Melayna Lamb
Biographic Data
| ID | 6089984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melayna Lamb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melayna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamb |
| SIGNATURE | LAMB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Law |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anti-Blackness as Disavowal and Condition
Recent calls to “defund the police” have seen a plethora of movements decry state funds allocated to the police and ask that those funds be placed elsewhere. In this article, we return to Michel Foucault to analyze how calls for rebalancing budgets away from the police force and towards social projects both rely on political categories established in Foucault's work and encapsulates an aporia that emerges through them. Locating shifts towards the…
Policing the Pandemic
Sovereignty between the Katechon and the Eschaton
This paper both rejects the reading of Hobbes's Leviathan as a secularised katechon and rethinks anew the questions of sovereignty and politics in his thought. It does so by examining the eschatological character of his politico-theological understanding of the relation between the kingdom of the Leviathan and the kingdom of God. Indeed, through different contemporary readings of Hobbes's theory of the State, this paper offers an insight into the…
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Sovereignty between the Katechon and the Eschaton
This paper both rejects the reading of Hobbes's Leviathan as a secularised katechon and rethinks anew the questions of sovereignty and politics in his thought. It does so by examining the eschatological character of his politico-theological understanding of the relation between the kingdom of the Leviathan and the kingdom of God. Indeed, through different contemporary readings of Hobbes's theory of the State, this paper offers an insight into the…
Policing the Pandemic
Anti-Blackness as Disavowal and Condition
Recent calls to “defund the police” have seen a plethora of movements decry state funds allocated to the police and ask that those funds be placed elsewhere. In this article, we return to Michel Foucault to analyze how calls for rebalancing budgets away from the police force and towards social projects both rely on political categories established in Foucault's work and encapsulates an aporia that emerges through them. Locating shifts towards the…
Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biopower (1 work) · Black lives matter movement (1 work) · Black People (1 work) · Blacks (1 work) · Character (mathematics (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (1 work)