Metamorphic Necropolitics. Deadly Othering in European East– West Power Relations

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dc.abstract.enIn this chapter, we discuss the metamorphic character of the operation of necropolitics (Mbembe 2003, 2016) within the East– West power dynamics in Europe, along the dimensions of gender, sexuality, and race. We focus on how necropolitics operates both across East– West boundaries and within contexts that have themselves been operationalised as necropolitically sacrificable within East– West power dynamics. We want to show how necropolitical practices can deem certain populations sacrificable within one context while – in the same, yet further differentiated, context – those same populations can mobilise necropower to regulate life and make it unliveable for its sub- populations and other Others. We understand necropolitics as operating in tandem with biopolitics (Foucault 2003), with both forms of mobilisation of power operating at a population level and constituting ‘two sides of the same coin’ (Braidotti 2013: 9). Contemporary global and local politics are saturated with the management of populations through simultaneous processes of ‘making live’ (Foucault’s biopolitics) and ‘making die’ (Mbembe’s necropolitics), which – it could be claimed – take place either with some degree of asymmetry or one after the other (Majewska 2022). Through these processes, contemporary power structures are exposed, showing how the lives of some populations are deemed worthy of maintaining, while the lives of other populations are condemned to what Mbembe (2003: 40) calls the ‘status of living dead’, or even literal death. These simultaneous – or rather even intra- active (Barad 2003) – operations of biopower and necropower warrant in- depth analysis, in which any form of making live and any form of making die will be understood as mutually constitutive. Moreover, as shown by Gržinić and Tatlić (2014), the biopolitical and necropolitical operations of power are inherently embedded in the operations and reproduction of capitalism and neoliberalism, as saturated with current forms of racism, coloniality, extractivism, and democratic forms of governing.
dc.abstract.plRozdział podejmuje złożony problem nekropolityki jako współczesnej formy rządzenia populacją (Mbembe, Foucault), szczególnie wobec grup mniejszosciowych (osoby migranckie i LGBTQ+ oraz pracownicy). Nekropolityka nasiliła się w czasie pandemii Covid-19, i z tego czasu pochodzi większośc omawianych w rozdziale przykładów. Przyglądamy się też szczególnie granicom UE i traktowaniu osób z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej jako pracowników w krajach Zachodu.
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.contributor.authorGórska, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorHendl, Tereza
dc.contributor.authorMajewska, Ewa
dc.contributor.editorLykke, Nina
dc.contributor.editorMehrabi, Tara
dc.contributor.editorRadomska, Marietta
dc.date.access2025-11-12
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-12T10:44:00Z
dc.date.available2025-11-12T10:44:00Z
dc.date.created2025-08-14
dc.date.issued2025-10-30
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.edition1
dc.description.physical154-164
dc.description.sdgGenderEquality
dc.description.sdgReducedInequalities
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.isbn9781032504384
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1976
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003398486-14/metamorphic-necropolitics-magdalena-g%C3%B3rska-tereza-hendl-ewa-majewska?context=ubx&refId=bf6cdb3c-cdfc-4ede-9e91-1c920f1e1306
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o kulturze i religii
dc.publisher.ministerialRoutledge
dc.relation.bookRoutledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies
dc.relation.languageen
dc.relation.pages758
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.rights.explanationPublikacja chroniona prawem autorskim (Routlege)
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dc.subject.enNecropolitics
dc.subject.enminorities
dc.subject.enexclusion
dc.subject.enborders
dc.subject.plnekropolityka
dc.subject.plmniejszości
dc.subject.plwykluczenie
dc.subject.plgranica
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titleMetamorphic Necropolitics. Deadly Othering in European East– West Power Relations
dc.typeMonographyChapter
dspace.entity.typeBook