Achille Mbembe
Professor, Comparative Literature
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., Universite de Paris I--Pantheon Sorbonne, 1989, History
D.E.A. (Political Science), Institut d'etudes politiques, Paris, 1996
D.E.A. (Political Science), Institut d'etudes politiques, Paris, 1996
University of California, Irvine
300 Murray Krieger Hall
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697
300 Murray Krieger Hall
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Postcolonialism; African society and culture; race and identity.
Publications
Books:
On the Postcolony. 2000. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
On Private Indirect Government. Dakar: Codesria, 2000.
La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920-1960)
Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie. Paris: Karthala, 1996.
Co-author, Le politique par le bas: Contribution a une problematique de la democratie en Afrique noire. Paris: Karthala, 1991.
Afriques indociles. Christianisme, pouvoir et Etat en societe postcoloniale. Paris: Karthala, 1988.
Les jeunes et l'ordre politique en Afrique noire. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.
Recent Book Chapters:
"Sovereignty as a Form of Expenditure." Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Ed. Hansen and Stepputat. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005. 1648-1676.
"La Republique et l'impense de la 'race'." La fracture coloniale: La societe francaise au prisme de l'heritage colonial. Ed. Blanchard, Bancel, and Lemaire. Paris: La Decouverte, 2005. 139-153.
"A la lisiere du monde. Frontieres, territorialite et souverainete en Afrique." Le territoire est mort. Vive les territoires! Ed. Antheaume and Giraut. Paris: IRD Editions, 2005. 47-78.
Selected Recent Articles:
"Necropolitique." Raisons Politiques 21 (2006): 29-60.
"Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds." Politique africaine 100 (2005): 71-91.
"Aesthetics of Superfluity." Public Culture 16:3 (2004): 373-405.
"Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola." Research in African Literatures 34:4 (2003): 1-26.
On the Postcolony. 2000. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
On Private Indirect Government. Dakar: Codesria, 2000.
La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920-1960)
Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie. Paris: Karthala, 1996.
Co-author, Le politique par le bas: Contribution a une problematique de la democratie en Afrique noire. Paris: Karthala, 1991.
Afriques indociles. Christianisme, pouvoir et Etat en societe postcoloniale. Paris: Karthala, 1988.
Les jeunes et l'ordre politique en Afrique noire. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.
Recent Book Chapters:
"Sovereignty as a Form of Expenditure." Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Ed. Hansen and Stepputat. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005. 1648-1676.
"La Republique et l'impense de la 'race'." La fracture coloniale: La societe francaise au prisme de l'heritage colonial. Ed. Blanchard, Bancel, and Lemaire. Paris: La Decouverte, 2005. 139-153.
"A la lisiere du monde. Frontieres, territorialite et souverainete en Afrique." Le territoire est mort. Vive les territoires! Ed. Antheaume and Giraut. Paris: IRD Editions, 2005. 47-78.
Selected Recent Articles:
"Necropolitique." Raisons Politiques 21 (2006): 29-60.
"Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds." Politique africaine 100 (2005): 71-91.
"Aesthetics of Superfluity." Public Culture 16:3 (2004): 373-405.
"Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola." Research in African Literatures 34:4 (2003): 1-26.
Grants
<B>Selected Grants:</B>
Bill Venter/Altron Award (2006); European Programme for Reconstruction and Development (With Deborah Posel, 2004); AIRE-Developpement, France (2001); McArthur Foundation Grant (1995); Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. (1992); Ford Foundation Grant (1986).
Other Experience
Research professor in History and Politics
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 2003
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 2003
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Last updated
11/13/2007
11/13/2007