Engagements
Engagements
Fractured Flights
Sara Salem
In this essay, Sara Salem reflects on personal and political histories of air travel, borders and surveillance. Beginning with an early memory of flying between Lusaka and Cairo, we travel with her through airports, waiting rooms, borders and circuitous routes as she unravels the workings of coloniality and capital from the vantage point of the sky.
In collaboration with Race, Space & Architecture, this piece is presented as a pair of ghost publications; books that exist only in our collective imaginary and on the glowing page of the screen. For the best experience, we recommend downloading the publications at the link below, reading them at full screen, zooming in and out and allowing your cursor to follow the paths Salem traces. If they find as much resonance with you as they have for us, we kindly ask that you allow these pieces to take further flight by sharing them with one or two contacts - touching base as much as social distancing will allow – by email, WhatsApp, DM, bluetooth and more.
Sara Salem is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. She has recently published articles on Angela Davis in Egypt in Signs; on Frantz Fanon and Egypt's postcolonial state in Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies; and on Nasserism in Egypt through the lens of haunting in Middle East Critique. Her recently published book with Cambridge University Press is titled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony.
Kusubiri and other pieces
Gloria Pavita
In a series of short films, Gloria Pavita explores the everyday spatial and material violence of immobility and waiting as a non-citizen in South Africa. In these films, we see and hear what it means to spend most of one’s life waiting for citizenship or the right to belong.
Gloria Pavita is a reader, writer and storyteller of an often unseen everyday, one inhabited by people who aren't warranted the privilege to write or speak for themselves. See more here: https://pavitagloria.wixsite.com/homemaking-anthology/processing
Home making Anthology
Why did you come to South Africa?
Limited Mobility
Kusubiri (waiting)
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Zhuwao:Ghosting, Literary Archives & Tracing A Life
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Junior Research Fellow in African & Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Kent. Since 2016 he has been a researcher for readingzimbabwe.com a digital archive collecting, cataloguing, digitizing and making available information on books about Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the present. He is working on book/archival projects on literary figures from Zimbabwe such as Dambudzo Marechera, Derek Huggins, Ndabaningi Sithole and Yvonne Vera.