Apartheid remains / Sharad Chari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chari, Sharad, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Errantries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid--South Africa--Durban.

Apartheid.

Durban (South Africa)--Race relations--History.

Durban (South Africa).

South Africa--Social policy.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 460 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Apartheid Remains explores spatial segregation and racial capitalism in the Indian Ocean city of Durban, South Africa, both preceding and in the wake of apartheid, from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Sharad Chari argues that efforts to address the crises of racial capitalism through spatial fixes have produced new contradictions and struggles, and he investigates how state and capital forces harness biopolitical discourse in this circular struggle. Across the book's chapters, a Black Marxist-feminist framework is used to analyze the recursive, racialized state violence of biopolitics, proving a need for "theory in action" or the active engagement with communities affected by and protesting their conditions, as demonstrated through a palimpsest of documentary photography, interviews, ethnography, and archival work. Apartheid Remains offers a method and form of 'geography' attentive to the spatial, material and embodied remains of history. Varied struggles led by denizens of South Durban point beyond the anti-apartheid horizon to persistent imaginations of abolition of all forms of racial capitalism and environmental suffering that define our planetary predicament"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Remains of a camp : biopolitical fantasies of a 'White man's country,' 1902-

Settlements of memory : forgeries of life in common, 1900-1930s

Ruinous foundations of progressive segregation, 1920s-1950s

The birth of biopolitical struggle, 1940s

The science fiction of apartheid's spatial fix, 1948-1970s

The theologico-political moment, 1970s

The insurrectionist moment : armed struggle, 1960s-1980s

The moment of uban revolution, 1980s

Moment of the disqualified, 1980s

Conclusion: Accumulating remains, rhythms of expectation

Coda: Black Atlantic to Indian Ocean, Afrofuture as the common.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Chari, Sharad. Apartheid remains.

ISBN:

9781478059455

1478059451

9781478094005

1478094001

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