Vulnerable Life: Zombies, Global Biopolitics, and the Reproduction of Structural Violence

This essay offers an intervention in biopolitical theory—using the term “vulnerable life” to recalibrate discussions of how life is valued and violence is justified in the contemporary bioinsecurity regime. It reads the discursive structures that dehumanize and pathologize figures in U.S. zombie nar...

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Main Author: Steven Pokornowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-08-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/71