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Society: "Society" refers to a group of individuals living together in a community, sharing common norms, values, and institutions, and often governed by established rules or laws. It encompasses social interactions, relationships, and collective organization within a given geographical or cultural context. See also Community, Culture, State, Norms, Values, Institutions.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Achille Mbembe on Society - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 920
Society/Mbembe/Herb: The new coercive regimes of postcolonial command are characterized by a particular vulgarity. To show this, Mbembe chooses his country of origin, Cameroon, as a prominent example. Authors such as Bakhtin, Bhabba, Elias, Freud, Lacan and Foucault provide the theoretical background. In contrast, approaches of classical criticism of power with its binary categories of explanation (resistance/passivity, subjection/empowerment, etc.) are left out. For Mbembe they thwart an adequate understanding of the paradoxical structure of postcolonial power relations. These can only be grasped by understanding the mobility, promiscuity and obscenity of the relationship between those in power and those subject to it. The postcolony thereby turns out to be a stage of "homo ludens" (Mbembe 2016(1),174), a "chaotic plurality with an inner coherence" (170).
Postcolony/Mbembe: [consists] not of one, but of a multitude of public spaces, each of which is equipped with its own logic, which does not prevent them from interweaving in specific places and forcing the postcolonized to zigzag, to haggle. Incidentally, the postcolonized person has a unique ability to create not just one
Brocker I 921
identity, but several, all of which are ephemeral, so they must be constantly renegotiated" (173 f.). It is about the specific disguise of the naked command, i.e. the style in which relationships between commanders and command recipients are staged.
>Tyranny/Mbembe
, >Simulacrum/Membe.

1. Achille Mbembe, De la postcolonie. Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine, Paris 2000. Dt.: Achille Mbembe, Postkolonie. Zur politischen Vorstellungskraft im Afrika der Gegenwart, Wien/Berlin 2016

Karlfriedrich Herb, „Achille Mbembe, Postkolonie (2000)“. In: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Mbembe, Achille
Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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