Premesh Lalu

University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research, UWC, Faculty Member

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Critical Times, 2019

Empire and Nation

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2015

Where Does Sadness Come From? Politics, Potentiality and a Possible Humanities

Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2012

Abstract If, as Spinoza suggests, sadness is an inadequate idea, how do we account for its mobili... more Abstract If, as Spinoza suggests, sadness is an inadequate idea, how do we account for its mobilization in nationalist and post-colonial critiques of colonialism, neo-colonialism and neo-liberalism? How, in other words, might we see in the inadequate idea of sadness the very conditions for thinking our way into a discussion of political subjectivity that loosens the grip of biopolitics on African subjectivity? Drawing on aesthetic practices of art and film, this article argues that a fundamental shift is discernable in the careful ways in which the affect ...

The Communist Party Press and the Creation of the South African Working Class, 1921-1936

Lived Texts, Written Texts and Con-texts: Eddie Roux and the Making of the South African Past

The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts

In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, N... more In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, set off on a journey to retrieve the skull of Hintsa, the Xhosa king. Hintsa had been killed by British troops on the banks of the Nqabarha River over a century and a half before and, it was widely believed, been beheaded. From a variety of quarters including the press, academia and Xhosa traditional leadership Gcaleka's mission was mocked and derided.

Leaving the City

Desire Lines: Space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city, Sep 13, 2007

Far from being self-evident, Mahmood Mamdani's phrase 'the rural in the urban'may ... more Far from being self-evident, Mahmood Mamdani's phrase 'the rural in the urban'may be construed as a ﬁgure of speech that delineates the ways in which the rural functions as a silent referent in the discourse of the urban. 1 Post-apartheid city planners might heed the caution entailed in Mamdani's critique of South African exceptionalism, especially his thesis that apartheid was a variation on the theme of indirect rule that similarly deﬁned systems of colonial governmentality in tropical Africa and apartheid South Africa (1996: 27). In the ...

The virtual stampede for Africa: Digitisation, postcoloniality and archives of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa

Innovation, Sep 5, 2007

This article presents a polemical argument for a politics of digitisation that aims to politicise... more This article presents a polemical argument for a politics of digitisation that aims to politicise the archival disciplines while making sense of the conjuncture in which digitisation initiatives are mooted in Southern Africa. It argues for a blurring of the work of archivist and historian in reconstituting the archive of the liberation struggle. It alters the paradigmatic frameworks of the Cold War that have hitherto defined the structure of the archive. The article provisionally anticipates the trajectories of a politics of digitisation, while complicating our notion of information by tracking its emergence in colonialism and the restrictive paradigms of the Cold War. Calling for a constitution of the archive that undercuts both colonial precedents and Cold War paradigms, it argues for a politics of digitisation that will expand what can be said about the history of liberation struggles in Southern Africa by redefining the meaning of the postcolonial. The realignment is intended to provoke new conceptualisations of globalisation and the archive in the postcolony.

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