Meanings
- uncountableSecurity (social order) obtained via the mass killing or mass death (from the spread of preventable disease, etc) of otherized people, especially people of other racial groups.
[see title] […] This chapter introduces and explains the concept of necrosecurity, that is, the process in which life is secured through the death of the racialized other.
2021, Brenda Gisela Garcia Flores, The emergence of necrosecurity: On the extra-legality of the rule of law and the death of the willful subject, in Necropower in North America: The legal spatialization of disposability and lucrative death2 more examples
The concept of necrosecurity captures how necropower governmentalization becomes embedded within everyday life. While extraction empires like Canada and the United States impose security, humanitarian aid, or corporate interventions (the difference between the three are little to none) in the name of the rule of law and its liberal accolades, necrosecurity examines how these practices mold themselves into ordinary acceptance of the degradation and eventual perishing of life.
2021 June 25, Ariadna Estévez, Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 155On the cultural dynamics of "necrosecurity" see Lincoln who explores "the cultural idea that mass death among less grievable subjects plays an essential role in maintaining social welfare and public order".
2022 December 19, Sigurd Bergmann, Martin Lindström, Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
Origin
From necro- + security. Coined by Brenda Gisela Garcia Flores circa 2021.
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