Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror
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Anti-black violence
Author_Alfred Frankowski
Carl Schmitt
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Colonialism
Ecocide
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Genocide
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hannah Arendt
Jacques Derrida
Memorialization
Political Violence
Racial terror
Sovereignty
Spectacle Terror Lynching
W. E. B. Du Bois
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- ISBN 9781399559430
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Alfred Frankowski critically examines how the spatiality of lynching violence continues as a politics and functions as an expression of political sovereignty.
He argues that terror spectacle lynching and the politics of racial terror are expressions of political sovereignty not only in that this violence was beyond the jurisdiction of law, but also in that it makes sense of the contemporary politics of the racial violence embedded in our sense of space and place.
Frankowski concludes that by focusing on lynching, the spatiality of racial terror makes legible forms of global violence, largely through the dispossession of space, mass incarceration, and the degrading of environments, that operate as forms of slow genocide, on the one hand, and the centralizing of political power through the reproduction of spatially terrorized communities, generationally, on the other.
Alfred Frankowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research interests include contemporary political philosophy, black aesthetics, critical race theory, German idealism, phenomenology, post-colonialism, and critical genocide studies. He is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence and Anti-Black Political Violence (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021) and author of The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Philosophy of Mourning (Lexington Books, 2015).
