Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity (Postcolonial International Studies)

This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'. Front Matter Contents List of figures List of authors and artists Passage from the artists Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Blurred juxtapositions: passages, images, and affects Genre, half-lives, and precarious respirationscapes Ruminations on apocalyptic sublimes Image interlude A: Apocalypse Notes on mimetic violence and apocalyptic sublimes Aesthetic separation/separation aesthetics Subalterns “speak”: migrant bodies and the performativity of the arts Image interlude B: Black Girl Mask Cinematic encounters and frontiers of precarity Legal precarities: burying/burrowing for truth and justice Image interlude C: Cry of the Passersby Aesthetic justice: figural darkness and judicial blindness Precarious breaks: the movement of African sporting bodies Coda: Aesthetic refrains, tremulous thought, and mushrooming worlds Index