{"id":19147,"date":"2023-09-08T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=19147"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:42","slug":"riotous-deathcrape-2","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/event\/riotous-deathcrape-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Riotous Deathscrapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:&nbsp; Hugo Canham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussants&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shireen Hassim<\/strong>, Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics; Carleton University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rinaldo Walcott:<\/strong>\u00a0 Professor and chair of Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Riotous-paper-240x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Riotous-paper-240x381.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Riotous-paper-160x254.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Riotous-paper-200x318.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Riotous-paper.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<i>Riotous Deathscapes<\/i>, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms&nbsp;<i>Mpondo theory<\/i>. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Africa\u2019s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have enabled the community\u2019s resilience and survival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral and living characters, following the tenor of village life, to offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death. Canham shows that Mpondo theory is grounded in and develops in relation to the natural world, where the river and hill are key sites of being and resistance. Central too, is the interface between ancestors and the living, in which life and death become a continuity and a boundlessness that white supremacy and neoliberalism cannot interdict. By charting a course of black life in Mpondoland, Canham tells a story of blackness on the African continent and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download poster <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/KAS-September-20-17.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwpc-iorj0jGtNqGDW4yX_0b31OiFIJKERm#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[282],"cu_event_audience":[190,191,197],"class_list":["post-19147","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2023-09-20T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2023-09-20T02:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"0","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":" AfricanStudies@cunet.carleton.ca ","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19180,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19147\/revisions\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=19147"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=19147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}