Necropolitics and Culture; or the Embedding of Cultural Practices in Necropower.
In the burgeoning field of necropolitical studies, priority has been given to the exploration of material practices. Culture is generally regarded either as secondary to these practices or as a set of mimetic representations of necropolitics. In contrast to such approaches, this article contends tha...
| Published in: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 691 - 713 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=155439524&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 155439524 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00420247 UTQ jtl: University of Toronto Quarterly issn: 00420247 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Fall2021 vid: 90 iid: 4 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 155439524 10.3138/UTQ.90.4.02 ppf: 691 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 13.9MB tig: atl: Necropolitics and Culture; or the Embedding of Cultural Practices in Necropower. aug: au: SANTIÁÑEZ, NIL affil: Professor of Spanish, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Saint Louis University. su: Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975 Social change Social evolution Antiquities Material culture sug: subj: Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975 Social change Social evolution Antiquities Material culture keyword: necropolitics necropolitics and culture necropolitics and spectrality necropolitics and the Franco regime necropolitics and the Valley of the Fallen spectrality thanatopolitics ab: In the burgeoning field of necropolitical studies, priority has been given to the exploration of material practices. Culture is generally regarded either as secondary to these practices or as a set of mimetic representations of necropolitics. In contrast to such approaches, this article contends that the critical gaze ought to be directed at necropower's production of cultural artifacts meant to achieve necropolitical goals. A theory of necropolitics that does not encompass the necropolitical production and manipulation of culture is insufficient for it fails to give a complete and thorough account of the complex and variegated technologies of necropower. Cultural practices are much more than simple representations of necropolitics or their ideological or theoretical substratum; they also have the ability to subjugate life to the power of death by actively participating in the construction of death-worlds. This thesis is demonstrated by means of an analysis of the interconnection between necropolitics and culture in General Franco's Spain (1939-75)· The adoption of the theoretical standpoint put forth in this article might refine and broaden the field of necropolitical studies. Discussions on necropolitics need to open up to the embedding of culture in necropower. Centred on the analysis of the role of cultural practices within necropolitics, this direction might prove fruitful in future studies for it would reveal, with more precision than the studies limited to analysing the material dimension of necropolitics, the extent, the force, the tools, and the power of coercion of the politics of death. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of University of Toronto Quarterly is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: University of Toronto Quarterly holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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