Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

THEMATIC

Session 083: Necropolitics: The Death Worlds of Drug Wars
Room: Hemon

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College

Discussant: R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan University

Description: 

Whether because of the role of states or of nonstate armed actors, the contemporary world is afflicted by what Achille Mbembé calls "death worlds," “new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of the living dead.” The papers on this panel will discuss the death worlds associated with the war on drugs in Mexico, the Philippines, Central America and the United States.

Papers:

“The Collateral Damage of Mexico’s Drug War,” Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College

“Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University

“The Role of the Drug Trade in Refugee Flows from Central America,” Leisy J. Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles

“Death by Politics: Three Counties in the U.S. and Their Approach to the Opioid Crisis,” Gabreélla Friday, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University and Nilüfer Akalin, Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University

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