“What kind of world can be built from sterile and lifeless sand and land that has no roots, no history, and no memory, except for the violent extraction from its homeland?”
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Bava Dharani
U Bava Dharani (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Her research aims to interrogate how colonial and racial logics have informed the construction of Singapore as the Green Financial Hub of Asia. Bava is especially grateful to scholars that have developed conceptual frameworks such as racial capitalism, decolonial ecology, and postcolonial theory.