The Blues in Black Ecologies: An Exploration of the Literature
Topics: Black Geographies
, Environmental Justice
, American South
Keywords: Black ecologies, Blues epistemology, Black geographies, Spatial theory, Southern Land-based Resistance
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Sunday
Session Start / End Time: 2/27/2022 09:40 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/27/2022 11:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 40
Authors:
Mia Charlene White, The New School
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Abstract
This paper builds on efforts to theorize “Black Ecologies” (Hare, 1970; Roane and Hosbey, 2019) by putting the concept into conversation with related approaches to understanding Black spatial knowledge, such as “Blues epistemologies” (Woods, 2007; White, 2021) and the broader sub-discipline “Black geographies” (McKittrick, 2006/2007). To accomplish this a special literature review will be created, including a selection of Black writing on nature, African American environmental history, and Black approaches to the commons, in order to contribute to a growing archive of interdisciplinary methods focused on race, space and land-based politics. A double case study vignette of land-based organizing will also be interpreted through this targeted literature in order to provide students in geography, urban history/planning, environmental studies and Black studies, an experimental model for narrating the nature of spatial resistance projects in the US South.
Citations
Hare, N. (1970). Black Ecology. The Black Scholar, 1(6), 2–8.
McKittrick, Katherine (2006) Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
McKittrick, Katherine, and Clyde Woods. Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007
Roane, J.T. and Hosbey, Justin (2019), Mapping Black Ecologies. Current Research in Digital History. volume 2 (2019)
Roane, J.T. “Plotting the Black Commons.” Souls Journal 20, no. 3 (2019): 239–266.
White, M. 2021. “Love: A Blues Epistemology from the Undercommons”, in Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives. Valiz Press, 2021.
The Blues in Black Ecologies: An Exploration of the Literature
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