Description
Book SynopsisThis book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-à-vis their devices, subjectivities, necroempowered subjects, and production of spaces of death in their geographical and symbolic borderlands with the Third World: the US-Mexico border, indigenous lands, migrant and Black-American neighborhoods, and resource rich geographies. North American necropowers not only profit from death, but also conduct disposable populations to death throughout the region. The volume proposes a postcolonial perspective that characterizes the political power of North America as a necropower—or the sovereign power to make die. Each chapter therefore theorizes and analyzes the specificities of necropower, examining different necropolitics that range from asylum and migration restrictions to the economic exploitation and abandonment of deprived populations and policing of ethnic minorities, in particular Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples, and African American communities.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction
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
Chapter 3. From Gore Capitalism to snuff politics: necropolitics in the USA-Mexican Border
Part II. Spatializing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the US and Canada
Chapter 4. The North American Race Apparatus: Management of Undesirable Lives in the United States
Chapter 5. Of Race As Space: Distinguishing Between Autonomous Bodies And Occupied Bodies In The Murder Of George Floyd
Chapter 6. Getting away with murder: unpacking epistemic mechanisms of necropower and disposability in North America
Chapter 7. Contested Necrocapitalism: Indigeneity Vs. Extractivism In Northern Canada
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
Chapter 9. Necropolitics and International Migration in Mexico
