Apartheid Remains

“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

"Apartheid Remains provides a detailed history of the communities under scrutiny and does so both through broad-strokes history and through the moving personal profiles of the subjects he encounters. . . . It is an intellectual feat of no small proportion." - Grant Farred, Antipode

"Apartheid Remains is a moving and eloquently written ethnography . . . . It is essential reading for anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the multifaceted legacies of apartheid and its enduring influence on the present . . . ." - Bastien Dratwa, Urban Studies

"Apartheid Remains will force scholars to consider the differences and gaps between scholarly knowledge of radical political struggles and the sociohistorical practice of these struggles. The book is an effort to bridge this gap and a meditative acknowledgement of the difficulties of doing so. By being with South Africans and thinking through the meaning of their experiences and the places in which they live, Chari grapples with the political implications of studying subjection and resistance in a way that few scholars do." - Garrett Freas, Global Black Thought

"Apartheid Remains is a masterwork of interdisciplinary research—solidly based on years of archival and field research, theoretically sophisticated, and driven by an inspiring political faith that a better world is possible." - Simon Lewis, African Studies Review

"As we move further and further away from its end, the legacy of this system and its influence on present-day South Africa continues to elicit analysis and debate. Sharad Chari’s Apartheid Remains is a welcome contribution to this conversation. . . . Chari gives a fresh analysis of an old problem, namely in the ways apartheid was not a particular moment but the culmination of a racialized system whose legacy still haunts South Africa to this day." - Jacob Ivey, H-Africa, H-Net Reviews

"A must-read. . . . Sharad Chari, the author of this insightful and magnificent work, has done exceptionally well in motivating South African citizens to get emancipated from the colonial mindset. The book has shed some light on the devastating effects of the existing colonial structures in a postcolonial dispensation." - Luke J De Bruyn, Yesterday & Today

"This work breaks new grounds. . . . Chari’s focus on the symbolic importance of land provides a nuanced understanding of the persistence of apartheid’s remains." - Kirti Jha Kulshreshtha, African Studies Quarterly

"[T]he author masterfully blends numerous theoretical perspectives, analyses of key historical processes, and primary—in particular, photographs, maps, posters, pamphlets, flyers, music, film, official and unofficial documents, and personal stories—and an extensive body of secondary sources to produce what is a thought-provoking, informative, and pleasant read." - Gregory Houston, African Studies Review