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Exit Wounds: Colonial Legacies of Subject Formation in Present-Day Parole in South Africa (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)
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This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project proposes a legal historical ethnography of the liberal legal institution of parole as a site to explore the assimilation of colonial subjectivities into post-apartheid governance and social relations. It poses the question of how the institution mediates between the universalist liberal aspirations of law, and continued racial oppression and hierarchy in post-apartheid South...