{"product_id":"the-funambulist-44-the-desert-nov-dec-2022","title":"The Funambulist #44 | The Desert | Nov\/Dec 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eContinental lives and Anti-Colonial Struggles in the Arid, Plentiful Lands of the Sahara, the Atacama, the Gibson, the Kgalagadi, the Dhofar, and the Taklimakan deserts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWelcome to the 44th issue of The Funambulist, which we are dedicating to desert epistemes and political struggles from its peoples. It is however important to problematize this very term “desert,” as it is fundamentally an exogenous (if not colonial) designation suggesting absence rather than presence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond this critique of this term, this issue is built on the intuition that there is a certain commonality between the living environments designated by it. This commonality might somehow be expressed as continentality, as a sort of response to what we had called “oceanity” in our 39th issue (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thefunambulist.net\/magazine\/the-ocean\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Ocean… From the Black Atlantic to the Sea of Islands, Jan-Feb 2022\u003c\/a\u003e). To insist on this response, we commissioned \u003cstrong\u003eMaya Mihindou\u003c\/strong\u003e to create the cover artwork, just like for issue 39.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs for the contributions themselves, they describe uranium extractivism as experienced by Touaregs in Niger (\u003cstrong\u003eMaïa Tellit Hawad\u003c\/strong\u003e), the “invention of deserts” as colonial engineering and epistemecide against Nubian people (\u003cstrong\u003eMenna Agha\u003c\/strong\u003e), the importance of the desert in Raul Zurita’s poetry against the Chilean dictatorship (\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Borzutzky\u003c\/strong\u003e), the impact of the life and death of Aboriginal artist Mr. Ward in the colonized Gibson desert (\u003cstrong\u003eJan Turner\u003c\/strong\u003e), forced Uyghur labor and the Han militarization of the Taklimakan desert (\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Ross\u003c\/strong\u003e), the nuclear bombing of the Algerian Sahara, the Turkestan, the Naqab, and the Gobi deserts (\u003cstrong\u003eSamia Henni\u003c\/strong\u003e), Namibian revolutionaries’ farming communities in the Kgalagadi desert (\u003cstrong\u003eAsher Gamedze\u003c\/strong\u003e), and the Dhofar Revolution as an alternative Arab history to the Levantine paradigm (\u003cstrong\u003eAhmad Makia\u003c\/strong\u003e).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis issue’s News from the Fronts are about the legacy of the 1991 anti-racist uprising in Brussels (\u003cstrong\u003eJoachim Ben Yakoub \u0026amp; Baobab van de\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTeranga\u003c\/strong\u003e), the fight against the military coup in Burma (\u003cstrong\u003eMe Me Khant\u003c\/strong\u003e), and Dutch colonial gentrification in Curaçao (\u003cstrong\u003eJermain Ostiana\u003c\/strong\u003e).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Photo Plus UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56799575605632,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/5139\/0502\/files\/the-funambulist-44-vignette-900x900-c.jpg?v=1761917006","url":"https:\/\/photo-plus.uk\/products\/the-funambulist-44-the-desert-nov-dec-2022","provider":"Photo Plus UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}