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Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The concept of empathy has been set to work, across a range of fields, to mark a break with the relational patterns of apartheid. Similarly, empathy has been identified, historically, as that which, within apartheid and ...
Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies
(Indiana University Press, 2016)
At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...
Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the wake of apartheid
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
What we at first found intriguing about Simon Gush’s Red, what the documentary and the installation seemed to mutually conjure, was the Mandela car as a body to be mourned.2 Mourning recurred as a latent theme through the ...
The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
To frame this paper, which given its focus on the installation Red should ostensibly deal with a question of aesthetics and technology, with an epigraph that situates the contemplative capacity of a cow alongside the echo ...
Uncontained and the Constraints of Historicism as Method: A reply to Mario Pissarra
(Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2013)
Mario Pissarra’s rigorous and considered critical review of Uncontained: Opening the
Community Arts Project archive (2012) marks a significant contribution to starting a
discussion that the book and exhibition aimed to ...
Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this
condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African
predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the ...