Mobilizing Historical Geographies 1
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Time: 9:20 AM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Historical Geography Specialty Group
, Black Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Darius Scott
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Chairs(s):
Darius Scott, Dartmouth College
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Description:
“How does one revisit the scene of subjection without replicating the grammar of violence?” Saidiya Hartman asks in her influential essay “Venus in Two Acts,” a piece that serves as a reflection on the ‘how’ of writing histories marred by slavery and colonialism. “How,” she continues, “can narrative embody life in words and at the same time respect what we cannot know?” These vital challenges posed by Saidiya Hartman in 2008 remain, for the most part, unaddressed in Geography today.
This session includes contributions that consider and reflect upon historical methods and the limitations of the archive in the making and writing of politically-engaged historical geographies that work against ongoing plantation and colonizing systems of thought. Contributions will take the form of reflections on past methodological choices or ones not yet realized. Papers will assess the challenges of reaching historical perspectives characteristically silenced by anti-blackness, colonization, and racial capitalism. Others may consider grappling with the biased archives of racial capitalist actors (e.g. governments, institutions, corporations).
Presentation(s), if applicable
Meghan Cope, University of Vermont; Honoring Mothers and Babies: Respectful Historical Geographies of Maternal and Infant Mortality |
Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Kentucky; The Moral Dilemma of How to Document and Archive my Black Family's Land History in the U.S. South |
Ted Rutland, Concordia University; Archives of Suffering and Desire: Describing and Combatting Police and Civilian Racial Violence |
Dena Aufseeser, University of Maryland - Baltimore County; Children’s labor and learning in 20th century US: Is it possible to move beyond ‘child as victim’ when doing archival research? |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
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| Discussant | Willie Wright |
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Mobilizing Historical Geographies 1
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Darius Scott - darius.scott@mcgill.ca
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