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T1 A Necropolitical Approach to Waste Theory
T2 Una aproximación necropolítica a la Waste Theory
A1 Fernández Fernández, Martín
K1 Achille Mbembe
K1 Necropolitics
K1 human waste
K1 homo sacer
K1 nanoracism
K1 Waste Theory
AB Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics (2019) provides an innovative approach to dissect humanrelations in a contemporary world where an increasing number of people are deemed super-fluous and disposable under late capitalist logic. His book offers a genealogy of the currentstate of affairs from a post-Foucauldian perspective that centers on the notion of race andthe conception of sovereignty in Western liberal democracies. Rarely associated with WasteTheory, Mbembe articulates a necropolitical approach that complements Zygmunt Bau-man’s conception of “human waste” and Giorgio Agamben’s theorizations on the figureof the homo sacer. This article thus argues that Mbembe’s Necropolitics stands as a majorcontribution to the field of Waste Studies, in that it encloses a reflection on the racial Otheras human waste from a perspective that has not been sufficiently studied.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32176
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32176
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 17-jul-2024