Necropolitics Living Death in Mexico
This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood. The author locates the forces of mortality directly on the body, rather than as an obje
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Necropolitics Living Death in Mexico R. Guy Emerson
Studies of the Americas Series Editor Maxine Molyneux Institute of the Americas University College London London, UK
The Studies of the Americas Series includes country specific, cross- disciplinary and comparative research on the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, particularly in the areas of Politics, Economics, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropology, Development, Gender, Social Policy and the Environment. The series publishes monographs, readers on specific themes and also welcomes proposals for edited collections, that allow exploration of a topic from several different disciplinary angles. This series is published in conjunction with University College London’s Institute of the Americas under the editorship of Professor Maxine Molyneux. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14462
R. Guy Emerson
Necropolitics Living Death in Mexico
R. Guy Emerson International Relations and Political Science Universidad de las Américas Puebla San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, Mexico
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Preface
Move with violence. This is the mantra that guides the book. To move with violence, it will be argued, is integral to understanding life, death and power in an evermore deadl
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