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A partir dos usos necropolíticos da memória escrava no Brasil pós-abolição, este ensaio analisa a figura do escravo como um ponto de singularização e acúmulo de uma série de tecnologias de poder (soberanas, pré, proto e... more
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      Cultural StudiesPolitical EconomyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical Theory
Im Jahr 2017 äußerte sich die antirassistische muslimische Aktivistin Linda Sarsour zum Antisemitismus in den USA wie folgt: "While anti-Semitism is something that impacts Jewish Americans, it's different than anti-black racism or... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesRace and RacismAntisemitism (Prejudice)Postmodernism
El pensador camerunés Achille Mbembe propone la noción de “necropolítica” para entender los procesos tanatopolíticos que se experimentan en los espacios periféricos del sistema-mundo moderno. Aunque el camerunés se apoya en las... more
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      ViolencePostcolonial StudiesPolitical Violence and TerrorismNecropolitics
O artigo aborda a gestão social e política capitalizada por interesses de mercado para tratar de seus efeitos que devastam as regras de convivência e as relações de alteridade. Destaca a lógica da guerra que favorece o estreitamento dos... more
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      Racismo y discriminaciónPsicanáliseSEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIALAchille Mbembe
Este ensayo, aborda la doble filiación del neologismo «colonialidad», tanto en Roselene Dousset-Leenhardt como en Aníbal Quijano (ambos mencionan que se trataría de un neologismo), abriendo un campo novedoso de investigación y... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesCritical Security StudiesNecropoliticsMapuche studies (ethnohistory and archaeology)
This article explores how the "Masters of Suspicion" can be used for understanding discipleship. From this, it queries into expanding this canon of masters to include decolonial thinkers. Resultantly, this article explores potential... more
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      ChristianityTheologyHermeneuticsLiberation Theology
In this paper, I address the issue of Community in Afrofuturism, based on the thought of Achille Mbembe, united under the label of ‘thought of the in-common’. According to the latter, if the need for community stems from a ‘will of life’,... more
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      CommunityAfrofuturismAchille Mbembe
A necropolítica travestida de narrativa religiosa no Brasil Por Thiago Teixeira Ao nos aproximarmos das compreensões do lósofo camaronês Achille Mbembe, enfrentamos uma relação que, a princípio, pode soar estranha, mas que, se estivermos... more
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      BiopoderCiências da ReligiãoAchille MbembeNecropolítica
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryEarly Modern HistoryHistory of Education
Tansi. Comment le présenter ?... Te présenter cher Sony, puisque, comme dit mon ami franco-camerounais acteur, chorégraphe et danseur – et pas seulement de la tête –, James Carlès, depuis le jour où nous avons commencé à te lire ensemble... more
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      DecolonializationDecolonial ThoughtJean RouchAnthropologie
Bolsonaro, e a pandemia, estabelecem a necropolítica triunfante no Brasil. Procuro distingur a necropolítica dos regimes de contrato social e mesmo do fascismo. Tento imaginar um combate geontológico ao regime necropolítico que se... more
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      NecropoliticsAchille MbembeElizabeth A. PovinelliHistória da morte
Em 2018, a Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro publicou dados referentes aos óbitos no interior das unidades prisionais (doravanteUPs) cariocas, devido à negligência dos serviços de saúde prestados. A partir do... more
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      NecropoliticsDireitoDireito PenalExecução Penal
Penúltimo livro publicado por Achille Mbembe, em 2017, "Políticas da Inimizade" contempla uma série de questões desenvolvidas pelo filósofo camaronês em seus livros anteriores, com a inflexão da abordagem nos termos da produção de um... more
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      Race and RacismNecropoliticsColonialismApartheid
This book opens with a meditation on how Africa's fate has long -since Antiquity -been decided from the outside. Its central thesis calls for the continent to move forward in a new way, locating itself at the centre. 'Se penser, se... more
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      AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesAfricaUbuntu
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      Postcolonial StudiesAchille Mbembe
De acordo com estudiosos de diversas áreas das Ciências Humanas, o Estado tem sofrido profundas transformações em seu papel perante a sociedade desde a segunda metade do século XX. Essas mudanças, fundadas em interesses neoliberais,... more
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      MarxismMarxist theoryMichel FoucaultJean Jaques Rousseau
