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Economies of Death - Economic logics of killable life and grievable death (Paperback)
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Economies of Death - Economic logics of killable life and grievable death (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable
Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose
lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight
distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability
of certain humans, animals, and environmental systems, this book
advances an intersectional theory of economies of death. A key
feature of late-modern capitalism is its tendency to economically
order certain human and nonhuman lives and environments, while
appropriating and commodifying certain bodies and spaces in the
process. Spanning the social sciences and humanities in its
contributions and scope, each chapter shows how living beings and
places are stripped down to the calculus of their end, with
profound ethical and political implications for these entities and
the world around them. From the genocide in Cambodia to the way
some animals are considered 'pets' and others 'food'; from
September 11, 2001 and Afghanistan to the politics of redemption
for prisoners and ex-racehorses in Kentucky, these case studies
draw from and develop an enriched understanding of bio- and
necropolitics, posthumanism, killability and grievability. In
drawing together the objectification of humans, animals and
environments (and the power-laden hierarchies that maintain this
objectification), this volume highlights how death across these
subjects informs and responds to broader geo-economic processes.
This book aims to examine the reach of economies of death across
such diverse subjects, challenging readers to consider the
every-day calculus they make in determining whose lives mean more
and why.
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