MIREMBE

In my new @BostonReview essay, “The Land Question,” I contend that “within the liberal international order, it is ‘reasonable’ and ‘workable’ to struggle to end apartheid and racial segregation, while it is ‘unreasonable’ and ‘unworkable’ to struggle to end settler colonialism and indigenous land dispossession.” 'Apartheid' is overrepresented in global left discourse and historiography, dangerously obscuring more foundational questions of structural dispossession. In this critique of liberalism's apartheid paradigm informed by South Africa's Black Consciousness-Pan Africanist Tradition (the Azanian Tradition), I map out the historical geopolitics of the land question and indigenous sovereignty across the world. bostonreview.net/articles/th…