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315229027-4/sacred-children-accursed-mothers-eyl%C3%BCl-fidan-ak%C4%B1nc%C4%B1 Hundreds of occupational deaths of workers, murders of women and trans people, suicide bombings, and... more
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      Performance StudiesNecropoliticsGiorgio AgambenProtest Movements
This paper will revisit my thesis to reformulate a new understanding of how essential the collaboration of Michel Foucault’s Biopolitics (2003) (which is not discussed in my thesis) is to a (re)conceptualization of necropolitics,... more
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      SociologyBlack Studies Or African American StudiesPolitical EconomyEducation
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
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      African PhilosophyPostmodernismNegritudeBrutalism
Capítulo de Livro / Book caphter How to mention: LEMOS, Flávia C. S.; DE FREITAS, Felipe Sampaio; GALINDO, Dolores. "Biopolítica, necropolítica e a pandemia do coronavírus. Notas analíticas sobre o enxame viral." In. DA CRUZ, Lílian... more
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      NecropoliticsMichel FoucaultPolíticas PúblicasBiopower and Biopolitics
From Lampedusa in Italy to Calais in France, a constellation of camps has spread across the continent. With the Mediterranean migration crisis continuing to unleash privation and mortality on the bodies of countless migrants, the camp is... more
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      SociologyHuman GeographyPolitical Geography and GeopoliticsMobility/Mobilities
A publicação do livro Crítica da Razão Negra de Achille Mbembe 448 contribui para a discussão contemporânea da Filosofia Africana, não somente a este eixo filosófico, mas à própria atividade filosófica. Isto se deve em grande parte,... more
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      African StudiesRace and RacismFilosofía africanaAchille Mbembe
Paper given at the Germany's Memory Mainstream conference held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research in London on 11 September 2020. Please note this is as yet unpublished (and indeed underdeveloped) so I would be grateful if you... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesMemory StudiesCommemoration and MemoryHolocaust
This essay analyses the "Berliner Requiem", a "secular cantata" by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht premiered in 1929, as an engagement with what Achille Mbembe has described as "necropolitics", also taking into account earlier concepts... more
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      MusicMusicologyDeath StudiesHerbert Marcuse
Comprendre les tensions et les conflits qui traversent le monde, dans les relations entre les peuples et les États, entre les gouvernants et les gouvernés, mais aussi dans l’émergence de nouvelles formes de pouvoir et de mobilisation ;... more
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      Political SociologyAnthropologyIndigenous StudiesIndigenous or Aboriginal Studies
Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving together contemporary and critical... more
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      Critical TheoryNecropoliticsTurkish and Middle East StudiesGiorgio Agamben
20 Here we could draw on how Dana Luciano extends the temporal dimension of the Foucauldian model of power relations in disciplinary societies to what she calls "chronobiopolitics" or the "sexual arrangement of the time of life," to which... more
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      Political PhilosophyPolitical TheoryPostcolonial StudiesCybernetics
This essay meets the spatial turn in postcolonial studies in examining the representations of the contested space of the nation during and after the war in Sri Lanka in the work of Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Romesh Gunesekera. In their... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesSpace and PlaceNeoliberalismEthnic Conflict
The paper engages in an examination of the televisual representations of blackness as a spectrum of lived experiences rather than as a stable monolithic identity in the context of the African-American community in the United States.... more
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      Critical Race StudiesCultural TheoryU.S. Television StudiesAchille Mbembe
Slides apresentados no evento Sábado Filosófico, uma atividade anual da Escola de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Polivalente Modelo de Fortaleza, no qual o tema central foi "Diálogos sobre o enfrentamento ao racismo estrutural: no chão da... more
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      Michel FoucaultAchille MbembeMovimento Negro
The idea that there is an aftermath to colonial governmentality is a claim that initiates this collection as a problematic to be explored and not a conclusion settled in advance. The project of unsettling the assumption of an aftermath,... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesGovernmentalityMemory StudiesCultural Memory
A partir do episódio de violência dirigida a Valéria Lúcia dos Santos, advogada, mulher, negra impedida de levar adiante seu trabalho por uma juíza leiga e, em seguida, algemada no 3º Juizado Especial Cível de Duque de Caxias-RJ, Rogério... more
