Necropolitics Covered

Nyberg Sørensen, N. and Huttunen, L. (2022) ‘Missing Migrants and the Politics of Disappearance in Armed Conflicts and Migratory Contexts’, Ethnos, 87(2), pp. 321–337. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1697333. Abstract: In this article we set out to understand the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearance in two seemingly different situations: the missing persons produced by armed conflict and the...

Varley, E. (2019) ‘Monsoons and medicine: the biopolitics of crisis and state indifference in Gilgit-Baltistan’, South Asian History and Culture, 10(1), pp. 78–96. doi: 10.1080/19472498.2019.1576306. Abstract: Through the medium of a hospital ethnography, this paper explores the debilitating impacts of the 2010 monsoon floods on Gilgit-Baltistan’s public health sector, and interrogates how its esc...

Sylvester, O. and Clark, A. (2025) ‘Pura vida for who? Slow violence against Indigenous land defenders in Costa Rica’, Local Environment, pp. 1–20. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2025.2596712. Abstract: Land defense research has largely focused on direct violence – visible, immediate acts of aggression – while neglecting slow violence, an insidious form of harm that is gradual, cumulative, and often invisi...

McCarthy, G. (2010) ‘The climate change metanarrative, state of exception and China’s modernisation’, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 6(2), pp. 252–266. doi: 10.1080/19480881.2010.536675. Abstract: Part one will argue that the climate change discourse has all the hallmarks of a new metanarrative. However, the emergence of this metanarrative was in contradiction to neoliberal theory of the envi...

Benavides, A. (2022) ‘Spiritual Mining: Augustinian Images of Extraction in Colonial Peru’, The Art Bulletin, 104(4), pp. 46–69. doi: 10.1080/00043079.2022.2070393. Abstract: Prints and paintings that celebrate the conversion of Indigenous peoples to Christianity can be perceived as “spiritual mining” in light of an underlying extractive ethos that structured the colonial enterprise. This article...

Barac, M. (2007) ‘Transit Spaces: Thinking Urban Change in South Africa’, Home Cultures, 4(2), pp. 147–176. doi: 10.2752/174063107X209000. Abstract: This work looks at aspects of urban development in post-apartheid South Africa. It concerns the tension between the symbolic town, represented by the “Rainbow Nation,” and the practical town: a topography conceived as a plan of action. Located in Khay...

Pezzullo, P. C. (2024) ‘On Environmental Communication as a Care Discipline’, Environmental Communication, 18(1–2), pp. 1–7. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2300361. Abstract: This is a Special Issue opening essay. The theme of the Special Issue is Care, edited by the author in the inaugural issue of her three-year editorship of the journal. The author furthers her argument for redefining the field of...

Ahluwalia, P. (2004) ‘Empire or Imperialism: Implications for a “New” politics of resistance’, Social Identities, 10(5), pp. 629–645. doi: 10.1080/1350463042000294278. Abstract: Globalisation raises questions about the capacity of the nation-state to function within the national interest. Hardt and Negri argue that nation-state sovereignty is in decline and that Empire -- a new supranational and d...

Abstract: This article examines the challenges and opportunities of teaching an online university seminar on Death Rituals in the midst of several domestic and global crises, including: the COVID-19 pandemic; the massive uprising for Black Lives and against police homicides of unarmed Black individuals; and the climate crisis. In light of these ongoing emergencies, as well as increased cultural at...

Monahan, T. (2015) ‘The Right to Hide? Anti-Surveillance Camouflage and the Aestheticization of Resistance’, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 12(2), pp. 159–178. doi: 10.1080/14791420.2015.1006646. Abstract: There has been a recent surge in artistic designs to conceal oneself from ambient surveillance in public places. These center on the masking of identity to undermine technological...

Isaac, R. K. and Hall, M. C. (2025) ‘Resistance to settler colonialism in Palestine through tourism: the case of Kairos ‘Come and See’, Palestine’, Settler Colonial Studies, 15(4), pp. 706–725. doi: 10.1080/2201473X.2025.2485532. Abstract: Settler colonialism has been theorised as a form of oppression and domination distinct from other colonisation and imperialism processes. This paper aims to dec...

Bartley, S. (2017) ‘Hard labour and punitive welfare: the unemployed body at work in participatory performance’, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 22(1), pp. 62–75. doi: 10.1080/13569783.2016.1263559. Abstract: This article addresses the performance of labour in participatory arts projects and considers the implications of such activity on perceptions of...

