English Dictionary

necropolitics

名詞

不可算名詞

The relationship between sovereignty and power over life and death.

日本語の意味

生命と死に対する支配、つまり権力が個人の生死を決定する関係性を示す概念 / 主権と生命・死の管理の相互作用、またはその行使の形態 / 国家や権力者が死亡の管理や統制を通じて政治的支配を実現する状況を指す

The government's handling of the refugee crisis became a clear example of necropolitics, as decisions effectively determined who would live and who would die.

政府の難民危機への対応は、主権と生と死に対する権力の関係の明確な例となり、その決定は事実上誰が生き、誰が死ぬかを決定した。

意味（1）

The relationship between sovereignty and power over life and death.

The idea of a supreme power which monopolizes legitimate violence is as much about limiting and restraining 'necropolitics' as it is about engaging in it.