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Necropower in North America

The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death

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Editors:
  1. Ariadna Estévez

    1. Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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  • Explores necropolitics in relation to migration controls, the security apparatus, capitalism, and extraction
  • Foregrounds the nexus between racialization and the production of disposability
  • Offers state-of-the-art case studies of production of disposability within liberal democracies, focusing on North America and transnational dynamics

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ariadna Estévez
    Pages 1-6

  5. Producing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the Mexico-US Geographical and Political Borders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. The Emergence of Necrosecurity: On the Extra-Legality of the Rule of Law and the Death of the Willful Subject

      • Brenda Gisela Garcia Flores
      Pages 153-174

    3. Necropolitics and International Migration in Mexico

      • Javier Trevino-Rangel
      Pages 175-197

    4. Dwell in Residual Places: Precarization Vortex and Necropolitics in the Homeless Life of the Mexican Northern Border

      • Juan Antonio Del Monte Madrigal
      Pages 199-222

    5. Necroliberalism on the San Diego-Tijuana Frontier: The Dispossessed and Their Reproduction Dispositifs

      • Gustavo Aviña Cerecer
      Pages 223-243

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 245-249
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About this book

This 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 Am​erican communities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Ariadna Estévez

About the editor

Ariadna Estévez is Professor at the Centre for Research on North America of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She teaches human rights, forced migration, and biopolitical and necropolitical research methodologies at UNAM's Faculty of Political and Social Sciences; human rights critical perspectives at the Instituto de Estudios Críticos 17; and human rights from a feminist perspective at the Instituto Simone de Beauvoir. She is the author of Necropolitical Wars and Asylum Biopolitics in North America (2018) and Human Rights, Migration and Social Conflict: Towards a Decolonized Global Justice (2012).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Necropower in North America

  • Book Subtitle: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death

  • Editors: Ariadna Estévez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73659-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73658-3Published: 26 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73661-3Published: 27 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73659-0Published: 25 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 249

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Social Anthropology, Anthropology

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