Necropolitics, Gaza, and the limits of theory
Thom Davies et al.
What the paper says
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
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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