Necropolitics: Living Death in Mexico - Rilegato

Emerson, R. Guy

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ISBN 10: 3030123014 ISBN 13: 9783030123017

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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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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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030123014
• ISBN 13: 9783030123017
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 190
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