Critical approaches to studying apartheid as a concept and as a reality
Mahsa Alami Fariman (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
The workshop pushes forward the debates on what the notion of apartheid affords in terms of coming to terms with the current political conditions. It is concerned with the power-laden processes of division, separation and fragmentation, whether on the urban, national or global scale. Jacques Derrida’s often-cited text on apartheid deems the term ‘racism’s last word’ (Derrida & Kamuf, 1985). The final word on apartheid, however, is far from being written. Historically associated with South Africa’s regime of white supremacy between 1948 and 1994 (Dubow, 2014), apartheid has also been codified as a crime in international law (Bultz, 2013), become an analytical concept for investigating various axes of domination and oppression, and entered the world’s political vocabulary (Besterman, 2019; Human et al., 2007; Amnesty, 2017).