Necropolitics
Mbembe, Achille / Crisden, Sean![Necropolitics](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/457/45791877/CHSBZCOP0345791877.jpg)
In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side--what he calls its nocturnal body--which is based on the des...