O problema da raça entre a biopolítica e a necropolítica

Abstract

This work aims to problematize the notion of necropolitics, by the cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe. To this end, I will try to explain another very important previous notion for the elaboration of necropolitics, i.e., Michel Foucault's biopolitics. We’ll see that the problem of race articulated with biopolitics, proposed by the french philosopher in his course at the Collège de France (1975-1976), contributed greatly to Mbembe's analyses in his essay, as is evident from his most superficial reading. Starting from these useful critical analyses, I will try to highlight how the mortality of a specific group of people can be explained by a project of death outlined by sovereignty, which uses a racial standard to choose who can live and who must die. From necropolitics, I intend to clarify how the racial profiling or configuration was used both to dehumanize the racialized body and to turn it into a condition of enmity, from which life and death is decided.