02628     2200265   4500001000600000011001400006100004100020101000800061102000700069110001600076200025200092210004400344215003700388300002300425326001500448330148500463461011001948463008102058700004702139801003802186801003302224830000802257856003202265856006502297104700 a2402-5895  a20230120a2015    m  y0frey50      ba0 aeng  aFR  amg|z|||||||1 aThe Funambulist N°65bNUMPfLéopold Lamberte Politics of Space and Bodies. e Politiques de l'espace et des corps. e Fifty Years After Soweto.e June 1976–2026 : An anniversary issue on South(ern) African past, present, and future politics.  aParis cThe FunambulistdMay–Jun 2026  cCouv.Ill.Coul. a84 p.d20 × 25  aTextes en anglais   aBimestriel  aOn June 16, 1976—28 years into the apartheid and, crucially, more than three centuries into European settler colonialism at the southern tip of the African continent—thousands of Black African children and teenagers in Soweto, a township south of Johannesburg, initiated a movement. They were protesting the imposition of Afrikaans as a language of instruction in their schools. Fifty years later, we honor the memory of this uprising by questioning South(ern) African historical and present politics. Accompanied by striking historical photos (in particular Peter Magubane‘s) and artworks (Lungiswa Gqunta with words by Nombuso Mathibela), the issue examines the space-time of the townships (Noor Nieftagodien), bantustans (Neo Maditla and Mpho Moshe Matheolane), the ocean (Kelly Gillespie and Traci Kwaai), as well as the relationships between Anglo and Boer settler colonialism with the land (Panashe Chigumadzi), deathscapes (Hugo ka Canham), ancestralization and time (Zara Julius and uMbuso weNkosi), and racialized nationalism (Alex Hotz). 

In the News from the Fronts section, you can read texts about Vanuatu’s anticolonial solidarity with its Melanesian relatives’ struggles (Anna Naupa) and an analysis of the past decade of the Moroccan monarchy’s authoritarian, neoliberal and colonial policies in Morocco and Western Sahara (Omar Radi), as well as an architecture thesis research on amphibious landscapes in a fisher village of Bombay (Sharvin Jangle).  aLéopold LambertcParis dN°1 (Septembre 2015)tThe Funambulistuhttps://thefunambulist.net/x2402-5895  aLéopold LambertcParis tThe Funambulistx2402-5895dMay–Jun 2026vN°65  4Rédacteur en chef  aLambertbLéopold  0aFRbFR-751131015c20230120gAFNOR 0aTNb32Bisc20261106gUNIMARC  aABA4 uhttps://thefunambulist.net/4 uhttps://thefunambulist.net/magazine/fifty-years-after-soweto