Apartheid Remains

Sharad Chari is 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.

“In the years during which he researched and wrote this book, Sharad Chari practiced a long nearness to people and places subjected to apartheid’s technologies of unmattering, which aimed to rob them of any meaning. From his insistent being with has come a magnificent, important work of great erudition and political amplitude and also the rare qualities of tenderness and solace.” - Gabeba Baderoon, author of (Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-apartheid) “In this capacious book, Sharad Chari traces the palimpsest of apartheid rule by giving us a chilling analysis of liberal formations of biopolitical subjection and their enduring power. And yet, Chari ensures that this is a book about political hope, illuminating movements, struggles, and insurgencies that constitute a genealogy of revolution. We need both in the times at hand: to better understand liberal government and its refusals and rebellions.” - Ananya Roy, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles "Apartheid Remains provides a detailed history of the communities under scrutiny and does so both through broad-strokes history and through the moving personal profiles of the subjects he encounters. . . . It is an intellectual feat of no small proportion." - Grant Farred (Antipode) "Apartheid Remains is a moving and eloquently written ethnography . . . . It is essential reading for anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the multifaceted legacies of apartheid and its enduring influence on the present . . . ." - Bastien Dratwa (Urban Studies)

• List of Illustrations  ixAbbreviations  xiiiPrelude: What Remains?  xviiMaps  xxviiIntroduction. Detritus in Durban, 2002–2008  1Part I: Racial Palimpsest1. Remains of a Camp: Biopolitical Fantasies of a “White Man’s Country,” 1902–1904  332. Settlements of Memory: Forgeries of Life in Common, 1900–1930s  613. Ruinous Foundations of Progressive Segregation, 1920s–1930s  974. The Birth of Biopolitical Struggle, 1940s  1335. The Science Fiction of Apartheid’s Spatial Fix, 1948–1970s  157Part II: Remains of Revolution6. The Theologico-Political Moment, 1970s  1977. The Insurrectionist Moment: Armed Struggle, 1960s–1980s  2278. The Moment of Urban Revolution, 1980s  2579. The Moment of the Disqualified, 1980s–2000s  303Conclusion. Accumulating Remains, Rhythms of Expectation  339Coda. Black Atlantic to Indian Ocean: Afrofuture as the Common  345Acknowledgments  347Notes  353Bibliography  403Index