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Chairs(s):

Carrie Freshour, University of Washington

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Description:

With questions and considerations of the archive a central theoretical and analytical concern among Black studies, Critical Race and Ethnic studies, and Indigenous studies, Geography has begun to increasingly embrace these fields’ rich engagement with the archive and archival research. In particular, the subdisciplines of Critical geography, Black geographies, Feminist geography, Queer geographies, Urban geography, and Indigenous and Settler Colonial geographies have found new meaning within the archive as the archive and archival research have come to represent a central part of spatial processes.

These sessions consider archival research, the archive, and textuality more broadly, as central to methodological approaches situated within the discipline of Geography. Quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches often engage archival data sources, local histories, and institutional data as key to understanding human-social, spatial, and human-environmental relationships. These papers address critical geographic approaches to archival research and the ways textual and material analysis is central to spatial inquiry. We are especially interested in a framing of this discussion that considers how critical geographers engaging in theories of race, gender, and coloniality develop and navigate approaches to historical and contemporary research methods, vis a vis textual and material practice. As such we envision an expansive approach to the archive and archival research that builds upon geographic methods and methodological practice.

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