Necropolitics: Living Death in Mexico 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Emerson, R. Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030123014 ISBN-13: 9783030123017 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $80.74 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American - Political Science | Terrorism - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
Dewey: 303.625 |
Series: Studies of the Americas |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.87 lbs) 190 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 Michoac n, 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. |