Carolina QuotesThe ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.
Achille Mbembe Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Necropolitics," as translated by Libby Meintjes, Public Culture, Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2003, pp. 11-40
- year
- 2003
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- pp. 11-40
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