non-language, closed-door environments: aesthetics and politics of southern moves

Abstract

This review article takes the form of a dialogue to illustrate what a conversation across differences about differences could look and sound like and what happens when we allow memories, books, music, food and language to intertwine as a form of texture rather than a text. In doing so, we shift the stylistic exercise of a review article and suggest in form and content that the Global South, as a political imagination, is a landscape of the senses that spans the intimate and the geopolitical. In using the metaphor of landscape, we suggest that a political imagination is less a conscious response or activity and that the Global South is certainly not a tragic result of politics.