Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and ‘consulate time’. The aesthetic breaks emerging from the book’s image-text montage draw attention to the ethics of encounter and passage that challenges colonial, domestic, and nation-statist sovereignty regimes of inattention.
Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Genre, Half-lives, and Precarious Respirationscapes
Chapter 2 – Ruminations on Apocalyptic Sublimes
Image Interlude A: Apocalypse
Chapter 3 – Notes on Mimetic Violence and Apocalyptic Sublimes
Chapter 4 – Aesthetic Separation / Separation Aesthetics
Chapter 5 – Subalterns ‘Speak’: Migrant Bodies, and the Performativity of the Arts
Image Interlude B: Black Girl Mask
Chapter 6 – Cinematic Encounters and Frontiers of Precarity
Chapter 7 – Legal Precarities: Burying / Burrowing for Truth and Justice
Chapter 8 – Aesthetic Justice: Figural Darkness and Judicial Blindness
Image Interlude C: Cry of the Passersby
Chapter 9 – Precarious Breaks: The Movement of African Sporting Bodies
Coda: Aesthetic Refrains, Tremulous Thought, and Mushrooming Worlds
About the author
Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies and Chair of Political Science at Vassar College N.Y..Michael J. Shapiro is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa.Barbara Benish is a California-born artist and writer, who divides her studio time between the U.S. and Czechia.Enrique Martinez Leal is a visual artist and Associate Professor of Print Media at the Art Department of the University of California in Santa Cruz.
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