Necropolitics: Living Death in Mexico

ISBN-13: 9783030123017 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

R. Guy Emerson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part I: The wounded body

Chapter 1: Life, death and power

Chapter 2: Necropolitics: From corpse to body

Chapter 3: The wounded body: A necropolitics of living death

Chapter 4: Necropolitics and resistance: The autodefensa movement 

Part II: The mutilated body 

Chapter 5: Thanatopolitics: Mutilating autodefensas

Chapter 6: Mutilation extended

Chapter 7: Making killable: (Pure) violence and a suicidal state

Chapter 8: Necropolitics: Governing by the campfire

O autorze

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

Blurb

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.