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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Necropolitics"”.
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Pandemic racism: describing and delegitimising discursive necropolitics on Africa in Danish mainstream media during COVID-19
… study that combines critical psychology with necropolitics, feminist, queer and crip theory, as well as linguistics through discourse theory and media studies through analysis of news articles to examine how everyday discourse contributes to practices of violence that continue to make race …
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Adapting to Resist: Epistemic Resistance in Twenty-First Century Antigones
… women′s liberation, war in the Middle East, and necropolitics. By closely examining various rewritings of *Antigone* both in theory and in performance, I observe that in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, adapting *Antigone* has taken an epistemic turn that parallels the turn in political theory with …
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A Queer Departure: The Role of Queer Studies and Thanatology in Narrative Videogames Focused on Grief
… Attachment, Loss and Grief, and Mbembe’s (2003) Necropolitics, the thesis discusses how a Queer Death Studies lens can be developed to understand new modes of understanding for representations of young people.
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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective
… In addition, the concepts of biopower and necropolitics are used as an analytical framework to demonstrate the ways in which states and their actors decide which populations of people are worthy of life.</p>
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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
… from the insights of Achille Mbembe’s theory of necropolitics, in conversation with scholarship on hauntings, death, and the horror genre, I consider the ways violence functions in regard to both who is depicted as suffering, but just as importantly who is not. In doing so, I foreground the …
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A new materialist exploration of Sexual and Gender Minorities asylum seekers and refugees’ experiences of the UK’s asylum process
… in conjunction with a conceptual assemblage of necropolitics (Mbembe, 2013), slow death (Berlant, 2007) and slow violence (Nixon, 2011) as lenses to explore participants’ asylum migratory experiences. Assemblage theory acknowledges that multiple bodies- both animate and inanimate interact and …
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
… injustice perspective, integrating the theory of necropolitics. Using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of all 50 U.S. states from 2009 to 2019, this study highlights the impact of restrictive abortion policies during a period of intensified legislative activity, including pre-abortion …
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Fragmentary States: A Study of Power in Conflict Narratives from Peru and Colombia
… the paradigms of biopolitics, (post-)colonial necropolitics and the friend-enemy structuring of the political to shed light on how conflicts in both nations play a crucial role in the fragmentary and conflicted transition to, and specific regional configuration of, neoliberalism. It thus …
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Navigating Vulnerability: Harmonizing Disaster Risk Reduction and Management with Socio-spatial Construction of Risk in Post-Tsunami Aceh
… utilizing the logic of sacrifice and necropolitics (Mbembe, 2002), and further reinforcing "quasi-citizenship," where institutions with limited capabilities deny basic rights to marginalized communities. This thesis emphasizes that a disaster is not merely a natural hazard—it is an …
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Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
… the state of exception (Agamben), and necropolitics (Mbembe) in sequence, to analyze nation-state and colonialism as a simultaneous process of modernization. Methodologically, I combined a genealogical approach, institutional ethnography and semi-structured, in-depth interviews, to …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
… labour and extends Achille Mbembe’s concept of Necropolitics from the purely political to the sphere of work. Acéphalic thought offers a radical yet pragmatic way to confront contemporary existence. Proposing a ‘within and against’ mode, our working lives—and by extension, the existential …
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The necropolitical crisis of racial subjectivity in the South African postcolony: black consciousness as a technology of the self and the limits to transformation
… I have employed Achille Mbembe's notion of Necropolitics to account for contemporary, violent death practices in the governance of colony and postcolony, as well as the global precarity that results from the age of the Anthropocene and the becoming black of the world, signalling the limits …
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Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction
… Foucault's work from Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics."
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Lumpen: Vagrancies of a Concept from Marx to Fanon (and on)
… fascination with, for instance, bare life, necropolitics and the abject. Such work has however rarely considered the political ramifications of such transformations. What we would need, then, is a theoretical framework capable of grasping both aspects of this twofold problematic—the …
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SAMO©... Pedro Kilkerry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, das pilhagens ou o modus da crítica
… Mbembe, in Critique of Black Reason (2018), and Necropolitics (2018) – Sueli Carneiro, in A construção do outro como não-ser como fundamento do ser (2005) – Saidiya Hartman, in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2022) – by Henrique Freitas in O Arco e a Arkhé (2016) and by Frank B. Wilderson …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
… keeps a certain culture of fear alive through necropolitics which was coined by Achille Mbembe (2003). This politics of death, and consequently, that of fear jointly produce what I call ‘frozen citizenship’. Before the revolutionary youth were arrested, Ikonoklasta and MCK collaborated with …
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Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
My PhD is a study of the politically charged literary and visual works that have emerged in response to escalating violence in contemporary Mexico. Providing close, comparative readings of fictional, theoretical and documentary works by critically-acclaimed authors Jorge Volpi, Cristina Rivera …
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Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers
<p>This work argues for a greater reception of transnationalism in literary studies. Though the steady rise of transnationalism has already been studied in many areas of academia, literary studies has only begun to pay attention to it, and scholars appear to remain largely rooted in postcolonial or …