An essay tracing the origin of modern sovereignty to the right over life and death.
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Achille Mbembe
The argument most interestingly situates necropower and necropolitics within the experience and discourse of the colonial and post-colonial, arguing that the violent application of Western forms of sovereignty in the colony as an assertion over the the 'Other's' right to life/death.
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