In Apartheid Remains (Duke, 2024), Sharad Chari (Geography) explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city of Durban. Through long-term historical and ethnographic research, Chari portrays South Africa’s 20th century as a palimpsest that conserves the remains of multiple pasts, including attempts by the racial state to remake territory and personhood while instead deepening spatial contradictions and struggles.

At the tense interface of Marxism, feminism, and Black studies, Chari offers a method and form of geography attentive to the spatial and embodied remains of history.

He is joined by Gillian Hart (Geography Department).