Zandi Sherman

Zandi Sherman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and a Master’s Degree in Global Studies jointly awarded by the Universities of Cape Town and Freiburg. Her research, writing, and activism focus on racial capitalism and the relation between material infrastructures and colonial logics of extraction and accumulation. She has published work on the South African diamond industry and how its technologies of extraction were both dependent on and productive of race. Zandi is a co-founding member of Sociable Weavers, a queer African collective nurturing alternatives to capitalism through socio-ecological regeneration. The collective is currently developing a curriculum for a year-long school focused on preserving African traditions of radical interdependence and crafting new refusals of capitalism’s modes of relation.