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19 décembre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10777
- isbn: 9782735119981
- eisbn: 9782735122851
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes, « The Ends of the Body: Neocannibalism and Military Necropolitics », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10777
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Drawing on Michel Foucault’s critique of sovereignty and its relation to war and biopower (Foucault 2003) and on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), this chapter addresses the neglected and controversial problem of necropolitics, which Mbembé and Meintjes (2003) defined as “the exercise of sovereignty over death, maiming, and killing in wartime.” Genealogies of a tabootopic My subject is the plunder of the bodies of the enemy during or in the af...