Necropolitics, Gaza, and the limits of theory
Abstract
We would like to thank Alexander A. Dunlap for his generous engagement with our article on necropolitics and geography (Peters et al 2025).His reflections on positionality and the varying intensities and scales of necropolitics resonate strongly with our own concerns.Likewise, we share his conviction that necropolitics cannot be reduced to death alone, but must be understood as part of a wider web of slow, fast, and injurious harms, intimately bound to the operations of extractive states and capitalism (Puar 2017; Jones 2023).Yet despite many valid critiques of how conceptually capacious necropolitics has become, as we wrote in our original piece: "There is a real danger in underplaying the reality of both death and death-in-life for so many and in this sense it is vital that we do not theorise away the politics from necropolitics" (Peters et al., 2025: 479).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Health and Conflict Studies
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 261–263
- Publication date
- 4 January 2026
- Language
- EN