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Troubling the Waters: An Introduction
Topics: Black Geographies
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Keywords: Theory Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Sunday Session Start / End Time: 2/27/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/27/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 60
Authors:
denisse andrade, The Graduate Center
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Abstract
This paper takes the form of a collaborative reflection with session co-organizer Rachel Goffe. Together we consider the expansiveness of water as a site that enables Black life and death, and more specifically, a site through which to articulate Black geographies as theory, praxis, and method. Th title of the session is a invitation to think of water as bordering territories and nation-states but also defying them; as vast but knowable, and as a force that has widened and closed modes of escape, solidarities, and subjectivities (including our own).
We are similarly interested in how water conceptually allows us to think beyond the disciplinary and geographic epicenters of knowledge production where Black geographies is discussed.