When: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 3:00 PM - Where:
Please note, the above start time is South African Standard Time (SAST).
Environmental Humanities South (EHS), together with the Planetary Portals Collective, made up of Casper Liang Ebbensgaard, Kathryn Yusoff, Kerry Holden, and Michael Salu is excited to announce the African, post-colonial, and black ecologies reading group set to begin on 2 May 2024, running until October 17 2024. In the inaugural session, this gathering will focused attention on the work of Hugo ka Canham's Riotous Deathscape (Wits/Duke University Press, 2023).
The reading group is the culmination of a long-term partnership between EHS and the Planetary Portals Collective, aiming to think about infrastructural politics and the legacies of colonialism on the African continent. By thinking about the afterlives of the empire on the continent, this collaboration seeks to make interventions that are grounded on the emerging scholarship whose concern, amongst others, is the relationships people have with nature, in the wake of climate change and the ecological crisis globally. Other critical themes set to be explored in the reading group are the effects of expulsion from the land, extractive politics, mining, racial capitalism, and the making of the empire.
For this session, Robyn d'Avignon and Janet Adomako will be present in the reading group, offering us an opportunity to discuss Ritual Geology + Gold in Spirit: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa.
Join the meeting using 957 896 4142.
For more info, email lesley.green@uct.ac.za and/or k.yussof@qmul.ac.uk