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      Discourse AnalysisLouis AlthusserBlack feminismDiaspora Studies
Famous, appreciated and read on all continents, Achille Mbembe is one of the principal pillar of postcolonial studies, constantly providing content and guidance for social scientists and critical theorists. Eleven years after the launch... more
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      African StudiesPostcolonial StudiesAchille MbembeColonialism and Imperialism
El presente libro surgió de una triple coincidencia de los autores en el I Coloquio Internacional de Biopolítica organizado por la UNIPE en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, en septiembre de 2011. La primera coincidencia fue... more
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      Sociology of ViolenceViolencePolitical Violence and TerrorismNecropolitics
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      HegelCaribbean StudiesAgambenFrench and Francophone Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, New World Studies, Gender and Women Studies
This article considers the uptake of Achille Mbembe's article 'Provisional notes on the postcolony' (1992), the book De la Postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporain (2000) and its translated version, On... more
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      African StudiesPostcolonial StudiesAchille MbembeDR Congo
« Critique de la raison nègre » de A. Mbembe m'a permis de cheminer entre sociologie et histoire en me donnant des outils pour penser la « situation » postcoloniale et la manière dont elle module mon positionnement en tant que chercheuse.... more
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      Globalization And Postcolonial StudiesMigration StudiesDecolonial ThoughtAfrique
This lecture was originally delivered in Guayaquil in July 2019. An abridged version of the lecture was published in Siegfried Zielinski and Charles Merewether (eds), Art in the 21st Century: Reflections and Provocations (Osage... more
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      PhilosophyAestheticsPostcolonial StudiesContinental Philosophy
In his lectures in 1975-1976, Michel Foucault conceptualised the inclination to commit murders in political circumstances, and delineated it as ‘political death’ (2003).1 Such killings encompass both corporeal and psychological execution... more
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      SociologyDramaRacismMichel Foucault
International repatriations of colonial human remains have generated numerous questions regarding the status of indigenous communities, the responsibility of museums, and the importance of retrieving the histories... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesHuman Remains (Anthropology)Cultural AnthropologyMaster's Thesis
Postcolonial and poststructuralist antiracist theoretical approaches are gaining increasing influence at universities, in the political and cultural spheres, and in social movements worldwide. However, the picture that prominent... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesRace and RacismAntisemitism (Prejudice)Racism
Cuando iniciamos el proyecto de este libro, nos dimos cuenta de que, en los países con un pasado colonial, la violencia se dice de muchas formas, las cuales como carne y cicatriz han quedado inscritas, tanto en el registro histórico como... more
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      GovernmentalityRace and RacismNecropoliticsColonialism
La plupart des auteurs partis d’Afrique se sont posés comme migrants avant de s’insérer comme écrivains dans leur société d’accueil. Ils sont toujours reçus comme : migrants professionnels (Tahar ben Jelloun s’est installé en France pour... more
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      Creative WritingAfrican StudiesFrench LiteratureSocial Sciences
How can postcolonial Europe be characterized? It is from this fundamental question that others spring up, like a rhizome. In the following essay, I try to answer this question by focusing on a specific time and space: postcolonial... more
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      Film StudiesPostcolonial StudiesNecropoliticsPolitical Violence
The paper develops an immanent critique of the postcolonial critique of basic aesthetic categories like music
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      MusicPhilosophyAestheticsPostcolonial Studies
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      SecurityAfricaNecropoliticsColonialism
The reality that has been presented in rap music and its celebrity culture has always been connected with two extremes: the reality of the " thug " life of the streets on the one hand and with a specific sort of " American Dream " reality... more
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      Critical TheoryMarxismPostcolonial StudiesPoststructuralism
Este artículo busca responder la pregunta de si la polarización en los objetivos de la biopolítica (administrar la vida y construir estilos de vida) y la necropolítica (administrar la muerte y destruir hábitats y pueblos) hace a estos... more
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      Michel FoucaultMigraciónBiopolíticaAchille Mbembe
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      NecropoliticsCosmopolitanismMichel FoucaultBiopolitics