@article{ref1,
title="Necropolitics in the "Compassionate" City: Care/Brutality in San Francisco",
journal="Medical anthropology",
year="2020",
author="Lopez, Andrea M.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="In San Francisco in the United States, the urban precariat is governed simultaneously by two logics of intervention that are highly contradictory: compassion and brutality. In this article, I explore the contours of violence embedded in humanitarian governance for unstably housed/homeless women who use drugs as they navigate care systems for their health and well-being. I use Mbembe's concept of necropolitics to examine how women embody an <i>anticipation</i> of death, at the same time as they manage their risk for <i>actual</i> death in engagements with care in a city paradoxically known for its progressive, compassionate principles of intervention for those who are most marginalized.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-9740",
doi="10.1080/01459740.2020.1753046",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1753046"
}