Mobilizing Historical Geographies 4
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:20 PM
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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
Andrew Davies, ; Walking, talking and learning about anti-black violence in Liverpool: Developing and delivering a 1919 port city riots tour. |
Joaquin Villanueva, Gustavus Adolphus College; Phantom places against archival power: The Puerto Rican Planning Board and the ghost of El Fanguito |
Caroline Bressey, ; Hostile environments: historical geographies of Black men in English Victorian prisons. |
Allison Guess, ; The Night(mare) After Christmas When 'They tried to Take Control Over the Land': 1521 Santo Domingo Rebellion |
Veronica Jacome, Temple University; A Historical Account of Bad Service Users |
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Mobilizing Historical Geographies 4
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Darius Scott - darius.scott@mcgill.ca
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