Sharad Chari explores the how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban.

List of Illustrations  ix Abbreviations  xiii Prelude: What Remains?  xvii Maps  xxvii Introduction. Detritus in Durban, 2002–2008  1 Part I: Racial Palimpsest 1. Remains of a Camp: Biopolitical Fantasies of a “White Man’s Country,” 1902–1904  33 2. Settlements of Memory: Forgeries of Life in Common, 1900–1930s  61 3. Ruinous Foundations of Progressive Segregation, 1920s–1930s  97 4. The Birth of Biopolitical Struggle, 1940s  133 5. The Science Fiction of Apartheid’s Spatial Fix, 1948–1970s  157 Part II: Remains of Revolution 6. The Theologico-Political Moment, 1970s  197 7. The Insurrectionist Moment: Armed Struggle, 1960s–1980s  227 8. The Moment of Urban Revolution, 1980s  257 9. The Moment of the Disqualified, 1980s–2000s  303 Conclusion. Accumulating Remains, Rhythms of Expectation  339 Coda. Black Atlantic to Indian Ocean: Afrofuture as the Common  345 Acknowledgments  347 Notes  353 Bibliography  403 Index