Insurgent Geologies - Hugo ka Canham and Huda Tayob - Ghostly Longings in the Charged Quiet of the Shoreline

Ghostly Longings in the Charged Quiet of the Shoreline

Hugo ka Canham and Huda Tayob

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Swakopmund Genocide Cemetery. Credit: Hugo Ka Canham.

Insurgent Geologies
May 2025










Notes
1

For instance: Jack Boulton, “‘The crocodile is stronger in the water’: Swakopmund jetty as a place of death in Namibia,” in New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes, ed. Danielle House, Avril Maddrell, and Mariske Westendorp (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023), 107–23.

2

Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). Hugo ka Canham expands on this formulation through his conception of ukwakumkanya outlined in Riotous Deathscapes (Durham: Duke University Press, 2023).

3

Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

4

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut 1982 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2013).

5

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995).

6

Charles van Onselen, The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955 (London: Hurst Publishers, 2019).

7

Yvette Christiansë, Unconfessed (New York: Other Press, 2006).

8

Tina M. Campt, Listening to Images (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).

9

Huda Tayob, Index of Edges, .

10

Frantz Fanon, “Algeria Unveiled,” in A Dying Colonialism (New York: Grove Press, 1965), 35–67.

11

Khal Torabully, Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (London: Seagull Books, 2021).







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