Settler Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and the Urban Political

Theresa Enright — 2026-06-30T05:00:00Z

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City by Yousuf Al‑Bulushi examines the persistence of segregation, precarity, and anti-Black violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. It also analyzes a prominent social movement, the Durban-based Abahlali baseMjondolo, and its members' struggle for housing, dignity, and basic survival.
Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City explores “the strategies of global movements confronting racial capitalism” (p. 7). Theorizing this relationship from

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Rendering a Redeveloped France

Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne — 2017-06-07T06:00:00Z

As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new investment from long histories of both multiculturalism and race-based stigmatization. But these are histories that the economic and political authors of the new Paris appear to want to erase. This essay's four authors deconstruct the renderings on billboards created to represent newly renovated banlieues, reflecting on why France's imagined future is unrepresentative of the nation's

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Settler Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and the Urban Political

Rendering a Redeveloped France