TY - BOOK AU - Mbembe,Achille TI - Necropolitics T2 - Theory in Forms SN - 978-1-4780-0651-0 U1 - 320.01 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Durham and London PB - Duke University Press N1 - 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 ER -