Passages - Sam Okoth Opondo - Bog

Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity provides an image-text montage that reveals the shadow-worlds intensifying precarity for many vulnerable populations as well as the complex event and discursive spaces that offer alternative approaches to knowledge, politics, relationality and encounters. The book addresses themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'. The aesthetic breaks in the book draw attention to the ethics of encounter and passage that challenges colonial, domestic, and nation-statist sovereignty regimes of inattention.