Necropolitics / Achille Mbembe
By: Mbembe, Achille.
Material type:
TextSeries: Theory in Forms.Publisher: Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2019.Edition: First Edition.Description: viii, 213 p.ISBN: 978-1-4780-0651-0; 89.DDC classification: 320.01 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library Book Cart | 320.01 MBE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | Reference only | N166 |
In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side-what he calls its "nocturnal body" which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations and violence that drove colonialism.
Politics, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Theory, Political Theory, Decolonization, Postcolonialism, Ethnic Violence, Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon
There are no comments on this title.