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- noun The relationship between
sovereignty and power overlife anddeath .
Etymologies
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necro- + politics
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A campaign by Mr Cadman would have been a sad, bizarre exercise in necropolitics.
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His group has worked on this issue for years, filing multiple court cases seeking the release of Palestinian bodies. It has put together an 83-page booklet on this practice of withholding the dead as bargaining chips. The group even has a name for it: "necropolitics."
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