necropower
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]necropower (uncountable)
- Power over life and death, or over deadly activities and products such as assassination, weapons, the death penalty, etc.
- 2011, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Louise Olga Vasvári, Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies, page 281:
- The portrayal in Kontroll of the underground space of the Budapest subway system as a site of potential resistance against the multiple manifestations of necropower, […]
- 2011, David Farrier, Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law, page 68:
- Exposure to the gorgoneion exposes the viewer to necropower; in the context of asylum the visibility of the asylum seeker thus potentially exposes the complicity of the normal situation in necropower.
- 2017, Kenneth Omeje, The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa, page 218:
- In wielding this necropower the ultimate site of deployment of this new form of sovereignty is no longer the body as such, but the dead body of the African civilian.