5 Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization 1
6. PART I. Documenting the Living Dead
7. 1 Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Alberto Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 33
8. 2 Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox 68
9. 3 Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera 96
10. PART II. Imagining the Living Dead
11. 4 Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy 125
12. 5 Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons 150
13. Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South” 180
14. Notes 191
15. Bibliography 231
16. Index 245