Necroterritorialization in the Narrated Cities of Mexico-United States Border

Abstract

This article aims to examine the phenomenon of necroterritorialization— based on notions such as necropolitics, state of exception, and gore capitalism—as a spatial theme in the narrated border cities in works that focus on the most important cities of the northern border of Mexico, such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Monterrey. It is considered that necroterritorialization is one of the most recurrent themes in the urban literature of the turn of the century, due to thematic axes that persist in the cities of the border such as mass crimes, omnipresent violence and the drug trafficking business