Gender in Necropolitics

Race, sexuality, and gendered death

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ID4079146
AuthorsEge Selin Islekel (0000-0002-7447-5653, Fordham University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume17
Issue5
Publication date2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12827
OpenAlexW4220815494
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited23

This article focuses on gender in the theoretical framework of necropolitics. To this end, I first articulate the role of gender in Mbembe's own account, and then explicate necropolitics as a conceptual tool that accounts for the overwhelming presence of death in contemporary politics. Gender is an undertheorized element of Mbembe's account of necropolitics; as it takes a secondary role while accounting for racial and (post)colonial violence. Nevertheless, necropolitics provides a helpful tool of analysis for gendered violence, and specifically gendered death. Through situating gendered death within the framework of necropolitics, we can move from power to resistance with respect to the contemporary politics of death, and articulate how other politics of death are formulated in transnational feminist, queer, and trans movements. Thus, necropolitics as a conceptual tool is helpful in understanding how contemporary colonial gender system works through not only an articulation, but optimization, of death

Biopower · Colonialism · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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