Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Necrogeopolitics and death-making
	Rethinking necropolitics and biopolitics
	Necropolitics and international relations
	Necrogeopolitics and ordinary death-making
	Outline of the book
	Notes
	Bibliography
1. Not a state of exception: Weak state killing as a mode of neoliberal governmentality
	Introduction
	Sovereignty, biopower, racism
	Mbembe’s assessment of biopower
	Is necropolitics really about sovereign power?
	The spatio-temporality of neoliberalism: Povinelli, Cacho, and Wacquant
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
2. Political incompetence and death-making: An outline of unsuitable governance
	Introduction
	Biopolitical reason and affective politics
	Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell: on ignorance and incompetence in the colony
	The violence of austerity: incompetence and its slow deaths
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
3. On the loss of death: Necropolitics in the study of genocide
	Introduction
	On social death
	Biopolitics and the plasticity of life
	Genocide and the problem of death
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
4. The violent management of peace and beauty in Rio de Janeiro
	Introduction
	Making sense of life
	The reproduction of social life in Rio de Janeiro
	Favelas do not fit on the map
	Beautification and securitization
	Conclusion: the democratization of beautiful forms of life
	Notes
	Bibliography
5. The necrogeopolitics of Danish welfare and the horror of responsibility
	Introduction
	The Danish national Thing
	The racism of Danish freedom fantasies
	Denmark in the world
	The trauma of responsibility
	Notes
	Bibliography
6. “Death in this country is normal”: Quiet deaths in the Global South
	Introduction
	Counting the dead: mortality rates and global health in “Africa”
	Constructing health crises: the discourse on Ebola
	The politics of wailing: some conclusions
	Notes
	Bibliography
7. Cinematic encounters and frontiers of precarity
	Prologue: on deniability
	Ethical driftings: genres and genres of man
	The grammar of borders: Diego Quemada-Díez’s The Golden Dream
	Cinematic borderscapes
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
8. The kill zone: Choreographies of life at the limits of a death-world
	The “more-than-human geopolitics” of siege warfare
	Technologies of movement and the construction of besieged subjects
	The invisible line
	Liminality
	Counter-choreographies
	Notes
	Bibliography
9. Specters of schmaltz: Aesthetics, death, and the haunting of communist kitsch
	Introduction
	Aesthetics and kitsch
	On kitsch
	Hauntology and kitsch
	The intersection of kitsch and death
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
10. The earth’s dying body: On the necroeconomy of planetary collapse
	Introduction
	First vignette: unnatural histories
	Second vignette: the political necroeconomy of nature
	Third vignette: telling stories while we wait
	Notes
	Bibliography
Afterword: Afterlife, afterdeath
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index