- Title
- Cosmolocal orientations: trickster spatialization and the politics of cultural bargaining in Zambia
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146044
- Identifier
- vital:38490
- Identifier
- DOI 10.1080/19301944.2018.1532379
- Description
- The spatialization of Africa is fraught, and places within Africa tend to be stereotyped by geographies of morality and simplistic rural/urban divides. Focusing on the spatial, cultural, and political bargaining of contemporary chiefs and cultural festivals in 21st-century Zambia, this article delinks cosmopolitanism and Afropolitanism from the city and associated attitudes of urbanity. Positioning place as a trickster character, it argues for a nuanced understanding of time-space imaginaries that refuses to bind people and identities to closed-down notions of place. In this article I propose the term cosmolocal, suggesting that the cosmolocal is an outward-engaging orientation that understands place as a profoundly discursive and situational process and that has the potential to exist anywhere. Many contemporary chiefs in Zambia embrace cosmolocalism, enabling them to escape the limitations of being viewed merely as custodians of culture who are limited to the space of the village framed historically as the warehouse of culture.
- Format
- 24 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical Interventions
- Relation
- Simbao, R., 2018. Cosmolocal Orientations: Trickster Spatialization and the Politics of Cultural Bargaining in Zambia. Critical Interventions, 12(3), pp.251-274.
- Relation
- Critical Interventions volume 12 number 3 251 274 August 2019 2326-411X
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Simbao, Ruth (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa
RU Department of Fine Art
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