necropolitics
English
Etymology
necro- + politics
Noun
necropolitics (uncountable)
- The relationship between sovereignty and power over life and death.
- 2007, Mitchell Dean, chapter 8, in Governing societies: political perspectives on domestic and international rule, →ISBN, page 148:
- The idea of a supreme power which monopolizes legitimate violence is as much about limiting and restraining 'necropolitics' as it is about engaging in it.
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Derived terms
- necropolitical
Related terms
- biopower
- necropolis