Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life

by Marina Gržini and Sefik Tatlic

This book articulates a contemporary, globalized world as one in which radical disparities in distribution of wealth are being reproduced as the basis for depoliticized social, institutional, and ideological discourses. At its center is a reorientation of global capitalism from the management of life towards making a surplus value from death. This change is presented as a reorientation of biopolitics (bio meaning life) to necropolitics (necro meaning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739191969
• ISBN13: 9780739191965
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"