Published February 15, 2026
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Necropolitics and Death-world in William Delisle Hay's Doom of the Great City
Authors/Creators
- 1. Ph.D. Research Scholar, School of Liberal Studies, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Description
Abstract: Harry Harrison’s Deathworld, a 1960 novel imagined a world where humans had to fight death at every turn for survival. The concept of necropolitics views such exposure to death as a form of control. Taking inspiration from these works, an attempt is made here to see how ecological degradation similarly fashions a death-world for humans which takes away their autonomy. It thus underlines the urgency for rethinking human to nature and human to human interactions.
Keywords: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Death-world, sovereignty, Ecocriticism, social ecology