Apartheid Remains
Book Launch by Sharad Chari
Talks & Book Launches
May 15, 2024
5:00 PM
Girvetz 2320
Event Info
Sharad Chari will share insights from his new book, "Apartheid Remains," published by Duke University Press in May 2024. Through long-term historical and ethnographic research, this book explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban. Part I, 'Racial Palimpsest,' shows Phow South Africa's twentieth century conserves the remains of multiple pasts in Durban, including attempts by the racial state to remake territory and personhood, while instead deepening spatial contradictions and struggles. Part II, 'Remains of Revolution,' shows how these struggles took specific shape as they coursed through the late apartheid city.
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Sharad Chari is an Associate Professor of Geography and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley; Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER); and author of Gramsci at Sea and Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India.
Jasbir K. Puar is a Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at University of British Columbia, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.