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Abstract
This article reflects on how the contemporary relationship between movement and space can be reversed so that movement regains priority over space in the experience of life. Its key argument is that movement has potential to take priority over space but only via the logic of the gift. The logic of the gift has potential to undermine the privilege colonial modernity accords to space over movement because its conception of exchange challenges exchange as a construct of economic logic central to the experience of modernity. The article focuses on the gift as is found in the work of John Milbank and the African religious archive. It tries to show that along with Milbank’s imagination of the gift, the gift as a construct of the African religious archive stands to contribute in the fight against the continuing alienation brought about by the project of modernity. This is because it imagines the sacred dimension primarily via the terrain of the family.Contribution: This article contributes to a reading of capitalism via the logic of the gift as a construct of the African religious archive and does so by borrowing from the work of theologians. In doing so, it tries to present a different way of thinking about gift giving in relation to the African religious expression, which has until the recent past been dominated by anthropologists.
Highlights
The key concern of this article is the relationship between movement and space happening under conditions of the experience of modernity in South Africa after apartheid
The article takes interest in this topic against a backdrop of the reversal, beginning with colonialism, of the relationship between movement and space in which case the latter gains priority over the former. This happens because economic logic drives the experience of colonialism and relies on race to realise its objectives
In order to reflect on how the colonial relationship between movement and space can be reversed to realise movement as freedom and thereby deal with the problem of multiplicity, this article engages with the idea of the gift as found in the work of John Milbank and the African religious archive
Summary
The key concern of this article is the relationship between movement (understood as creative and barrier-breaking circulation and flow of human beings in their difference) and space (the ordered human geographies or territories) happening under conditions of the experience of modernity in South Africa after apartheid. This question is of significance because the end of apartheid and the dawn of democracy mark continuity with the logic of colonial modernity, which privileges space over movement in order to elevate race as a category informing social relations.
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