Mobilizing Historical Geographies 3
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 11:20 AM
End Time: 12:40 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Historical Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Mona Domosh
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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
LaToya Eaves, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; From social relevance to social justice: Thinking intersectionally with Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Ellen Churchill Semple about geography |
Kevin Gould, Concordia University; Memorializing the manumission of an enslaved African: tracing the contours of violence and the unknowable in a fragmented colonial archive |
Matthew Hannah, Universität Bayreuth; Historical geography, (auto)biography and intersectional privilege |
Ruth Craggs, ; Capturing experiences of academic geographers under apartheid: racism, resistance, solidarity |
Abdul Aijaz, ; Between a name and a number: The story of a colonial erasure |
Ilaria Giglioli, University of San Francisco; Unmaking the Mediterranean border. From colonial coexistence to a decolonized Mediterranean |
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Mobilizing Historical Geographies 3
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Darius Scott - darius.scott@mcgill.ca
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