abstract

• Using findings obtained through ethnographic and documentary research on the San Diego-Tijuana border, the primary objective of this chapter is to contribute to the knowledge of necroliberal processes, constructions of power, and subjectivities. This chapter examines the hypothesis that, by certain dispositifs, the frontier condition of this territory results in and causes a unique manifestation of necrotic tissue. The analysis centers on a specific agency of subjectivity defined here as the dispossessed, identifying some of their social forces, principal metanarratives, and the anatomopharmalogical construction of power. Finally, it analyzes how the dispossessed may be considered a transhuman subjectivity, a structural expression of corporeal and mental frontiers, where economic and political necropowers are unevenly interwoven in emerging subjectivity forms and social organization.

authors

• Aviña Cerecer Gustavo

publication date

• 2021-01-01

published in

• Necropower in North America  Book

keywords

• Necroliberalism, Transnational organized crime, Sex, Dispossessed, San Diego-Tijuana Frontier 

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PubMed ID

start page

• 223

end page

• 243

volume

issue