Trans Necropolitics: Interrelationships between Necropolitics and Biopower

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The authors focus on the interrelationships between necropolitics and biopower. They emphasize the concepts of trans vitality and trans death. They outline how trans death is inscribed within contemporary biopolitical regimes, particularly concerning the expansion of the medical model of transgenderism. It argues that trans death is a form of necropolitics par excellence. It works through the biopolitical regulation and control of trans bodies, identities, and experiences. The modernist social imaginary of the afterlife is a political construct that reinforces and legitimizes necropolitical regimes (Snorton & Haritaworn, 2013). The paper argues that while trans death is a product of biopower, it also provides a way to disrupt necropolitical regimes of control. Trans vitality and the afterlife are thus important concepts for trans resistance against necropolitical violence and biopolitics. Trans people must be understood as part of the fabric of life. The authors explore how necropolitics has influenced the discursive production of trans death and sexuality, considering how these ideas have shaped society's perceptions of what it means to be trans.
Its theoretical argument focuses on Achille Mbembe's issue of necropolitics. It is argued that Mbembe's concept of necropolitics provides the key to understanding how the biopolitical management of life links to the control and regulation of death. The authors use Mbembe's work as a point of reference for theorizing the relationship between biopower and necropolitics (Snorton & Haritaworn, 2013). The afterlife concept is important for understanding the complex interrelationships...