EGE SELIN ISLEKEL is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is the coeditor of The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault (Northwestern University Press).

"Those who were disappeared into the arcana of the state, whose bodies were never properly buried, whose deaths were never truly grieved, they continue to haunt Turkey’s politics. In speaking of them, Ege Selin Islekel speaks for a republic’s suppressed conscience. With exemplary clarity, rigor, and passion, Islekel theorizes the colonial workings of a nightmarish power formation that grows by wielding loss and the resistances that emerge in the afterlives of absent death and improper burial. This is a superb example of critical theory from the Global South, one that stirs the mind and the heart at once."—Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Cruz "Based on a detailed study of practices of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Selin Islekel develops the concept of necrosovereignty as a distinct technology of power that emerges in the peripheries of the modern-colonial world system and operates by disallowing death. This haunting and hopeful book deftly elucidates the epistemic and spatial methods of necrosovereignty and identifies practices of epistemic-political resistance that refuse its enforced disappearances." —Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse University

• AcknowledgmentsPreludeIntroduction Part One: NecrosovereigntyChapter One: Absent DeathChapter Two: Disappearing Grief Chapter 3: Building Anew InterludePart Two: Nightmare KnowledgesChapter Four: The Epistemology of LossChapter Five: Stories of Nothing Chapter Six: Fables that Stir the Mind Coda  Notes Bibliography Index

EGE SELIN ISLEKEL is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is the coeditor of The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault (Northwestern University Press).

"Those who were disappeared into the arcana of the state, whose bodies were never properly buried, whose deaths were never truly grieved, they continue to haunt Turkey’s politics. In speaking of them, Ege Selin Islekel speaks for a republic’s suppressed conscience. With exemplary clarity, rigor, and passion, Islekel theorizes the colonial workings of a nightmarish power formation that grows by wielding loss and the resistances that emerge in the afterlives of absent death and improper burial. This is a superb example of critical theory from the Global South, one that stirs the mind and the heart at once."—Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Cruz "Based on a detailed study of practices of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Selin Islekel develops the concept of necrosovereignty as a distinct technology of power that emerges in the peripheries of the modern-colonial world system and operates by disallowing death. This haunting and hopeful book deftly elucidates the epistemic and spatial methods of necrosovereignty and identifies practices of epistemic-political resistance that refuse its enforced disappearances." —Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse University

• AcknowledgmentsPreludeIntroduction Part One: NecrosovereigntyChapter One: Absent DeathChapter Two: Disappearing Grief Chapter 3: Building Anew InterludePart Two: Nightmare KnowledgesChapter Four: The Epistemology of LossChapter Five: Stories of Nothing Chapter Six: Fables that Stir the Mind Coda  Notes Bibliography Index

EGE SELIN ISLEKEL is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is the coeditor of The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault (Northwestern University Press).

"Those who were disappeared into the arcana of the state, whose bodies were never properly buried, whose deaths were never truly grieved, they continue to haunt Turkey’s politics. In speaking of them, Ege Selin Islekel speaks for a republic’s suppressed conscience. With exemplary clarity, rigor, and passion, Islekel theorizes the colonial workings of a nightmarish power formation that grows by wielding loss and the resistances that emerge in the afterlives of absent death and improper burial. This is a superb example of critical theory from the Global South, one that stirs the mind and the heart at once."—Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Cruz "Based on a detailed study of practices of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Selin Islekel develops the concept of necrosovereignty as a distinct technology of power that emerges in the peripheries of the modern-colonial world system and operates by disallowing death. This haunting and hopeful book deftly elucidates the epistemic and spatial methods of necrosovereignty and identifies practices of epistemic-political resistance that refuse its enforced disappearances." —Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse University

• AcknowledgmentsPreludeIntroduction Part One: NecrosovereigntyChapter One: Absent DeathChapter Two: Disappearing Grief Chapter 3: Building Anew InterludePart Two: Nightmare KnowledgesChapter Four: The Epistemology of LossChapter Five: Stories of Nothing Chapter Six: Fables that Stir the Mind Coda  Notes Bibliography Index