Have You Heard of Necropolitics? -- Achille Mbembe

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Necropolitics is a book by Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist. In Necropolitics, Mbembe defines a style of politics, one that categorizes groups of people as superfluous or disposable. Mbembe challenges the traditional western binary between rational, peaceful political spaces, and chaotic and violent "natural" spaces. He argues that, in fact, supposedly peaceful states have long created and governed terribly violent political spaces like refugee camps or detention centers.
Mbembe's Necropolitics provides us with a challenging political theory for a number of reasons, not least of which is that the book forces us to grapple with the violent colonial histories of modern western democracies. According to Mbembe, the story of western liberal democracy is not simply about social contracts, and human rights; it's also about these violently policed spaces both within and outside of the social contract.
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