Necropolitics [electronic resource] : Living Death in Mexico / by R. Guy Emerson.

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Necropolitics [electronic resource] : Living Death in Mexico / by R. Guy Emerson.

First edition 2019.

9783030123024
3030123022
9783030123017 (print)
3030123014
9783030123031 (print)
3030123030
9783030123048 (print)
3030123049

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

English

1 online resource (XI, 190 pages :) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-030-12302-4 doi

320.4

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.

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