Engendered by corporate capital and the neoliberal state, ineligibility to personhood refers to the state of being legally recognized as rightless, located in the space of social death where demands for humanity are ultimately disempowering because they can be interpreted only by asking to be given something sacred in return for nothing at all.
LISA MARIE CACHO,
SOCIAL DEATH: RACIALIZED RIGHTLESSNESS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE UNPROTECTED