sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
Article Title
Abstract
U.S. American law has been responsible for slavery and genocide through the use of imperial forces such as the military and policing since the beginning of the formation of this nation. In this essay, I present contemporary forms of State sanctioned violence that have ultimately increased the United States’ economy through rendering particular communities as disposable. I use examples of war, removal, occupation, and murder perpetrated by American law in order to disrupt the notion that law guarantees security. Furthermore; I build from Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and apply a more modern framework of necrocapitalism to further contextualize and problematize concurrent, violent injustices being executed through the weaponization of American law.
Publication Date
2018
Recommended Citation
Bissa, Gianna
(2018)
"Necrocapitalism and U.S. Imperialism: The Gulf War, Hurricane Katrina, Palestine, Gentrification, and Police,"
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies: Vol. 11, Article 11.
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https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol11/iss1/11
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