Rodríguez, L. C. (2020) ‘Inappropriate/d bodies: Reorganizing the terms of life and death’, Death Studies, 44(11), pp. 727–735. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2020.1771854. Abstract: This introduction to the Queer Death Studies special issue explores an emerging transdisciplinary field of research. This field critically, (self-)reflexively and affirmatively investigates and challenges conventional normativ...

Willcock, S. (2019) ‘Guilt in the Archive: Photography and the Amritsar Massacre of 1919’, History of Photography, 43(1), pp. 47–59. doi: 10.1080/03087298.2019.1613791. Abstract: What role should photographic evidence play in current debates about whether or not Britain should apologise for the historic crimes of empire? This article examines the photographs that emerged from the Amritsar Massacre...

Mavengano, E. (2026) ‘‘And now we are sisters’: fracture, trauma and the limits of female solidarity in On Black Sisters’ Street ’, African Identities, pp. 1–13. doi: 10.1080/14725843.2026.2650399. Abstract: In Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, African women confront the harsh realities of transnational sex work, forming fleeting connections in a world that continues to deny their presence....

Jones, M. (2013) ‘Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township’, Safundi, 14(2), pp. 209–224. doi: 10.1080/17533171.2013.776749. Abstract: The paper limns modes of consumption and wastefulness in recent South African fiction about the township. It draws upon moves of aspiration and carelessness articulated in the youth practice I’khothane to think through the ways i...

Orum Hernández, G. and Barcelos, C. (2023) ‘Queer punishments: School safety and youth of color in the United States’, Equity & Excellence in Education, 56(1–2), pp. 87–99. doi: 10.1080/10665684.2022.2159897. Abstract: Although educational research and policymaking in the United States has generally framed LGBTQ youth and youth of color as mutually exclusive groups, LGBTQ youth of color are increa...

Dingli, S. and Purewal, N. (2018) ‘Gendering (in)security: interrogating security logics within states of exception’, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3(2), pp. 153–163. doi: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1510295. Abstract: This collection contributes to debates, which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. However, rather than focus...

Kasim, M. (2025) ‘Demographic engineering and identity erasure: China’s securitization of the Uyghur population’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1–21. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2580516. Abstract: This article analyses China’s governance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as a case of demographic engineering, understood as a set of state-directed measures that reshape the reproductive, cultu...

Lewicki, A. (2017) ‘‘The dead are coming’: acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders’, Citizenship Studies, 21(3), pp. 275–290. doi: 10.1080/13621025.2016.1252717. Abstract: This article combines the research agenda of the acts of citizenship literature with reflections on emancipatory theatre. I examine the Centre for Political Beauty’s activity-based artwork ‘The dead are coming’ which problematiz...

Ghazal Aswad, N. (2024) ‘Unsafe Homecoming: Unraveling Environmental Injustice and Land Dispossession in the Syrian Refugee Crisis’, Environmental Communication, 18(1–2), pp. 35–42. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2296831. Abstract: This paper attends to the Syrian refugee crisis to argue that land dispossession is not only a political and humanitarian phenomenon, but one that cuts to the core of how w...

Marchal, J. A. (2014) ‘Bio-necro-biblio-politics? Restaging feminist intersections and queer exceptions’, Culture and Religion, 15(2), pp. 166–176. doi: 10.1080/14755610.2014.911036. Abstract: This response to Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press) proposes that, although it might seem a bit far afield for scholars within bibli...

Scheer, S. et al. (2026) ‘Living in Stand-by Mode While Constructing Lived Citizenship’, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, pp. 1–17. doi: 10.1080/15562948.2026.2665108. Abstract: Refugee women can encounter a range of challenges in their new countries, including limited access to health services, education, and employment opportunities, factors that significantly shape and limit everyday liv...

Bhungalia, L. (2012) ‘Im/Mobilities in a ‘Hostile Territory’: Managing the Red Line’, Geopolitics, 17(2), pp. 256–275. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2011.554462. Abstract: This article examines the biopolitical dimensions of conflict manifest in Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Exploring a managed relation between life and death largely unaddressed in Foucault’s conception of biopower, it conte...

Jones, E. (2018) ‘A Posthuman-Xenofeminist Analysis of the Discourse on Autonomous Weapons Systems and Other Killing Machines’, Australian Feminist Law Journal, 44(1), pp. 93–118. doi: 10.1080/13200968.2018.1465333. Abstract: In this article, I critique the current debates surrounding autonomous weapons systems, using feminist posthuman theory to make sense of such systems – and the relation betwe...