APARTHEID REMAINS

460pp., illus., maps, paperback, First SA Edition, Pietermaritzburg 2024

First published in the USA in 2024

“In the years during which he researched and wrote this book, Sharad Chari practiced a long nearness to people and places subjected to apartheid’s technologies of unmattering, which aimed to rob them of any meaning. From his insistent being with has come a magnificent, important work of great erudition and political amplitude and also the rare qualities of tenderness and solace. Gabeba Baderoon, author of Regarding Muslims: From slavery to post-apartheid

“In this capacious book, Sharad Chari traces the palimpsest of apartheid rule by giving us a chilling analysis of liberal formations of biopolitical subjection and their enduring power. And yet, Chari ensures that this is a book about political hope, illuminating movements, struggles, and insurgencies that constitute a genealogy of revolution. We need both in the times at hand: to better understand liberal government and its refusals and rebellions.” Ananya Roy, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles

Sharad Chari is Associate Professor of Geography and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley; Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER); and author of Gramsci at Sea and Fraternal Capital: Peasant-workers, self-made men, and globalization in provincial India.