Alinhavos para refletir sobre os alcances necropolíticos na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This article discusses the concept of necropolitics, highlighting its importance and contributions to understanding its scope in contemporary Brazil. It is theoretically grounded in the notion of necropolitics, introduced by Achille Mbembe. To understand this notion, we utilized the ideas of biopower and biopolitics, developed by Michel Foucault. As an analytical strategy, we draw on several national studies that used the notion of necropolitics to consider the consequences of a policy of extermination operationalized by a dictatorial, oppressive, violent, genocidal, and, above all, racist governmentality. The results indicate that necropolitics does not work for everyone; there is a central matrix that links this large-scale production of deaths: the intersections between race and class.