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Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-123-2026
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10 Feb 2026
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The productivity of necropolitics

Timo Dorsch

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This analysis addresses the question of the role of violence in maximizing capitalist profits in Latin America. It reveals that violence is not a consequence of personal brutality but rather a structural component of a very specific form of labour. The labour carried out through violence, and the human bodies that endure it, form a mode of production that is more similar to what we are familiar with than we usually realize. Nonetheless, even here, resistance is possible.
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