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.
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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.
"Necropolitics," as translated by Libby Meintjes, Public Culture, Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 11-40
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
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
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Manuel CastellsAlso won Holberg International Memorial Prize
Richard SennettAlso won Gerda Henkel Prize
David ChalmersAlso won Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
Leszek KołakowskiAlso won Ernst Bloch Award
Eva IllouzAlso won Albertus-Magnus professorate
Victor KlempererAlso won Geschwister-Scholl-PreisAbout this person
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. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
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