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Sharad Chari explores the 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.
List of contents
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xiii
Prelude: What Remains? xvii
Maps xxvii
Introduction. Detritus in Durban, 2002–2008 1
Part I: Racial Palimpsest
1. Remains of a Camp: Biopolitical Fantasies of a “White Man’s Country,” 1902–1904 33
2. Settlements of Memory: Forgeries of Life in Common, 1900–1930s 61
3. Ruinous Foundations of Progressive Segregation, 1920s–1930s 97
4. The Birth of Biopolitical Struggle, 1940s 133
5. The Science Fiction of Apartheid’s Spatial Fix, 1948–1970s 157
Part II: Remains of Revolution
6. The Theologico-Political Moment, 1970s 197
7. The Insurrectionist Moment: Armed Struggle, 1960s–1980s 227
8. The Moment of Urban Revolution, 1980s 257
9. The Moment of the Disqualified, 1980s–2000s 303
Conclusion. Accumulating Remains, Rhythms of Expectation 339
Coda. Black Atlantic to Indian Ocean: Afrofuture as the Common 345
Acknowledgments 347
Notes 353
Bibliography 403
Index
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Sharad Chari
Summary
Sharad Chari explores the 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.
