Book chapter
Unlearning, (un)naming, cohabiting
Spatial Justice After Apartheid, pp.84-102
Routledge, 1
2022
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Abstract
The notion of “unlearning” is pivotal when reflecting on possibilities to respond to the complexities of transformation, postcoloniality and decoloniality. This chapter argues that spatiality as a relation is bounded to epistemology and language; that to think about spatial justice involves thinking about epistemic justice and language. The connection between language and land is central to literature and poetry in South Africa. It recalls Schmitt's view on the relation between naming and appropriation, and discusses Mignolo and de Sousa Santos's views on Western epistemology and thinking. The chapter explores the link between naming and spatial injustice. It discusses a case on naming, or rather “unnaming” in which a minority rights organisation challenged the City Council of Pretoria/Tshwane for changing a number of street names.
Details
- Title
- Unlearning, (un)naming, cohabiting
- Creators
- Karin Van Marle
- Publication Details
- Spatial Justice After Apartheid, pp.84-102
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Identifiers
- 991013078613202368
- Academic Unit
- School of Law and Justice
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter