Achille Mbembe

Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist · Cameroon · On the map · Academics · Born 1957 · age 69

Joseph-Achille Mbembe is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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2024Holberg International Memorial PrizeAward2023Corresponding Fellow of the British AcademyAward2019Albertus-Magnus professorateAward2018Ernst Bloch AwardAwardGerda Henkel PrizeAward2015Geschwister-Scholl-PreisAward2014Honorary Doctor of Paris 8 UniversityAward2003“The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.”In their words"Necropolitics," as translated by Libby Meintjes, Public Culture, Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 11-40Read the whole statement

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The time of the world can no longer be conceived as a line. It is increasingly experienced as a concatenation of multiple temporalities.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-postcolony/paper]Mbembe discusses the changing nature of time, history, and modernity, arguing that, Own words
The colony is not merely a place; it is also a peculiar system of signs, a particular way of fabricating reality.
Mbembe examines the relationship between power, knowledge, and colonial rule, explaining how colonial systems shape both institutions and, Own words
To live under colonial occupation is to experience a permanent state of injury.
Mbembe explores the psychological, social, and political consequences of colonial domination and its enduring effects on individuals and, Own words