Necropolitics Living Death in Mexico /

• Main Author: Emerson, R. Guy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Political science.; Organized crime.; Latin American Politics.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Governance and Government.; Organized Crime.

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 object of government, thereby placing death in a...