Fatal blow
Urbicidal geographies, pax colonial and black sovereignty in the Colombian city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J A Alves (0000-0002-3231-1693, University of California, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1055-1072 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758211042022 |
| OpenAlex | W3197781008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article gives ethnographic form to Fanon's warning that in the colonial world, "zombies are more terrifying than settlers," by analyzing how racial mythologies produce spatial classifications of Black urban communities as unruly places and how Black individuals challenge their wretched condition by embracing a "program of complete disorder." To do so, the article analyzes the short(ened) life of Paco, a young Black man under house arrest whose retaliatory violence against, and territorial dispute with, the police is an entry point for exploring resistance to urban coloniality in Santiago de Cali/Colombia. The article engages with the field of Black geography to propose a Fanonian reading of contemporary cityscapes as colonial spaces. Such colonial spatialities, it is argued, are not defined merely by subjugation to death but also, as Paco's refusal to be killed may reveal, by an insurgent spatial praxis that might reposition the Black subject in relation to the city and the regime of Law
Colonialism · Criminology · Ethnography · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Sex work and related issues
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Laughter Out of Place
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Conceptions of Space and Crime in the Punitive Neoliberal City
What Happened to the “Promised Land”? A Fanonian Perspective on Post‐Apartheid South Africa
Marronage as a Past and Present Geography in the Americas
Colored Amazons
Emancipatory social inquiry
The fire this time
Black matters are spatial matters
Implicit revanchism
The Contours of Disorder
Fanon and Space
Concerning Violence
Patrones de mortalidad comparativos entre la población afrodescendiente y la blanca-mestiza para Cali y el Valle
Becoming the 'Baddest
The Black Mohicans
The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy
To Be Announced
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
No-Bodies
The Power of Violence in War and Peace
Esa paz blanca, esa paz de muerte
War-talk
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |