Achille Mbembe

Title

Achille Mbembe

Birth Date

1957

Birthplace

Centre, Cameroon

Primary Sources

Mbembe, A. (2020). Brutalism. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/brutalism

Mbembe, A. (2019). Future knowledges and their implications for the decolonisation project. In J. Jansen (ed.), Decolonisation in Universities: The Polictics of Knowledge, 239-254. Wits University Press.

Mbembe, A. (2019). Out of the dark night: Essays on decolonization. Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/out-of-the-dark-night/9780231160285

Mbembe, A. (2017). Critique of black reason. Duke University Press.

Mbembe, A., & Balakrishnan, S. (2016). Pan-African legacies, afropolitan futures. Transition: An International Review, (120), 28-37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/transition.120.1.04

Mbembe, A. (2016). Decolonizing the university:New directions. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 15(1), 29-45. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474022215618513

Mbembe, A. (2015). Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive. Public Lecture, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

Mbembe, A. (2014). Power and obscenity in the post-colonial period: the case of Cameroon. In J. Manor (ed.), Rethinking Third-World Politics, 166-182. Routledge. https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315845340-11&type=chapterpdf

Mbembe, A. (2006). On the postcolony: A brief response to critics. African identities, 4(2), 143-178. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725840600761096

Mbembé, J. A., & Meintjes, L. (2003). Necropolitics. Public culture, 15(1), 11-40. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/39984/summary

Mbembe, A. (2001). African modes of self-writing. Identity, culture and politics, 2(1), 1-39.

Mbembe, A. (2001). On the Postcolony. University of California Press.

Secondary Sources

Confavreux, J. (2022). Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe. Postcolonial Studies25(1), 128–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2050587

Bancel, N., Blanchard, P., & Thomas, D. (Eds.). (2017). The colonial legacy in France: fracture, rupture, and apartheid. Indiana University Press.

Sithole, T. (2014). Achille Mbembe: Subject, subjection, and subjectivity (Doctoral dissertation, University of South Africa).

Extra Resources

Mbembe, A (2021) Coloniality of Infrastructure, The Earthly Community  October eflux Architecture, Retrieved June 19, 2023. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/coloniality-infrastructure/410015/the-earthly-community/

Video: Achille Mbembe, Notes on Brutalism': Theory Culture & Society, Oct 2020. Accessed June 15, 2022 https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/video-achille-mbembe-notes-on-brutalism

Achille Mbembe: The Idea of a World Without Borders. (2019, February 11). The European Graduate School. Youtube. Accessed June 15, 2022. https://youtu.be/fLRpH5RRwhQ.

Bangstad, S. & Nilsen, T.T. (2019, September 5). Thoughts on the planetary: An interview with Achille Mbembe. New Frame. Accessed June 15, 2022. https://www.newframe.com/thoughts-on-the-planetary-an-interview-with-achille-mbembe/

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Citation

“Achille Mbembe,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed August 7, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/647.

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