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Experiments in the Dark

Visualizing Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar

Pamila Gupta

University of Michigan Press, 2027

What kind of history are photographs? Experiments in the Dark explores this question through the lens of a twentieth-century East African Indian Ocean photo studio collection, Capital Arts Studio (CAS), and its proprietors Ranchhod and Rohit Oza in Stone Town, Zanzibar. Pamila Gupta gathers and reads a range of photographs and genres from the studio, exploring how they relate to Zanzibar’s vibrant visual cultures during the Omani sultanate, British colonial, and postrevolution periods. Gupta’s reading of this little-known photographic archive brings the work into a broader historical context of the Indian Ocean in a visual archive that has endured despite the forces of history.

Through a blend of archival reconstruction and curation, personal reflection, and interviews with Rohit Oza, the son of the studio’s founder Ranchhod Oza, Gupta focuses on the construction and curation of the CAS collection and what this archive can tell us about the South Asian and Goan diasporas, the wider Indian Ocean world, African fashion, urban lives, and image making in Zanzibar from 1930 to 2024.

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The Global South

Histories, Politics, Maps

Pamela Gupta, Christopher Lee, Marissa Moorman, and Sandhya Shukla, special issue editors

Duke University Press, 2018

This special issue of Radical History Review offers a range of perspectives on the intellectual formation of the global South. Spanning time periods and objects of study across the global South, the essays develop new theoretical frameworks for thinking about geography, inequality, and subjectivity. Contributors investigate the construction of gender and racial formation in the global South and also explore what is politically and theoretically at stake in considering under-studied places like Guyana, or peripheries like Melanesia.  One essay considers how encounters between spaces in the global South, specifically between Lebanon and West Africa, help to refocus attention from the preoccupations of northern nations with their former colonies to the frictions of decolonization. Several articles focus on the role of popular culture in regard to the geopolitical formation of the global South, with topics ranging from film to music to the career of Muhammad Ali.

Contributors: Afro-Asian Networks Research Collective, Phineas Bbaala, Emily Callaci, Aharon de Grassi, Pamila Gupta, Mingwei Huang, Sean Jacobs, Maurice Jr. M. LaBelle, Christopher J. Lee, Roseann Liu, Marissa J. Moorman, Michelle Moyd, Ronald C. Po, Savannah Shange, Sandhya Shukla, Pahole Sookkasikon, Quito Swan, Sarah Van Beurden, Sarah E. Vaughn, Jelmer Vos, Keith B. Wagner
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