Necrogeopolitics

Caroline Alphin is an Instructor in the Department of English at Radford University, USA.François Debrix is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) doctoral program at Virginia Tech, USA.

• Introduction: Necrogeopolitics and death-making; 1. Not a state of exception: Weak state killing as a mode of neoliberal governmentality; 2. Political incompetence and death-making: An outline of unsuitable governance; 3. On the loss of death: Necropolitics in the study of genocide; 4. The violent management of peace and beauty in Rio de Janeiro; 5. The necrogeopolitics of Danish welfare and the horror of responsibility; 6. "Death in this country is normal": Quiet deaths in the Global South; 7. Cinematic encounters and frontiers of precarity; 8. The kill zone: Choreographies of life at the limits of a death-world; 9. Specters of schmaltz: Aesthetics, death, and the haunting of communist kitsch; 10. The earth’s dying body: On the necroeconomy of planetary collapse; Afterword: Afterlife, afterdeath

"The past few centuries have been marked by unprecedented, highly efficient practices of death-making on a global scale, exceptional tragedies firmly carved into the imagination of modern humanity. But not all death is spectacular. Necrogeopolitics makes an important contribution to the study of global biopolitics as it offers an excellent collection of essays, by established as well as emerging scholars, that examine how necropolitical logic continues to operate throughout the world at the level of the everyday, the banal, and the ordinary, including austerity measures, practices of social exclusion and urbicide, welfare systems, statistical measurements, and contested kill zones." - Inna Viriasova, Acadia University, author of At the Limits of the Political: Affect, Life, Things.