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  • noun The relationship between sovereignty and power over life and death.

Etymologies

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necro- +‎ politics

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Examples

  • 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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