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Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

Antonio Pele Critical Legal Thinking
Reviewer Pele says author Mbembe defines “necropolitics” “as the political making of spaces and subjectivities in an in-between of life and death.” Necropolitical practices have their origins in colonialism and the slave plantation.

Federalism Has Been a Disaster for the Working Class

Colin Gordon Jacobin
American federalism is often touted as a source of local democratic engagement, political innovation, and responsive public policy. But in practice, the American states have served as laboratories of autocracy and inequality.