Refiguring heat, affect, and black social life | mpho ndaba | TEDxJohannesburg Salon

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In his talk, mpho a. ndaba presents a carefully curated movement in parts. Drawing on the form of the jazz symphony, he narrates the relationship between Black life and heat across geographies. This talk examines how climate-mediated racial segregation shapes the lived experience of Black people in post-1994 South Africa, interrogating how social sovereignty is also eroded by the ecological and the natural. mpho ndaba is a writer, business strategist, producer, and transdisciplinary scholar. mpho's intellectual inquiries sit at the intersections of Black Studies, Black Planetary Studies, Environmental Humanities, Critical Queer Studies, Black Sonic Studies, Critical Urban Studies, and Change Leadership. At the core of mpho's thinking, life is a sustained inquiry around the historical processes that inaugurated alienation in Black psychic life. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.

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