Death-worlds, Necropolitics and Decoloniality Colonial Negotiations in Mah
- Title
- Death-worlds, Necropolitics and Decoloniality Colonial Negotiations in Mah
- Creator
- Sivasankaran A.; Vijay S.
- Description
- The boundaries of sovereignty are mostly relegated to modern and late modern political thoughts that focus on biopolitical and democratic theories. This paper marks a shift of sovereign subjectivity to the interstitial spaces of life and death of the colonial subjects. Through the study of the necropolitics of colonial control in the erstwhile French colony of Mah as narrated in the novel On the Banks of the Mayyazhi, this paper argues that colonial subjectivity and the idea of sovereignty have decentred itself from the traditional notions of political control and violence to newer avenues of life and death. The perusal of the decolonial approach to necropolitics will examine how colonial logic has shaped the idea of sovereignty. 2024 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-59, No. 52, pp. 52-57.
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Coverage
- Sivasankaran A., Department of English, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Vijay S., Department of English, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 129976
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Sivasankaran A.; Vijay S., “Death-worlds, Necropolitics and Decoloniality Colonial Negotiations in Mah,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 27, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/12686.