Cameroonian historian, postcolonial theorist and political scientist
Achille Mbembe
Born
1957 (age 66–67)
Otélé, French Cameroon
Nationality
Cameroonian
Spouse
Sarah Nuttall
Awards
Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
Academic background
Alma mater
Sorbonne Instituts d'études politiques
Influences
Jean-Marc Ela, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Bernard Stiegler, Hannah Arendt
Academic work
Institutions
University of the Witwatersrand, Duke University
Main interests
history, political science
Notable ideas
Necropolitics
Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe (/əmˈbɛmbeɪ/; born 1957), is a Cameroonian historian, political theorist, and public intellectual who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and its consequences and is a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.[1][2]
^Achille Mbembe to deliver a second "Thinking Africa" Public Lecture Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Rhodes University, 5 July 2012
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essays by Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist AchilleMbembe. The book is Mbembe's most well-known work and explores questions of power and...
and how some must die. The deployment of necropolitics creates what AchilleMbembe calls deathworlds, or "new and unique forms of social existence in which...
earliest sources. One notable contributor to professional philosophy is AchilleMbembe. He interacts with a multitude of modern subjects, including thoughts...
self.” In his article “Decolonizing the University: New Directions”, AchilleMbembe discusses the limits placed on the decolonization efforts by the forces...
neocolonialism. Mafeje and AchilleMbembe disagreed about the concept of Afro-pessimism. In his book On the Postcolony, Mbembe criticised what he saw as...
various ways. The novelist Taiye Selasi and the political theorist AchilleMbembe are immediately associated with the coinage of the term and its fundamental...
South Africa. With her husband, AchilleMbembe, she has written about Johannesburg as an Afropolis, and Nuttall and Mbembe co-edited Johannesburg: The Elusive...
company Achille Marozzo (1484–1553), Italian fencing master AchilleMbembe (born 1957), Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist Achille Millien...
studies. Notable authors published by Duke University Press include AchilleMbembe, Donna Haraway, Lauren Berlant, Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, Jack...
Jackson C. L. R. James Robin Kelley Audre Lorde Katherine McKittrick AchilleMbembe Mao Zedong John Narayan Huey P. Newton Luke De Noronha. Cedric Robinson...
essay, and this paved the way for scholars such as Simon Gikandi and AchilleMbembe to "further develop" the term, Afropolitan, into a widely known and...
Collection at Wits University, retrieved 18 September 2019 "Cameroonian AchilleMbembe wins German book prize". The African Courier. 8 June 2015. Archived...
signed by more than one hundred personalities, including Angela Davis, AchilleMbembe, Thomas Piketty, Annie Ernaux, Eric Cantona, Judith Butler, Ken Loach...
that are also defined by anti-colonialism. Philosopher and scholar AchilleMbembe argues that post-colonialism is a contradictory term, because colonialism...
included Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Akerman, Pierre Alféri Judith Butler, AchilleMbembe, Avital Ronell, and Sandy Stone. Notable alumni and attendees have included...
larger ethics of personal and political transformation. According to AchilleMbembe this quality marks her interest in process as a perpetual state of becoming...
more mixed, and the book received strong criticism. He is described by AchilleMbembe as "one of the most talented of the new wave of French theory." He is...
"within a community of friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, AchilleMbembe, and Barbara Cassin." In an introduction to the December 2017 Women...
civilization, progress, development and market democracy." According to AchilleMbembe, decolonization of knowledge means contesting the hegemonic western...
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