In this section, you can access to the latest technical information related to the FUTURE project topic.

Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large"?Scale Infrastructures of East Africa

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12615?af=R Abstract

This essay offers a critical analysis of the metaphysical and methodological presuppositions of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor". While Tuck and Yang position settler colonial spatiality as structured by a settler"?native"?slave triad, we argue that their critique of metaphor entails the collapse of the triad into a settler"?native dyad, the reduction of slavery to forced labour, and a division between the material and the symbolic that forecloses not only an analysis of slavery, but also the constitution of settler colonialism itself. Through an immanent critique of "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" we identify what animates their critique of metaphor, and drawing on scholarship in Black studies, we offer an alternative theorisation of slavery and settler colonialism.

» Author: 2> <p>In this paper we combine infrastructure studies and black radical traditions to foreground how imperial remains deeply inform the logics that bring forth contemporary large"?scale infrastructures in Africa. The objective, prompted by the on

» Source: Wiley

« Go to Technological Watch



AIMPLAS Instituto Tecnológico del Plástico

C/ Gustave Eiffel, 4
(València Parc Tecnològic) - 46980
PATERNA (Valencia) - SPAIN

PHONE

(+34) 96 136 60 40

EMAIL

Project Management department - Sustainability and Industrial Recovery
life-future-project@aimplas.es