ABSTRACT
The article highlights the shared technologies of power at work in the biopolitical governing of human mobility, and the management of ‘nature’ through shaping and preserving biodiversity. Reading three cases – the restoration of biodiversity of long-lost ecosystems in Chicago’s natural preserves, the EU biodiversity legislation for the management of alien invasive species, and recent changes in the management of diversity and migration in the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ in 2015 in Germany – the article illustrates how the notion of valued diversity inherently rests on the definition and devaluation of its Others, who are rendered disposable, harmful, and de facto killable. Necropolitics thus emerges as the inevitable underside of any biopolitical investment.
