Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Studies of the Americas (STAM)
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About this book
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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Book Title: Necropolitics
Book Subtitle: Living Death in Mexico
Authors: R. Guy Emerson
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12302-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12301-7Published: 08 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12302-4Published: 27 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Topics: Latin American Politics, Terrorism and Political Violence, Governance and Government, Organized Crime