Necrogeopolitics : on death and death-making in international relations / edited by Caroline Alphin and François Debrix.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alphin, Caroline (Caroline G.), editor.

Debrix, François, editor.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Social aspects.

Death--Political aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

viii, 213 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations brings together a diverse array of critical IR scholars, political theorists, critical security studies researchers, and critical geographers to provide a series of interventions on the topic of death and death-making in global politics. Contrary to most existing scholarship, this volume does not place the emphasis on traditional sources or large-scale configurations of power/force leading to death in IR. Instead, it details, theorizes, and challenges more mundane, perhaps banal, and often ordinary modalities of violence perpetrated against human lives and bodies, and often contributing to horrific instances of death and destruction. Concepts such as 'slow death,' 'soft killing,' 'superfluous bodies,' or 'extra/ordinary' destruction/disappearance are brought to the fore by prominent voices in these fields alongside more junior creative thinkers to rethink the politics of life and death in the global polity away from dominant IR or political theory paradigms about power, force, and violence. The volume features chapters that offer thought-provoking reconsiderations of key concepts, theories, and practices about death and death-making along with other chapters that seek to challenge some of these concepts, theories, or practices in settings that include the Palestinian territories, Brazilian cities, displaced population flows from the Middle East, sites of immigration policing in North America and spaces of welfare politics in Scandinavian states"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Necro-geopolitics and death-making / Caroline Alphin and François Debrix

Not a state of exception : weak state killing as a mode of neoliberal governmentality / Caroline Alphin

Political incompetence and death-making : an outline of unsuitable governance / Alexander D. Barder

On the loss of death : necropolitics in the study of genocide / Benjamin Meiches

The violent management of peace and beauty in Rio de Janeiro / Francine Rossone de Paula

The necro-geopolitics of Danish welfare and the horror of responsibility / Gitte du Plessis

"Death in this country is normal" : quiet deaths in the Global South / Jessica Auchter

Cinematic encounters and frontiers of precarity / Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro

The kill zone : choreographies of life at the limits of a death-world / Ali H. Musleh

Specters of schmaltz : aesthetics, death, and the haunting of communist kitsch / Stephen Michael Christian and Brent J. Steele

The Earth's dying body : on the necro-economy of planetary collapse / Mauro J. Caraccioli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Necrogeopolitics.

ISBN:

9781138313149

1138313149

OCLC:

1117316414