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Warfare Over Healthcare: It’s Necropolitics All the Way Down

Next year, an estimated five million people will be priced out of health insurance in the United States. I am one of them. When I went to renew my family’s policy, I was shocked to discover my premium had gone…

Mexico, the Country That Digs Over Its Dead: Necropolitics, Silence, and Resistance in the Mass Graves of Jalisco

The earth groans when the shovels of the Madres Buscadoras —the Searching Mothers— strike what the State ignored: black plastic bags and bones amid the disturbed soil of Zapopan, Jalisco. Less than twenty kilometers from the green grass of the…