Politics of the Wretched

The Politics of the Wretched examines the relationship between race, reason, and ressentiment in modern political life.

Zalloua focuses on subjects excluded from dominant conceptions of humanity and political belonging.

The book engages critical theory and decolonial thought to ask how resentment can become either politically disabling or a source of transformative opposition.

It critiques political frameworks that normalize the suffering of racialized and colonized populations.

At the same time, it searches for forms of collective struggle capable of challenging the structures that produce wretchedness.