Achille Mbembé (1 ene 1957 año – 18 h 21 m, 25 jun 2025 año)
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About:
- Camaroonian, PhD (history) at Sorbonne and has taught at Columbia, Yale, UC Berkeley, Harvard, U Penn, and Duke, & is currently at the U of Witwatersrand in South Africa
- heavily influenced by Franz Fanon and Michel Foucault
- philosopher, historian, and political theorist known for his work on postcolonialism, African studies, politics, and race theory
Major Works
- On the Postcolony (2001)
- Necropolitics (2003, essay; expanded to a book in 2019)
- Critique of Black Reason (2013; English translation in 2017)
- "The Politics of Enmity" (2016, essay)
Contributions
- Concept of Necropolitics
- Political Anthropology of Enmity and Exclusion
Critiques
- the complexity of his prose makes it difficult for non-specialists to engage with his theories
- lack of attention to gender, overemphasis on colonial histories, lack of practical solutions
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1 ene 1957 año
18 h 21 m, 25 jun 2025 año
~ 68 years