{"product_id":"faultlines-in-the-long-duree-of-human-history-genealogies-trajectories-and-horizons-paperback","title":"Faultlines in the Long Durée of Human History Genealogies, Trajectories and Horizons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do human beings ceaselessly draw lines between those who belong and those who do not? In this urgent and ambitious book, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni argues that the division between insider and outsider is at once the oldest and the most contemporary of human inventions-a dialectic rather than a mere distinction, in which the two terms produce and presuppose one another. Ranging across the long durée of human history, from the founding myths and hospitality ethics of pre-colonial societies to the abyssal lines of the present, he shows how a fluid grammar of incorporation was hardened by modernity\/coloniality into a permanent, racialised, and hereditary line dividing the human from the less-than-human. Extending V. Y. Mudimbe's meditation on African fault lines and his own concept of the epistemic line, Ndlovu- Gatsheni gathers the colour line of Du Bois, the abyssal thinking of Santos, the coloniality of being, and the gender line into a single intersecting architecture. He confronts the most lethal manifestations of our conjuncture: Trumpism and the deportation regime, the genocide in Gaza, and the anti-foreigner violence captured in the South African chant of abahambe. Yet this is no melancholic catalogue of injuries. Refusing both nostalgia and despair, the book reaches towards the pluriverse-a world in which many worlds fit, where the migrant is reimagined as the harbinger of a shared and breathable planet. The line was drawn by human hands; by human hands it can be unlearned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a masterpiece from Africa's most important decolonial thinker... [it] covers one of the blind spots of decolonial theory: the differences and transformations between the structures of domination from pre-colonial times to the present... Anyone interested in the mutations of... faultlines... must read this book!!\" - Ramon Grosfoguel, Emeritus Professor at University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Faultlines arrives ready to fight. It steps into a global political arena where inequality and uncertainty have bolstered divides... [and] beautifully braids multiple cases... to illustrate how race, religion, gender, and nationality are now stockades used to categorically exclude peoples from a collective future. It... offers guidance on how unsettling knowledges can erode these barriers for the benefit of a common humanity.'' - Loren B Landau, Professor of Migration and Development, University of Oxford and University of the Witwatersrand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this ground-breaking analysis... Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni not only illuminates the constitutive mutuality between the genealogies and contemporary trajectories of exclusion but also advances a compelling vision of pluriversal futures... It is an insightful and timely read... It is a must read!'' - Inocent Moyo, Professor and National Research Foundation (NRF) SARCHI Chair on Borders and the African Continental Free Trade Area, University of Zululand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a tour de force through one of the most pressing problems of our time... Africa's foremost decolonial thinker Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a powerful tool to understand the history of the inclusive-exclusive present... A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the deep underbelly of 'us' and 'them.'\" - Stefan Ouma, Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48628771815645,"sku":"9789956004768","price":69.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/bE2znmYcq29789956004768.webp?v=1789786268","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/faultlines-in-the-long-duree-of-human-history-genealogies-trajectories-and-horizons-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}