Occupation against Occupation
Space and Anticolonial Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2292872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eli Jelly‐schapiro (University of California, Merced, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-52 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transforming Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-0559 • E-ISSN: 1548-7466 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/traa.12024 |
| OpenAlex | W1970277798 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
“The colonial world,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth, “is a world divided into compartments ... a world cut in two.” Mapping the geographic rationality of colonial domination allows us, Fanon insists, to “mark out the lines on which a decolonized society will be organized.” In this article, I sketch either side of the dialectic to which Fanon gestures–the spatial logic of colonial power, and the spatial logic of anticolonial protest. My analysis focuses on apartheid South Africa, a context wherein the spatial rationality of colonial power was rendered with a particular clarity. Working toward a thematic of anticolonial occupation, I highlight three unique but imbricated sites of resistance: settlement, transportation, and urbanity. From the particular example of antiapartheid resistance, I argue, we can begin to develop a spatial theory of anticolonial struggle that might be brought to bear upon the neoliberal present
Aesthetics · Archaeology · CLARITY · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Rationality · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture · Urban Planning and Governance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |