Rebuilding subjectivity and community in the postcolonial/post-apartheid context

A critical interrogation of different forms of colonial violence: legal, political, psychological, epistemic and institutional.

Histories and studies of individual, social and political movements concerned with reconstructing or repairing the colonial subject.

Different theoretical and disciplinary conceptualizations of the colonial wound: (inter/transgenerational) trauma, alienation and social death. This includes analyses of colonial subject formation, including processes of racialization and sexualization.

How do the intersecting legacies of race, gender and class contribute to an understanding of the colonial condition as a wound?

Conceptualizing repair as a psychological, political or ethical practice.

How might the visual, performance and literary arts contribute to practices of repair in post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial society?