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The different death practices that Mexican drug cartels have been using for the last two decades and their reproduction in everyday social spheres, as well as their ties to the State, challenge current theoretical frameworks. We propose an explanation of this phenomenon, but we do not resort to the failed or weak State hypothesis, hoping to overcome the problems posed by those accounts. In this paper, we attempt to apply the necropractices from the immunitarian reading of biopolitics of Roberto Esposito, while radicalizing it to be able to attribute epistemic responsibilities for the proliferation and reproduction of the knowledge of death that has reached the whole of the social.
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Muñiz, R., Vilchis, R. Karyorrhexis of Sovereignty: Necropolitization of Immunity. Crit Crim 31, 775–791 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09697-6
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