22: Punishment and the Border Pt. 2

Question 1

sovereignty

Answer 1

ultimate expression of power

what entity X has authority to govern or to control entity Y in any sort of context

Question 2

ultimate realisation or exercise of sovereign power

Answer 2

sovereign’s decision of who is to be killed and who is to be left alive

Question 3

necropolitics

Answer 3

Mbembe extended Foucault’s conception of sovereignty to encompasss necropolitics

power to determine how certain people must live and how others must die

Question 4

necroviolence

Answer 4

De Leon extends necropolitics to encompass necroviolence

violence performed and produced through the specific treatment of corpses that is perceived to be offensive, sacrilegious or inhumane by the perptrator, the victim or both

continuation of violence past the cessation of biological life

Question 5

functions/purposes of necroviolence

Answer 5

alienate victims of state violence from social contact

often aimed at the victim’s spirit, soul or afterlife