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(Cancelled) Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Mattia Fumanti

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Dates:16 March 2020
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Dr Mattia Fumanti
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Title : The Remains of the Social : Traversing the Post-apartheid through Puncta

This paper is concerned with the lasting presence of apartheid and its legacies in contemporary Namibia. In particular I will explore the ways in which the (post)-apartheid in Namibia is a condition that is mediated by the embodied and existential experience of apartheid, of its multiple temporalities, spaces and geographies.

Here I build on William Kentridge’s work, in particular on his idea that the experiences of colonialism, race and labour in post-apartheid South Africa, should be framed within a concept of time that is disjointed, in and out of sync, reversed and forwarded, fastened and slowed down.

In this sense, Kentridge’s conceptualises apartheid, and what comes after it, as a time that cannot be set right, but remains ‘out of joint.’ Here I argue that this approach to apartheid can help our understanding of the (post)-apartheid condition, in particular of whiteness and race, as both lived and embodied experiences mediated by multiple temporalities, as both in and out of time.

In arguing for the need of a new orthography to describe the (post)-apartheid condition I will present this paper through a series of punctum/a, moments which punctuates the (post)-apartheid and in which the apartheid emerges to the surface of the quotidian with more clarity

Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017 Arthur Lewis Building Time 4:15 to 6:00pm (Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm Please ensure waste, cups, etc are placed in the bins provided)

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Dr Mattia Fumanti

Role: Speaker

Organisation: TBA

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