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...Layered Histories Chapter 1, “Palimpsest City,” provides a layered history of contemporary Chinese world making. The chapter is based in two sites in Johannesburg: the “mining belt mall,” a symbol of post-2000 Chinese developments along the old mining belt, and the city’s two Chinatowns...

... The introduction, “Layered Diasporas,” discusses Palmares in relation to concepts and events in Brazil and also Africa and Latin America. The “layered diasporas” that shaped Palmares are explored through the book’s five thematic parts. Part I, “War and Conquest,” situates the violences leveled...

...Reflections on a Layered Legacy ...

... The epilogue, “Afro-Asian Futures,” examines two peripheral sites—a “failed” Chinese megaproject outside Johannesburg and a Chinese factory shut down for labor abuses—that reiterate the layered colonial histories of Chinese capitalist projects today. The epilogue revisits the book’s key...

... illuminates the inheritances of the many layers of material infrastructures, data formats, forms of colonization, dispossession, and power that have been profiled across the book data loss excess grief defunct meteorological satellites ...

... Chapter 1, “Palimpsest City,” provides a layered history of contemporary Chinese world making. The chapter is based in two sites in Johannesburg: the “mining belt mall,” a symbol of post-2000 Chinese developments along the old mining belt, and the city’s two Chinatowns, which illustrate...

... cultural project b 1a c k s p a c e which provides a contemporary example of a diasporic territory of soul—a space multiply layered with imagination, history, and utopian ideal. Stuart Hall Jose Munoz Erna Brodber diaspora queer ...

... In a remote outstation, Yilngi Yarrowin identified a thick tubular layer of fog moving around a nearby hill as a tjelbak, a snakelike entity that leaves in its wake the flat, striated layers of fog that soak mosquito nets, blankets, and bodies and that can make life a misery. Chapter 5 argues...

... of treating a slippery and layered notion like “community” as an identifiable object of intervention. community particularism subterranean ecology Aga Khan Cairo ...

... In this chapter, Matt Richardson employs an ethnographic perspective to examine Sharon Bridgforth’s The love conjure/blues Text installation . He contends that the jazz aesthetic, an artistic practice that encourages layering of images, ideas, sound, and experiences, informs Bridgforth’s...