Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death

ISBN-13: 9780367599331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 198 str.

Patricia J. Lopez; Kathryn a. Gillespie

Opis

Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental systems, this book advances an intersectiona

Spis treści

1. Introducing Economies of Death 2. The Currency of Grief: 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention 3. The Cost of a Second Chance: Life, Death, and Redemption among Prison Inmates and Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses in Bluegrass Kentucky 4. The Administration of Death: Killing and Letting Die during the Cambodian Genocide 5. Is the Puerto Rican Parrot Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of Endangerment and Grievability 6. "Deep Inside Dogs Know What They Want": Animality, Affect, and Killability in Commercial Pet Foods 7. Archives of Death: Lynching Photography, Animalization, Biopolitics and the Lynching of William James 8. Remains to Be Seen: Photographing "Road Kill" and The Roadside Memorial Project 9. Love, Death, Food, and Other Ghost Stories: The Hauntings of Intimacy and Violence in Contemporary Peru 10. Economies of Death: An ethical framework and future directions

O autorze

Patricia J. Lopez is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

Kathryn A. Gillespie is a lecturer in Geography, the Honors Program and the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington, USA.