Genealogies of Nothing: Enforced Disappearances, Fable Lives, and Archives in Erasure
This article investigates the political impact of collective story-telling practices in the enforced disappearances from a Foucauldian perspective. I utilize two main theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, that of necropolitics, a kind of power that works on the management of death. On the other...
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2023-09-01
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This article investigates the political impact of collective story-telling practices in the enforced disappearances from a Foucauldian perspective. I utilize two main theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, that of necropolitics, a kind of power that works on the management of death. On the other hand, that of genealogy as a type of history that mobilizes subjugated knowledges. The first part situates these stories within the framework of genealogy: subjugated knowledges that are buried and disqualified as a part of the work of necropolitics. The second part argues that a Foucauldian genealogical approach to these stories is insufficient: necropolitical archives, when they testify to the work of power, remain incomplete at best and actively erase more often. The third part analyzes these stories as examples of critical fabulation. What is at stake in the insistence of the people searchers to tell their stories, I argue, is the collective emergence of another kind of fable – an act of fabulation in line with what Saidiya Hartman calls “critical fabulation,” which multiplies the possibilities of the present and the past by precisely telling stories of ‘nothing.’
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| spelling | doaj.art-91edf9ac96e44109b5e3da23138333052024-02-27T09:32:55ZengCopenhagen Business SchoolFoucault Studies1832-52032023-09-013410.22439/fs.i34.6938Genealogies of Nothing: Enforced Disappearances, Fable Lives, and Archives in ErasureEge Selin Islekel0Texas A&M University This article investigates the political impact of collective story-telling practices in the enforced disappearances from a Foucauldian perspective. I utilize two main theoretical frameworks: on the one hand, that of necropolitics, a kind of power that works on the management of death. On the other hand, that of genealogy as a type of history that mobilizes subjugated knowledges. The first part situates these stories within the framework of genealogy: subjugated knowledges that are buried and disqualified as a part of the work of necropolitics. The second part argues that a Foucauldian genealogical approach to these stories is insufficient: necropolitical archives, when they testify to the work of power, remain incomplete at best and actively erase more often. The third part analyzes these stories as examples of critical fabulation. What is at stake in the insistence of the people searchers to tell their stories, I argue, is the collective emergence of another kind of fable – an act of fabulation in line with what Saidiya Hartman calls “critical fabulation,” which multiplies the possibilities of the present and the past by precisely telling stories of ‘nothing.’ https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/6938NecropoliticsEnforced DiasappearanceArchivesCritical FabulationResistance |
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| title | Genealogies of Nothing: Enforced Disappearances, Fable Lives, and Archives in Erasure |
| title_full | Genealogies of Nothing: Enforced Disappearances, Fable Lives, and Archives in Erasure |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Genealogies of Nothing: Enforced Disappearances, Fable Lives, and Archives in Erasure |
| title_short | Genealogies of Nothing: Enforced Disappearances, Fable Lives, and Archives in Erasure |
| title_sort | genealogies of nothing enforced disappearances fable lives and archives in erasure |
| topic | Necropolitics Enforced Diasappearance Archives Critical Fabulation Resistance |
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