T. Dorsch
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Death marks in the city – contesting the signature of gendered necropolitics in Vitória, Brazil [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
Focusing on the aftermath of the abduction, rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl in Vitória, the paper argues that the violent event has left various traces that index a necropolitical power formation oriented towards hegemonic political and economic ...
I. M. M. Robaina, I. M. M. Robaina, P. B. Teixeira, J. S. Hutta   +3 more
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Recalling the Rwandan genocide and its effects on the democratic present: an analysis based on media necropolitics

Conversas & Controvérsias, 2021
This paper aims to analyze the influence of the narratives disseminated during the Rwandan genocide (1994) on the present democratic situation of the country.
Júlia dos Santos Acerbi, Lays Serpa de Souza de Oliveira e Silva, Tiago Grossi Dornelas   +2 more
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DESBORDAR EL CUERPO: LA ARTICULACIÓN DE LA RESISTENCIA A LA VIOLENCIA NECROPOLÍTICA EN LA CARNE DE RENÉ, DE VIRGILIO PIÑERA

Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica, 2021
En el presente artículo se propone que, en La carne de René de Virgilio Piñera, la instauración de un marco de violencia necropolítica provoca que los cuerpos pertenecientes a La Causa articulen una resistencia a partir de la creación de un cuerpo sin ...
Moisés Mayén Alfaro
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From Queer Necropolitics to Queer Eschatology: Reza Abdoh’s Unsettling Historiography

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2021
The theatrical oeuvre of Reza Abdoh has been lauded for its reinvigoration of the avantgarde, its formal and political daring and its astute commentary about the violence of the HIV virus (Fordyce, Carlson, Mufson, Bell).
Patricia Ybarra
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The Slow Intimacy of Necropolitics [PDF]

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
Human beings seem to have a fascination with pictures of death or what can be called ‘necrovoyeurism’. Circulating pictures of dead bodies has become easier with the use of social media.
Amanda Gouws
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The Pandemic, Patient Advocacy, and the Importance of Thinking; Comment on “The Rise of the Consucrat” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021
The profound inadequacies of Western modernist ways of thinking have been revealed by the intimately connected catastrophes of climate destruction, and more recently, the coronavirus crisis. The pandemic has forced us to notice deepening inequalities and
Órla O’Donovan
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Death on the Aegean Borderland

Mashriq & Mahjar, 2021
In this article, I seek to change our understanding of necropolitics with regard to how host states and refugees themselves deal with their dead. Through technocratic practices for the former, and biophysical violence for the latter, I provide a reading ...
Mija Sanders
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Necropolitics and Neo-Orientalism: Theory and Practice

Arab Studies Quarterly
In the theory of necropolitics, we read how a nation, or a group of people, uses power, both military or political, to dictate how certain people in a region can live and how some must die.
Mubarak Altawaiji, Faiz Algobaei, Muna Telha   +2 more
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A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024).

The Thinker
Dlamini’s latest book delivers an incisive review of necropolitics in the history of South Africa’s political life. According to Achille Mbembe (Necropolitics 2019), necropolitics is the use of both political and social power to dictate how one must ...
Taurayi Munemo
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