Black Geographies Specialty Group and Queer+Trans Geographies Specialty Group Joint Plenary
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 3:40 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group
, Queer and Trans Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Camilla Hawthorne
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, Edgar Sandoval
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Chairs(s):
Camilla Hawthorne, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Description:
"On Refuge: Monstrosity, Seriality, Solidarity"
C. Riley Snorton, University of Chicago
Drawn from my next project, Mud: Ecologies of Racial Meaning, this talk reflects on the meanings of refuge and reads across time and place to attend to the narratives of maroons and refugees who have taken up residence in swamps. Narratives about swamp people and swamp things punctuate the story of the New World, from the maroon communities constituted by Native peoples and formerly enslaved Africans in the Caribbean mangroves and North America at least as early as the early sixteenth century. As a place that is neither land nor water but both, the swamp functions as material ground--the “terra infirma”-- for a series of considerations about difference, onto-epistemological change, time, life, and death. Grounded in and in excess of the Green Swamp in Florida and the Honey Island Swamp on the border of Mississippi and Louisiana, this talk focuses on the narratives and serial remediations of the Wild Man of the Green Swamp and the Honey Island Swamp Monster, otherwise known as “The Thing” which I argue, signal a collapse in modern (racial) representation and offer different modalities for imagining and enacting solidarity.
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Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
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Panelist | C. Riley Snorton |
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Black Geographies Specialty Group and Queer+Trans Geographies Specialty Group Joint Plenary
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
Camilla Hawthorne - camilla@ucsc.edu