Insurgent Geologies - Achille Mbembe - On Diminishment, I: Architecture and the Shelter-Rubble-Dust Continuum

On Diminishment, I: Architecture and the Shelter-Rubble-Dust Continuum

Achille Mbembe

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Destruction caused by Israeli bombing of Jabalia camp, Gaza Strip, 16 October 2024.Photo: UNRWA.

Insurgent Geologies
May 2025










Notes
1

Gordon Childe, “The Urban Revolution,” The Town Planning Review 21, no. 1 (April 1950): 3-17.

2

Alan Mabin, “A Century of South African Housing Acts 1920–2020”, Urban Forum 31, (2020): 453–472.

3

André Leroi-Gourhan, Gesture and Speech (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993).

4

Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, Le renard pâle (Paris: l’Institut d’Ethnologie, 1965).

5

Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas (London: Oxford University Press,1965).

6

See Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (London: Faber & Faber, 1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (London: Faber & Faber,1954).

7

Laurine Platzky and Cheryl Walker, Forced Removals in SA (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985).

8

Catherine Lutz and Andrea Mazzarino eds., War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: New York University Press, 2019); Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel, “Documenting the effects of armed conflict on population health,” Annual Review of Public Health, vol. 37, (2016): 205–18.

9

Read Joseba Zulaika, Hellfire From Paradise Ranch: On the Frontlines of Drone Warfare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020); Katherine Chandler, Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020). See also Jairus Victor Grove, Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019); and Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019).

10

John R. Logan and Deirdre Oakley, “Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization,” Journal of Urban Affairs 39, no. 8 (2017): 1031–1046; Calvin John Smiley and David Fakunle, “From ‘brute’ to ‘thug’: The demonization and criminalization of the unarmed Black male victims in America,” Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 26, nos. 3–4 (2016): 350–66.

11

Arjun Appadurai, “Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai,” Public Culture 12, no. 3 (2000): 638.