Necropolitics, Gaza, and the limits of theory

Thom Davies et al.

Progress in Human Geography2026https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325251408092article
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We would like to thank Alexander A. Dunlap for his generous engagement with our article on necropolitics and geography (Peters et al 2025).His reflections on positionality and the varying intensities and scales of necropolitics resonate strongly with our own concerns.Likewise, we share his conviction that necropolitics cannot be reduced to death alone, but must be understood as part of a wider web of slow, fast, and injurious harms, intimately bound to the operations of extractive states and capitalism (Puar 2017; Jones 2023).Yet despite many valid critiques of how conceptually capacious necropolitics has become, as we wrote in our original piece: "There is a real danger in

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@article{thom2026,
  title        = {{Necropolitics, Gaza, and the limits of theory}},
  author       = {Thom Davies et al.},
  journal      = {Progress in Human Geography},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325251408092},
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