This paper reviews the rapidly growing body of geographical work on necropolitics. We argue that thinking carefully and spatially with and about necropolitics is useful for analysing widespread and uneven racialised suffering, particularly relating to the environment and borders. However, we note and caution against a tendency towards the ‘necro-everything’ and the ‘everything-necro’, which can both overstate and understate the role of death, potentially depoliticising necropolitical analyses. We therefore argue that focus should be placed on Mbembe’s contrapuntal theorisation and that future research should foreground how the spatiality of necropolitics emerges from its engagement with race, coloniality, and resistance.
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