Territorializing Memory (1)
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 3:40 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Theme:
Sponsor Group(s):
Political Geography Specialty Group
, Development Geographies Specialty Group
, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group
,
,
,
,
,
,
Organizer(s):
Stefan Norgaard
, Miranda Meyer
,
,
Chairs(s):
Stefan Norgaard, Columbia University
; Miranda Meyer, CUNY Graduate Center
Description:
CFP AAG 2022: In-Person Paper Session
TERRITORIALIZING MEMORY (1)
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York, New York, February 25 – March 1, 2022
Session organizers:
Miranda Meyer, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (mmeyer@gradcenter.cuny.edu)
Stefan Norgaard, Columbia University, New York, NY (spn2121@columbia.edu)
Sponsored by the Development Geographies, Political Geography, Socialist and Critical Geography, and Urban Geography Specialty Groups.
Description:
How does territory function as a memory practice? Though relational understandings of territory have advanced our understanding of its economic, military, sovereign, technical, and cartographic workings (Brighenti, 2006; Elden, 2013a, 2013b; Sack, 1986; Winichakul, 1997), its mnemonic dimensions have been “somewhat neglected” (Paasi, 2020: 79). We aim to bring together political geography’s relational perspective on territory and cultural geography’s literature on geographies of memory and memorialized landscapes (Alderman and Inwood, 2013; Barron, 2017; Duncan and Duncan, 2010; Foote, 2003). Territory supports a wide range of practices with clear memorial significance: it hosts imagined communities (including but not limited to the nation), undergirds sovereignty and identity narratives, enables or disables ecological relationships and affinities; it encompasses places and landscapes of mnemonic significance, and its acquisition or loss is commemorated. Constituting places as a given territory affects which pasts can be remembered, represented, and practiced by whom, and to what effect. The topic bears on the AAG Annual Meeting themes of climate justice, geographies of access and inclusion, ethnonationalism and exclusion around the world, and the changing North American continent. The proposed analytic of territory as a memory practice allows us to discuss modes of exclusion and differentiation alongside alternate solidarities, sovereignties, and territorializations, or more socially and ecologically just territorial memory practices.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Katrina Stack, ; Commemorative Audits of Contested Space: The Challenges of Researching and Reforming Place Names at US Military Archives |
Adam Lundberg, Uppsala University; Re-placing Landscapes Remembered: Yael Bartana and the Redemption of Germania |
Rupak Shrestha, University of Colorado Boulder; “History ties us to this place”: Territorial Amnesia, Placemaking, and Belonging |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Discussant | Miranda Meyer |
Introduction | Stefan Norgaard Columbia University |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Territorializing Memory (1)
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Stefan Norgaard - stefan.norgaard@gmail.com