The onto-politics of body counts.

This paper is concerned with a conundrum: the contention that the dead are dehumanized both through body counts and their absence. To understand this paradox we need to excavate who normatively speaking has a life that counts. I advance the idea of countability as a novel explanatory concept to name...

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Published in:	Political Studies Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 1209 - 1230
Main Author:	Lloyd, Moya
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Aug2026
Subjects:	Dehumanization Discursive practices Sociology Mortality Grief Human rights
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost