Considering a spectrum of necropolitical harms: geographies of asylum in Nottingham, Calais and beyondTools Peters, Freya (2024) Considering a spectrum of necropolitical harms: geographies of asylum in Nottingham, Calais and beyond. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractThis thesis explores the experiences of violence for refugees and asylum seekers in Nottingham and Calais and beyond. I situate these experiences of violence in relation to Mbembe’s (2003) postcolonial theory of necropolitics. I argue that necropolitics is a suitable framework to view this violence because the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers involve harms which can be considered either outright killing or being kept “alive but in a state of injury” (Mbembe, 2003:21). These harms occur as an expression of necropower wielded by the sovereign in ways which reflect colonial power relations and hierarchical conceptions of race. I argue that there is value in considering necropolitics as a spectrum of harms which range in temporality and visibility (Mayblin, 2019a). The contribution that this thesis makes is that I argue there is a need to consider how necropolitical harms across this spectrum combine over the course of a lifetime rather than viewing them each in isolation.
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