1st Edition
Anti-biopolitics of Security Gender-based Violence in Mexico
By R. Guy Emerson
Copyright 2026
252 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Anti-biopolitics of Security: Gender-based Violence in Mexico concerns a politics of life and security in contemporary Mexico. It plots the formation of a violent event, how its deadly circulations strike the body and how the subject emerges amid these connectivities at once corporeal and material.
The book maintains that a politics of life and security takes a wrong turn when concerned only... Read more
Introduction. Anti-biopolitics of security Chapter 1. A security politics of the event Chapter 2. A security politics of the body Chapter 3. A security politics of the subject Conclusion. A dynamic politics of life and security
Biography
R. Guy Emerson is Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla. His research focuses on violence in Latin America and the politics of life and death. He is the author of Necropolitics: Living Death in Mexico (2019).
