Tag: dehumanisation

An ethnographic account details the experiences and resistance of displaced communities affected by the expansion of coal mining operations in post-apartheid South Africa. It also offers a critical analysis of the legal and policy frameworks that enable their exploitation.

Sithole problematises the signifier X, as a marker of the dehumanisation of the black subject. He argues that post-1994 South Africa retains the markers of its colonial past, and remains a territory of unfreedom for blacks. He offers a new imagination for a liberatory project through the idea of Azania as a site of true emancipation.