Appropriation of Micropolitics by the Neoliberal States: A Theoretical Intervention

Mohammad Raihan Sharif
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Mohammad Raihan Sharif: Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 7, 226-232

Abstract: The article focuses on the reception of micropolitics by the neoliberal nation states. It argues that the neoliberal states in recent times have combined strategies and tactics to maintain their grip on their citizens. It is a theoretical intervention in the sense that while Scott (2008) and Certeau (2011) identify micropolitics in the everyday life of the poor and the weak, the present chapter argues that even the neoliberal states apply micropolitics and tactics. In fact, only within this combination, within dialectical relations between strategies and tactics, any tactic is worth pursuing—an issue this paper foregrounds. Drawing upon Mbembe’s ideas, this chapter focuses on the contexts of necrocapitalism within which the neoliberal states deploy tactics. This chapter also identifies differentiation—how the neoliberal state keeps its citizens divided and separated

Date: 2022
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