Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Situating Necropower in North America
	1.2 Structure of the Book
	Reference
Part I: Broadening the Theoretical Scope of Necropower
	Chapter 2: The Management of Death in North America: From the Necropolitical Governmentalization of the State to the Rule of Law Necropower
		2.1 The Management of Death in North America
		2.2 From Biopolitics to Necropolitics
		2.3 The Necropolitical Governmentalization of the State and the Rule of Law Necropower
		2.4 Capital Accumulation through Lucrative Death
		2.5 The Legal Spatialization of Disposability
		2.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: From Gore Capitalism to Snuff Politics: Necropolitics in the USA-Mexican Border
		3.1 Gore Capitalism
		3.2 Regressive Sensibility: Trump’s Victory and the Return of the “Angry White Masculinity”
		3.3 Institutionalized Racism: The Old Plantations Are Today’s Jails and Open-Air Concentration Camps
		3.4 The Business of Xenophobia and the Exploitation of the Anti-immigrant Discourse
		References
Part II: Spatializing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the US and Canada
	Chapter 4: The North American Racialization Apparatus: The Management of Undesirable Lives in the United States
		4.1 Race and Population
		4.2 Racialization and the Apparatus Logic
		4.3 The Function of the North American Racialization Apparatus: Composition of a Desirable Population
		4.4 Strategic Unities Which Produce Figures of Knowledge About Race
			4.4.1 Whiteness and Whiteyness: Transversal Technologies of the Racial Apparatus
		4.5 General Schema of the Strategic Unities Producing Racialized Figures of Knowledge
			4.5.1 Strategic Unity: The Animalization of Black Otherness
		4.6 Strategic Unity: The Asian Threat
		4.7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Of Race as Space: Distinguishing Between Autonomous Bodies and Occupied Bodies in the Murder of George Floyd
		5.1 Of Race as Space
		5.2 Race: A Critical Discussion
		5.3 Body-Body and Body-Space
			5.3.1 The Politicized Body
		5.4 Police Brutality as Case Study of the Body-Body and Body-Space Distinction
		5.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: Getting Away with Murder: Unpacking Epistemic Mechanisms of Necropower and Disposability in North America
		6.1 Death by Design: Challenges and Contributions of Understanding Necropower and Disposability at the Epistemic Level
		6.2 Thinking Necropower and Disposability from the Margins
		6.3 Unpacking the Epistemological Dimension of Necropower and Disposability in North America
			6.3.1 Normalization of Violence and Death
			6.3.2 Masculinization
			6.3.3 Marketization
			6.3.4 Derision
		6.4 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Contested Necrocapitalism: Indigeneity Versus Extractivism in Northern Canada
		7.1 Canadian Necropower
		7.2 The Link Between Necrocapitalism and Extractivism
		7.3 Necrocapitalism in Canada
		7.4 Case Study: The Northern Gateway Project (NGP)
		7.5 Extractivism and Resistance
		7.6 Indigeneity Contesting Necrocapitalism?
		7.7 Conclusion
		References
Part III: Producing Disposability and Lucrative Death in the Mexico-US Geographical and Political Borders
	Chapter 8: The Emergence of Necrosecurity: On the Extra-Legality of the Rule of Law and the Death of the Willful Subject
		8.1 Introduction: To Be Involved in Something
		8.2 The Merida Initiative
		8.3 The Racial Capitalism of Mexico’s Drug Wars
		8.4 Theorizing Necrosecurity: The Rule of Law and the Extra-Legality of Norms
		8.5 Crafting the Pedagogies of Prevention
		8.6 Empires of Activism: The Necropolitics of Good Intentions
		8.7 On Distance: Se Están Matando Entre Ellos (They Are Killing Each Other)
		References
	Chapter 9: Necropolitics and International Migration in Mexico
		9.1 Undocumented Migrants: “The Perfect Prey”
		9.2 Securitization and Migration
		9.3 The “War on Drugs” and Undocumented Migration
		9.4 The “Thingification” of Migrants
		9.5 Taxonomy of the Migration Business
			9.5.1 Members of Organized Crime: The New Entrepreneurs of Migration
			9.5.2 State Agents: Beyond Securitization
			9.5.3 Ordinary People
		9.6 Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 10: Dwell in Residual Places: Precarization Vortex and Necropolitics in the Homeless Life of the Mexican Northern Border
		10.1 A Story of Structural Precarization
		10.2 From the Field Up: A Constructivist Approach to Precarization, Necropolitics, and Residual Places
		10.3 The Impacts of Rule-of-Law Necropower at the Border: Hardening Migration Policy and the Transition from Deportation to Homelessness
		10.4 Precarization Vortex in the Mexican Northern Border
		10.5 Exclusion, Vulnerability, and Precarity in Residual Places
			10.5.1 Yongos: Homeless Settlement in Tijuana
			10.5.2 Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire: Dwelling in Residual Places
		10.6 Necropolitics in Residual Places: Making a Living Dead, Disposability, and the Self-Imposed Violence
		10.7 Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 11: Necroliberalism on the San Diego-Tijuana Frontier: The Dispossessed and Their Reproduction Dispositifs
		11.1 Necroliberalism
		11.2 Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
		11.3 The Dispossessed, Nomadic Frontier Condition
		11.4 Molar and Molecular Lines as Dispositifs for Dispossession
		11.5 Conclusions
		References
Index