ISBN:
9781138805767
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Parallel Title:
Print version Economies of Death : Economic logics of killable life and grievable death
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental systems, this book advances an intersectional theory of economies of death. A key feature of late-modern capitalism is its tendency to economically order certain human and nonhuman lives and environments, while appropriating and commodifying certain bodies and spaces in the process. Spanning the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introducing economies of death; 2 The currency of grief: 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention; 3 The cost of a second chance: life, death, and redemption among prison inmates and Thoroughbred ex-racehorses in Bluegrass Kentucky; 4 The administration of death: killing and letting die during the Cambodian genocide; 5 Is the Puerto Rican parrot worth saving? The biopolitics of endangerment and grievability
Description / Table of Contents:
6 "Deep inside dogs know what they want": animality, affect, and killability in commercial pet foods7 Archives of death: lynching photography, animalization, biopolitics, and the lynching of William James; 8 Remains to be seen: photographing "road kill" and The Roadside Memorial Project; 9 Love, death, food, and other ghost stories: the hauntings of intimacy and violence in contemporary Peru; 10 Economies of death: an ethical framework and future directions; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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