A Discussion of Unstable Ground by Rosalind Morris, Columbia University

Rosalind Morris is an anthropologist, cultural theorist and documentarian who is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (2025, winner of the CU Press Distinguished Book Prize for 2025); For Lack of a Dictionary: poems (2025) and the edited volume, Reconocimientos: A Memoir of Becoming, by Rafael Sanchez. Her media works include the award-winning documentary film, We are Zama Zama, and the flexible multi-channel installation, 'The Zama Zama Project,' which was an official selection of the Berlinale Forum Expanded in 2021. She is also co-librettist, with Yvette Christiansë of the operas, Southern Crossings and Cities of Salt.