Challenges conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of life through the lens of life, not death. Arguing that the "letting die" element of biopolitics has been overemphasized, Arif zeros in on "making live," highlighting the means and forms of life configured in the aftermath--or afterlives--of violent events in contexts of law, justice, community, and identity. --From publisher description.

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