Possessed by Death

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ID4932918
AuthorsStephen Dillon
Year2012
Volume2012
Issue112
Pages113-125
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-1416196
OpenAlexW2313599032
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This article offers a critical genealogy of the neoliberal-carceral state by engaging the writing of Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur's work is read as a black feminist theorization of neoliberalism at the very moment of its emergence. By engaging Shakur's discussion of race, gender, time, and the market, the article pursues a connection between chattel slavery and the present that has yet to garner attention among scholars: slavery's haunting possession of neoliberalism. Although slavery's antiblack technologies inhabit and structure the prison, they also live on in the operations of the market. In particular, this article examines the relationship between the carceral, the market, the body, and population to consider how the necropolitics of slavery possess and drive the biopolitics of neoliberalism. The author argues that under neoliberalism, the market not only colludes with the prison, but also mimics it

Biopower · Criminology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Sex work and related issues · South African History and Culture

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