Black and Indigenous Geographies of Latin America: Perspectives, Methods, and Community
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/27/2022
Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Time: 9:20 AM
Theme: Expanding the Community of Geography
Sponsor Group(s):
Latinx Geographies Specialty Group
, Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Aída Guhlincozzi
, Deondre Smiles
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Chairs(s):
Aída Guhlincozzi, University of Missouri
; Deondre Smiles, University of Victoria
Description:
As the discipline of Geography has continued to pursue a more critical, decolonial, and anti-racist method and approach to the field, more support and opportunity for scholars doing this work has grown. In particular, areas of the discipline such as Black Geographies, Indigenous Geographies, and Latinx Geographies have many intersections, including in the geographic landscape of Latin America, which creates exciting possibilities for geographic work done on, and in this region. These exciting possibilities are accompanied by the urgent need to uplift and center Latin American voices within geography.
This session seeks to do this by centering and highlighting the work of geographers from Latin America (and located in Latin America or the Global North) whose work focuses on these intersections. This session seeks to bring together and highlight the critical and innovative methods and approaches such scholars bring to their work, and generate discussion on how better as a geographic and scholarly community to center and support this research, and the scholars, activists, and communities who pursue it. We invite submissions from scholars who work in such areas, with particular care to prioritize Global Southern scholars, especially Black, Indigenous and Latinx individuals.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Nohely Guzman, University of California - Los Angeles; Spatialities of embodiment: collective feminist body-mapping with Amazonian indigenous girls and the decolonizing of research |
Elybeth Alcantar, University of Texas at Austin; Collective memory as Indigenous spatial resistance: Witnessing after the Massacre of Nochixtlán |
Rafael Mutis García, CUNY - Graduate Center; Hybrid Ethnobotanies in the Indigenous and AfroIndigenous Andean Pacific in Colombia |
Wesley Carrasco, University of Washington; Insurgent Non-Human Worlds: Understanding Indigenous Diaspora through more-than-human relationships |
Lucas Brasil, ; African Grasses, African knowledge, and the transformation of Colonial Brazil |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
| Role | Participant |
| Discussant | Joaquin Villanueva |
| Discussant | Sylvia Cifuentes Macalester College |
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Black and Indigenous Geographies of Latin America: Perspectives, Methods, and Community
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Aida Guhlincozzi - argvfz@missouri.edu
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