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  • Necropolitics

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    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 ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Out of the Dark Night

    Essays on Decolonization

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Brutalism

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Necropolitics

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Translated by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Out of the Dark Night

    Essays on Decolonization

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • On private indirect government

    by Achille MBEMBE ...
    The aim of this study is to draw attention to the long time-scale of the developments currently taking place in Africa. This has been overshadowed by the brouhaha concerning phenomena that are mainly connected with the present moment (structural adjustment, transitions toward democracy, wars and conflicts, corruption, criminalization). This study is based on two hypotheses. The first is that of ... Read more

    $11.05 CAD

  • On the Postcolony

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series Book 41 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory.This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Globalization

    by Achille Mbembe, Philippe Rekacewicz, Andreas Huyssen, Boubacar Touré Mandémory ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Publishing from the South

    A Century of Wits University Press

    Edited by Sarah Nuttall, Isabel Hofmeyr ...
    In 2022 Wits University Press marked its centenary, making it the oldest, most established university press in sub-Saharan Africa. While in part modelled on scholarly publishers from the global North, it has had to contend with the constraints of working under global South conditions: marginalisation within the university, budgetary limitations, small local markets, unequal access to international ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Time

    Imagining African Becomings

    Edited by Achille Mbembe, Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series Critical South
    As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Apartheid Israel

    The Politics of an Analogy

    Edited by Sean Jacobs, Jon Soske ...
    In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD