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necrosecurity

necrosecurity noun: security (social order) obtained via the mass killing or mass death (from the spread of preventable disease, etc) of otherized people, especially people of other racial groups.

Noun

necrosecurity (uncountable)

  1. Security (social order) obtained via the mass killing or mass death (from the spread of preventable disease, etc) of otherized people, especially people of other racial groups.
    • [see title] […]
      This chapter introduces and explains the concept of necrosecurity, that is, the process in which life is secured through the death of the racialized other.2021, Brenda Gisela Garcia Flores, The emergence of necrosecurity: On the extra-legality of the rule of law and the death of the willful subject, in Necropower in North America: The legal...
    • The concept of necrosecurity captures how necropower governmentalization becomes embedded within everyday life. While extraction empires like Canada and the United States impose security, humanitarian aid, or corporate interventions (the difference between the three are little to none) in the name...2021 June 25, Ariadna Estévez, Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 155

Origin of necrosecurity

From necro- + security. Coined by Brenda Gisela Garcia Flores circa 2021.

Questions about necrosecurity

What does necrosecurity mean?
Necrosecurity means security (social order) obtained via the mass killing or mass death (from the spread of preventable disease, etc) of otherized people, especially people of other racial groups.
What part of speech is necrosecurity?
Necrosecurity is a noun.

Words near necrosecurity in the dictionary

  1. necroscopies
  2. necroscopy
  3. necrose
  4. necrosectomies
  5. necrosectomy
  6. necrosecurity
  7. necrosed
  8. necroses
  9. necrosing
  10. necrosis
  11. necrosmia

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