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Chairs(s):

Keith Miyake, University of California, Riverside

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Description:

We are interested in collectively discussing and beginning to articulate “Asian/American geographies,” a term that would seem to follow naturally from other such entities (Black geographies, Latinx geographies, Indigenous geographies), but has not yet established any kind of substantial presence in geography. Asian/Americanist scholars have engaged in projects of mapping cartographies and interrogating spatio-temporal relationships of multiple articulations of Asian/American, diasporic, and transnational communities. This panel aims to expand these discourses and the depth of materialist geographical inquiry within Asian/Americanist study, and to bring more Asian/Americanists into critical geographic dialogues. This panel further intends to establish an ongoing space for communal support, belonging, and intellectual conversations between people engaged in Asian/Americanist geographical scholarship. Based on initial conversations, we are interested in the following areas:

- What does a materialist, geographic Asian/American studies look like, or what should it look like? Conversely, what can geography learn from Asian/American studies?
- intersections with, or questions emerging from, Asian/American engagements with critical East Asian, Southeast Asian, and diaspora studies
- relationships to Indigeneity and settler colonialism
- relationships to US militarism and Empire
- relationships to Blackness and anti-Blackness
- broad issues and questions of cultural and place-based memory, loss, and trauma in the present
- queer, feminist, crip, decolonial, radical ecological, and abolitionist theory and praxis
- theory and praxis of solidarities across difference
- questions of pedagogy related to Asian/American studies, geography, and ethnic studies more broadly

We envision a panel/roundtable format where each person will speak for 5-10 minutes and then open up to robust discussion and Q&A.

Non-Presenting Participants Agenda