Produção do mundo colonial: homo sacer, a produção da vida nua e necropolítica

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the structures of violence, brutality, and destruction that constituted the colonization process. For this endeavor, we analyzed the concept of colonial violence by Frantz Fanon, the concepts of Homo sacer and nude lives by Giorgio Agamben, and the concept of necropolitics developed by Achille Mbembe. Our central objective is to verify how colonizing nations used deadly instruments of sovereign domination to reduce colonized territories and their population to absolute conditions of exploitation and killability. Furthermore, we analyzed how the colonial power, with its sovereignty and its power to legally promote a permanent state of exception, produced bodies linked to an inclusion-exclusive system, that is, individuals and entire populations included in a system of exclusion, for the sake of de development of capitalism and of modernity.