Necropower in North America : the legal spatialization of disposability and lucrative death / / Ariadna Estévez, editor

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.88
• Soggetto topico: Death - Political aspects; Death - Social aspects - North America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): EstévezAriadna
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Situating Necropower in North America -- 1.2 Structure of the Book -- Reference -- Part I: Broadening the Theoretical Scope of Necropower -- Chapter 2: The Management of Death in North America: From the Necropolitical Governmentalization of the State to the Rule of Law Necropower -- 2.1 The Management of Death in North America -- 2.2 From Biopolitics to Necropolitics -- 2.3 The Necropolitical Governmentalization of the State and the Rule of Law Necropower -- 2.4 Capital Accumulation through Lucrative Death -- 2.5 The Legal Spatialization of Disposability -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: From Gore Capitalism to Snuff Politics: Necropolitics in the USA-Mexican Border -- 3.1 Gore Capitalism -- 3.2 Regressive Sensibility: Trump's Victory and the Return of the "Angry White Masculinity" -- 3.3 Institutionalized Racism: The Old Plantations Are Today's Jails and Open-Air Concentration Camps -- 3.4 The Business of Xenophobia and the Exploitation of the Anti-immigrant Discourse -- References -- Part II: Spatializing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the US and Canada -- Chapter 4: The North American Racialization Apparatus: The Management of Undesirable Lives in the United States -- 4.1 Race and Population -- 4.2 Racialization and the Apparatus Logic -- 4.3 The Function of the North American Racialization Apparatus: Composition of a Desirable Population -- 4.4 Strategic Unities Which Produce Figures of Knowledge About Race -- 4.4.1 Whiteness and Whiteyness: Transversal Technologies of the Racial Apparatus -- 4.5 General Schema of the Strategic Unities Producing Racialized Figures of Knowledge -- 4.5.1 Strategic Unity: The Animalization of Black Otherness -- 4.6 Strategic Unity: The Asian Threat -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References. ; Chapter 5: Of Race as Space: Distinguishing Between Autonomous Bodies and Occupied Bodies in the Murder of George Floyd -- 5.1 Of Race as Space -- 5.2 Race: A Critical Discussion -- 5.3 Body-Body and Body-Space -- 5.3.1 The Politicized Body -- 5.4 Police Brutality as Case Study of the Body-Body and Body-Space Distinction -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Getting Away with Murder: Unpacking Epistemic Mechanisms of Necropower and Disposability in North America -- 6.1 Death by Design: Challenges and Contributions of Understanding Necropower and Disposability at the Epistemic Level -- 6.2 Thinking Necropower and Disposability from the Margins -- 6.3 Unpacking the Epistemological Dimension of Necropower and Disposability in North America -- 6.3.1 Normalization of Violence and Death -- 6.3.2 Masculinization -- 6.3.3 Marketization -- 6.3.4 Derision -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Contested Necrocapitalism: Indigeneity Versus Extractivism in Northern Canada -- 7.1 Canadian Necropower -- 7.2 The Link Between Necrocapitalism and Extractivism -- 7.3 Necrocapitalism in Canada -- 7.4 Case Study: The Northern Gateway Project (NGP) -- 7.5 Extractivism and Resistance -- 7.6 Indigeneity Contesting Necrocapitalism? -- 7.7 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Producing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the Mexico-US Geographical and Political Borders -- Chapter 8: The Emergence of Necrosecurity: On the Extra-Legality of the Rule of Law and the Death of the Willful Subject -- 8.1 Introduction: To Be Involved in Something -- 8.2 The Merida Initiative -- 8.3 The Racial Capitalism of Mexico's Drug Wars -- 8.4 Theorizing Necrosecurity: The Rule of Law and the Extra-Legality of Norms -- 8.5 Crafting the Pedagogies of Prevention -- 8.6 Empires of Activism: The Necropolitics of Good Intentions. ; 8.7 On Distance: Se Están Matando Entre Ellos (They Are Killing Each Other) -- References -- Chapter 9: Necropolitics and International Migration in Mexico -- 9.1 Undocumented Migrants: "The Perfect Prey" -- 9.2 Securitization and Migration -- 9.3 The "War on Drugs" and Undocumented Migration -- 9.4 The "Thingification" of Migrants -- 9.5 Taxonomy of the Migration Business -- 9.5.1 Members of Organized Crime: The New Entrepreneurs of Migration -- 9.5.2 State Agents: Beyond Securitization -- 9.5.3 Ordinary People -- 9.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Dwell in Residual Places: Precarization Vortex and Necropolitics in the Homeless Life of the Mexican Northern Border -- 10.1 A Story of Structural Precarization -- 10.2 From the Field Up: A Constructivist Approach to Precarization, Necropolitics, and Residual Places -- 10.3 The Impacts of Rule-of-Law Necropower at the Border: Hardening Migration Policy and the Transition from Deportation to Homelessness -- 10.4 Precarization Vortex in the Mexican Northern Border -- 10.5 Exclusion, Vulnerability, and Precarity in Residual Places -- 10.5.1 Yongos: Homeless Settlement in Tijuana -- 10.5.2 Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire: Dwelling in Residual Places -- 10.6 Necropolitics in Residual Places: Making a Living Dead, Disposability, and the Self-Imposed Violence -- 10.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: Necroliberalism on the San Diego-Tijuana Frontier: The Dispossessed and Their Reproduction Dispositifs -- 11.1 Necroliberalism -- 11.2 Theoretical and Methodological Aspects -- 11.3 The Dispossessed, Nomadic Frontier Condition -- 11.4 Molar and Molecular Lines as Dispositifs for Dispossession -- 11.5 Conclusions -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Necropower in North America
• ISBN: 3-030-73659-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910488700103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II