Planetary Portals
by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Kathryn Yusoff and Michael Salu / Goldsmiths Press
Planetarities series
Planetary Portals focuses on the colonial afterlives of extraction in southern Africa and its colonisation of the future. Through a critical engagement with imperial archives – specifically the archival records of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes during the Kimberley diamond rush (1871), South African gold rushes (1873-1886), and the “African expansion” of imperialism – the book maps new cartographies of passage into alternate futures.
Guided by an ethics of repair and restitution of silenced histories, Planetary Portals investigates how dreams of Empire are sustained through geographic imaginaries of Africa-as-mine, Africaas-continent and Africa-as-resource.
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