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Necropolitics

S. Doughan

2020.9.29Political Theology

DOI: 10.1080/1462317x.2020.1826093

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Achille Mbembe describes 'necropolitics' as subjugating life to death's power, reconfiguring resistance, sacrifice, and terror relations.

Abstract

Achille Mbembe describes “necropolitics” as “contemporary forms of subjugating life to the power of death […] [that] are deeply reconfiguring the relations between resistance, sacrifice, and terror...

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DOUGHAN, S. Necropolitics. Political Theology, 2020, 21: 754–756.