RT journal article
T1 Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration
A1 Rosa Macías, Tomás de la
A1 Berrocoso Domínguez, Esther María
A1 Scorza, F.A.
A2 Neurociencias
K1 Death
K1 Mortality
K1 Necropolitics
K1 Neurodegenerative diseases
AB Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent increase in their prevalence. Characterized as progressive, chronic and debilitating, they often result in higher mortality rates compared with the general population. Research agendas and biomedical technologies are shaped by power relations, ultimately affecting patient wellbeing and care. Drawing on the concepts of bio- and necropolitics, introduced by philosophers Foucault and Mbembe, respectively, this perspective examines the interplay between the territoriality and governmentality around demographic ageing, ND and death, focussing on knowledge production as a dispositif of power by highlighting the marginal role that the phenomenon of mortality plays in the ND research landscape. We propose a shift into acknowledging the coloniality of knowledge and embracing its situatedness to attain knowledge ‘from death’, understood as an epistemic position from which novel approaches and practices could emerge.
PB Springer
SN 1573-076X
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33724
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33724
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-may-2026