Mapping Injury: Colonial Legacies

Communities across the Global South experience harms, defined in our research project as ‘injuries’, due to violent conflict, and wider exploitative practices that impact lives, environments, public spaces, and infrastructures designed to meet the needs of societies. All such practices have deep roots in colonial violence and dispossession, and they continue to define relations globally.

Focusing on Colombia, Lebanon, Nigeria and South Africa, the exhibition reveals cartographies of dispossession that come to be enshrined in juridical instruments of control. It shows visual and textual evidence of symbolic and administrative power evident in the government of populations through racialised and sectarian division and co-optation.

The exhibition traces the intersection of colonial power and resistance, highlighting the emergence of agency and resistance in the face of colonial and apartheid institutionalised violence. It also reveals the complex global entanglements implicated, the evidence and ramifications of which remain with us to the present day.

This exhibition is for reference only. It forms part of the Mapping Injury project, based at King’s College London. All visual matter is reproduced with permissions. The exhibition can be cited as follows:

Mapping Injury, UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee, King’s College London, www.mappinginjury.org/exhibition.