The Necropolitical Spectrum: Political lives of the surplus dead
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The Necropolitical Spectrum : Political lives of the surplus dead. / Iturriaga, Nicole; Denman, Derek Scott.
I: Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Bind 8, Nr. 1, 2022, s. 3-22.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Necropolitical Spectrum
T2 - Political lives of the surplus dead
AU - Iturriaga, Nicole
AU - Denman, Derek Scott
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article sets forth a theoretical framework that first argues that necropolitical power and sovereignty should be understood as existing on a spectrum that ultimately produces the phenomenon of surplus death – such as pandemic deaths or those disappeared by the state. We then expound this framework by juxtaposing the necropolitical negligence of the COVID-19 pandemic with the violence of forced disappearances to argue that the surplus dead have the unique capacity to create political change and reckonings, due to their embodied power and agency. Victims of political killings and disappearance may not seem to have much in common with victims of disease, yet focusing on the mistreatment of the dead in both instances reveals uncanny patterns and similarities. We demonstrate that this overlap, which aligns in key ways that are particularly open to use by social actors, provides an entry to comprehend the agency of the dead to incite political reckonings with the violence of state action and inaction
AB - This article sets forth a theoretical framework that first argues that necropolitical power and sovereignty should be understood as existing on a spectrum that ultimately produces the phenomenon of surplus death – such as pandemic deaths or those disappeared by the state. We then expound this framework by juxtaposing the necropolitical negligence of the COVID-19 pandemic with the violence of forced disappearances to argue that the surplus dead have the unique capacity to create political change and reckonings, due to their embodied power and agency. Victims of political killings and disappearance may not seem to have much in common with victims of disease, yet focusing on the mistreatment of the dead in both instances reveals uncanny patterns and similarities. We demonstrate that this overlap, which aligns in key ways that are particularly open to use by social actors, provides an entry to comprehend the agency of the dead to incite political reckonings with the violence of state action and inaction
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Necropolitical spectrum
KW - Surplus death
KW - Necropolitics
KW - Political lives of the dead
KW - Agent dead
U2 - 10.7227/HRV.8.1.2
DO - 10.7227/HRV.8.1.2
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 3
EP - 22
JO - Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal
JF - Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal
IS - 1
ER -
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