Mobilizing Historical Geographies 2
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 9:40 AM
End Time: 11:00 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):
Mona Domosh, 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
Darius Scott, McGill University; Ephemera from the End of the World |
Celeste Winston, ; The radical promise of holding ground in the archives |
Jane Henderson, ; Against Discovery Doctrines in Minnesota’s Black History |
Sarah de Leeuw, University of Northern British Columbia; Lot: Poetry Against Coloniality’s Logic in Archives about Haida Gwaii |
Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College; Reading Along the Grain and Against Racial Capitalism |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
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| Discussant | Kathryn Yusoff |
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Mobilizing Historical Geographies 2
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Darius Scott - darius.scott@mcgill.ca
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