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Necropolitics

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Necropolitics is the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die.

Necropolitics - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Use of power to dictate life and death Necropolitics is a sociopolitical theory of the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die. The deployment of necropolitics creates what Achille Mbembe calls deathworlds , or "new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to living conditions that confer upon them the status of the living dead." [ 1 ] Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony , was the first scholar to explore the term in depth in hi

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