2021
DOI: 10.1177/26330024211007864
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From carceral punitivism to systematic killing: The necropolitics of policing in post-Chávez Venezuela

Abstract: Since 2017, state security forces in Venezuela have been responsible for over 20% of violent deaths in the country. This represents an unprecedented period of state repression in the country’s history that demands examination. In this article, we argue that in order to understand the recent increase in violent deaths in Venezuela during the post-Chávez period, we must place at the center of our analysis the discourses and practices of an extremely privileged actor, the state, in the context of the collapse of … Show more

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“…If Vivaldo walks down the corner and gets a cop, he garners the efficient extermination machinery of the white American state. This ever-present possibility becomes a prescient recognition that it is not the state’s reproductive capacity, or its ability to “let live,” that is the basis of governance (Hanson & Zubillaga, 2021, p. 7). For Vivaldo and like-minded white Americans, the practice of killing “disposable populations” is an essential resource for the white American state to maintain its socio-economic and political power and guarantee sovereignty.…”
Section: Difference Division and Prescience: Calibrating The Polemics...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If Vivaldo walks down the corner and gets a cop, he garners the efficient extermination machinery of the white American state. This ever-present possibility becomes a prescient recognition that it is not the state’s reproductive capacity, or its ability to “let live,” that is the basis of governance (Hanson & Zubillaga, 2021, p. 7). For Vivaldo and like-minded white Americans, the practice of killing “disposable populations” is an essential resource for the white American state to maintain its socio-economic and political power and guarantee sovereignty.…”
Section: Difference Division and Prescience: Calibrating The Polemics...mentioning
confidence: 99%