This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in
how necropolitics as the administration of life and death is understood. The author locates
the forces of mortality directly on the body rather than as an object of government thereby
placing death in a politics of the everyday. This necropolitics is explored through testimonies
of individuals living in towns overrun by organized crime and resistance groups namely the
autodefensa movement that operate throughout Michoacán one of the most violent states in
Mexico. This volume studies how individuals and communities go on living not in spite of the
death that surrounds life but more disturbingly by attuning to it.
