CIVIC LANE Necropolitics, a concept developed by philosopher Achille Mbembe, examines how sovereign power is exercised through the control, management, and manipulation of death. Moving beyond Foucault’s concept of "biopolitics" which focuses on the administration of life Mbembe argues that in the contemporary world, the ultimate expression of sovereignty is the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Necropolitics describes a state of existence where vast populations are subjected to conditions of life that confer upon them the status of "living dead." This is enacted through the creation of "death-worlds" such as refugee camps, occupied territories, or militarized zones where bodies are treated as disposable, and violence is used to manage and eliminate groups deemed threats to the dominant order. By analyzing how power operates by weaponizing mortality, necropolitics forces a critical confrontation with the structural inequalities