Farai Chipato’s research while affiliated with University of Glasgow and other places

... Translational logistics, alternately, produces sites and subjects external to governmental power. In other words, in the act of imbuing some actors with the capacity to govern, logistics strips others of that self-same agency and reshapes the conditions of possibility for somebody to become a 'resilient subject' (Chipato and Chandler, 2024). ...

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On the possibility of 'Just Resilience': A pragmatist approach to justice-based climate change governance

... Here, we seek to expand upon our initial presentation of 'Abyssal Geography' (Chandler & Pugh, 2023aPugh & Chandler, 2023; see also Dekeyser, 2023b;Grove, 2023;Phillip-Durham, 2023;Philogene Heron, 2023), and subsequent discussions of the importance of the figurative nature of abyssal work (Carter-White et al., 2024;Chandler & Pugh, 2024;Gfoellner, 2024;Jellis, 2024;Lesutis, 2024;Pohl, 2024;Puente-Lozano, 2024). The purpose of this paper is to explore negative approaches and the stakes involved in the 'metapolitical' (Chipato & Chandler, 2024) framing of the abyssal approach. The distinction between these approaches is at the heart of debate and discussion of questions of ontology in critical Black studies (see Hart, 2020, for a useful overview) and we seek to draw on some of this discussion in this paper. ...

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Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss

... cultural norms (Kwon and Byun 2024). The multifaceted nature of aesthetics allows us to gain insight into the complex dynamics behind the aesthetic expression of these main factors (Chipato 2024). ...

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Nurses' Challenges in End‐Of‐Life Care: Aesthetic Expression of Lived Worlds

... This development is not an isolated incident but should be understood as a part of a broader historical narrative of Pan-Africanism, reflecting its dynamic evolution and enduring vision of African unity. The authors note that AU expanded to include the African diaspora as Africa's 'sixth region', a move hailed as the 'third phase' of institutionalizing Pan-Africanism (Abrahamsen et al. 2023). If we are to pay more than lip service to the global decolonization agenda, Pan-Africanism is a worthy contender. ...

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Sub-Saharan Africa: South Africa “Decolonising lR in South Africa: Teaching Pan-African Thought as an International Relations Theory”

... At this point it should be noted that 'Afropolitanism' is not an uncontentious term, with various interpretations and value judgements that have been articulated in response to it (see Ede 2016, Coetzee 2017, Skinner 2017, Toivanen 2017, Ibironke 2021, Ho 2021, Lawore 2021, Chipato 2023. The motivation for using this term is not to conjure images of a mobile, diasporic, and cosmopolitan African elite, but rather to link English both with Mbembe's description of an attitudinal stance towards the world, and to align it with philosopher Kwame Appiah's (2005Appiah's ( , 2006 notion of 'rooted cosmopolitanism' (see Gehrmann 2016 for a discussion of Afropolitanism-as-Rooted-Cosmopolitanism). ...

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English and/in Africa: reflections on the language question, Afropolitanism, and linguistic orientation six decades after the ‘African Writers Conference’

... In this vein, scholars have raised questions about "how affirmative and reparative modes of inquiry engage with the unevenness produced by heteronormative, racialized, colonial, and capitalist regimes" (Ruez and Cockayne, 2021: 92). Also, posthuman accounts of security that affirm the entanglement of the Anthropocene epoch risk blurring the racialized exclusions, ruptures, and differences of this planetary age (Chipato and Chandler, 2023). ...

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Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction

... These courts are established to adjudicate disputes (Madhuku 2010). Depending on the nature of the dispute, the jurisdiction to adjudicate disputes in Zimbabwe is vested in courts such as the Supreme Court, High Court, Constitutional Court, Labour Court, Commercial Court of the High Court, Administrative Court and Magistrates Court (Verheul 2020). These courts have the mandate of applying facts and the law in passing judgements on cases before them. ...

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Digital justice delivery in Zimbabwe: Integrated electronic case management system adoption

... The shift to working upon the development worker rather than upon the world reflects the fact this is one of the first development policy books to take seriously the 'ontological turn'. This approach problematises the ontological assumptions of modern thought and is usually understood as a key critical component of contemporary decolonial, posthuman and new materialist approaches (see Chipato and Chandler 2022). Everything becomes opaque, inaccessible, a black box. ...

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Development After the End of the World: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict , by Mareike Schomerus, London, Bloomsbury, 2022, 158 pp., £28.99 (paperback), £85.00 (hardback), $115.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780755640836

... Nesse sentido, as políticas de promoção do turismo em terras indígenas podem ser construídas de forma programática com a criação de territórios livres de mineração (Vilani et al., 2024), a revisão da orientação eurocêntrica do processo legislativo e a elaboração de uma agenda pluriversal para se pensar e definir políticas e ações para construir outras formas de ser, estar e relacionar com a natureza (Chipato & Chandler, 2022;Lima & Mafra, 2023). ...

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Alternativa ao desenvolvimento? Uma análise dos planos de visitação em terras indígenas no Brasil

... Quan (2024) reads abolition as a kaleidoscope of practices of refusal-an assortment of modes and methods of radical divestment from the structures and systems we currently inhabit. Refusal as a central practice with abolitionist and allied feminist, queer decolonial projects and travels under various idioms with abolitionist and allied feminist, queer and decolonial projects such as disavowal (Chandler and Chipato 2021), waywardness (Hartman 2019a, b), ungovernability (Quan 2024), fugitivity (Campt 2019)-and acquires diverse forms at different historical, spatial, and social locations. The politics of refusal at its core is a rejection of the status quo as liveable; the decision to reject the terms of living with which one is presented and within/into which one is disciplined (Campt 2019). ...

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Dismantling Development: Towards an Abolitionist Theory of Development