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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 122–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Mbembe ( 2003 ) observes the continued operation of necropolitics in the contemporary postcolony, against the claim (Foucauldian but not necessarily held by Foucault) that sovereign power has receded in modernity. Necropolitics, here, describes the generalized instrumentalization and material destruction...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
... affirmation and violence—even death—is always present. Necropolitics is “the work of death,” insofar as it is about the exercise of sovereignty and the power of this sovereignty to decide the fate of others, to let live or let die. Achille Mbembe’s ( 2003 : 17) concept of necropolitics builds on Michel...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 140–144.
Published: 01 March 2010
...
Metropolis” (2004 [16:3 Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall critique
accounts of mobility in the European city that presuppose a “spatial
and temporal openness” that determines what they refer to as “the en-
gineering of certainty” (361). A signifi cant body of work that privileges
itineraries...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
...
Metropolis” (2004 [16:3 Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall critique
accounts of mobility in the European city that presuppose a “spatial
and temporal openness” that determines what they refer to as “the en-
gineering of certainty” (361). A signifi cant body of work that privileges
itineraries...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Rios Marcela . 2010 . “ Preface: Feminist Keys for Understanding Feminicide .” In Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas , edited by Fregoso Rosa-Linda and Bejarano Cynthia , xi – xxviii . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Mbembe Achille . 2003 . “ Necropolitics...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 449–453.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the twentieth century. Taking its primary theoretical force from, yet also extending, Michel Foucault’s and Achille Mbembe’s notions of biopolitics and necropolitics , The Politics of Rightful Killing analyzes Weblogistan—that is, the Iranian blogosphere “figured [by many bloggers] as a microcosm...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and Stepputat 2005 ; Mbembe 2005 ). As the medicolegal projects of the state illustrate in this article, these sovereign forms expose the bodies of sex/gender transgressive citizens to violent “economies of touch” (Ahmed 2000 , 49) and at the same time constitute an integral element of state biopolitics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 54–80.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the operation of biopower in the “late model of colonial
occupation,” Achille Mbembe (2003, 27) proposes “necropower,” argu-
ing that “the most accomplished form of necropower is the continued
colonial occupation of Palestine.”
This is a powerful statement and particularly compelling when...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 401–422.
Published: 01 November 2023
... affects the police provides an understanding of what is transgressive and in what ways. Achille Mbembe’s ( 2003 ) necropolitics is a useful concept for situating racial capitalism and postcolonial nation-state building as a framework to understand sovereignty. However, necropolitics and its...
