Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism

Moulton, Alex A.; Salo, Inge

doi:10.3167/ares.2022.130110

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“…hooks, 2014). One body of inchoate political ecology scholarship is on Black ecologies and articulations of how Black narratives subvert hegemonic understandings of ecological change, biopolitics, and racial capitalism (Gill, 2021a; Moulton and Salo, 2022; Murphy et al, 2021). Similarly, decolonial praxis of not only critique but also seeking liberatory potentialities through affinity, kinship, and connection across differences are emerging sites of radical praxis.…”

Section: Methodological Interventions Pedagogical Inversions and New ...mentioning

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Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research

Sultana

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Praxis is central to political ecology scholarship but replete with tensions and ambiguities. This report explores advancements in praxis across epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, and political dimensions. Praxis in political ecology has benefited from detailed insights drawn from Indigenous, decolonial, postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and multi-species scholarship, among others. Attention to praxis allows for enriched research that has the potential to be useful and transformational for marginalized communities and better inform policy-making. Political ecology can remain relevant and meaningful when praxis is foregrounded and reflexively interrogated and performed for both intellectual advancements and radical socio-ecological justice.

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Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research

Sultana

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…It also shows the plurality of Black geographies itself (Bledsoe and Wright, 2019) and “the critical cartographies of African American Freedom Struggle” (Alderman et al, 2021). Moulton and Salo give a macro-review that guides this move towards abolitionist agrarian geographies: “Black geographies and Black ecologies hold the promise of abolitionist futures, ecological justice, and repair at multiple levels because Black place making, epistemologies, and poetics—the Black radical tradition—have always foregrounded addressing the debilitating effects of the colonial plantations and settler-colonial exploitation, racial capitalism, and (white) anthropo-centrism in material and not just symbolic space” (2022: 166).…”

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Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky

Graddy‐Lovelace

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This agrarian geography of Kentucky begins on the streets of the state's largest city, in the throes of antiracist struggle. It tracks the state's lingering colonial settler power dynamics through the racism of plantation, extraction, and carceral geographies. It then traces how resistance to these exploitations take root in place-based agri-food initiatives unfolding through urban-rural solidarity against white supremacist policing, prison systems, labor exploitation, and extractivism. It begins with a brief overview of the scale of reference of Kentucky itself. Situating the state entails addressing the trauma and topophilia (love of landscape) of its agrarian past and present. It draws upon bell hooks’ literary invocations of Kentucky-based agrarian visions, as well as place-based political ecology scholarship (seven years of Kentucky Agrarian Questions practitioner panels at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference at University of Kentucky). Following Black and abolitionist geographies, this agrarian geography traces rural and urban shared struggles for food sovereignty, environmental justice, and liberation from racism of carceral systems. It introduces Kentucky grassroots projects connecting and uniting rural and urban struggles against carceral violence and the racism therein, such as Hood to the Holler (a political initiative emerging from Black Lives Matter mobilizations for Breonna Taylor). The essay ends with reflections on the political-ecological contradictions and imperative of working through and beyond a settler-colonial-state scale of reference like Kentucky. To extricate from and dismantle plantation modes and carceral legacies, abolitionist agrarian geographies recover the reality of Black and Indigenous agrarian history, presence, and futures. As such, rooted in place-based reckoning, resistance, and responsibility, they offer hope.

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“…Analyzing how "mainstream" human geographies are naturalized enables us to apprehend space itself as a site of struggle, and as such, the terrain of Black geographiesnot as peripheral or marginal places, but lived places "right in the middle of our historically present landscapes" (McKittrick 2006;7). In other words, Black geographies are there all along, unintelligible to but entangled with colonial cartographies, i.e., "plots-andplantations," the blues, homeplaces, and undergrounds (Dunnavant et al, this issue;Harney and Moten 2013;hooks 1990;McKittrick 2021;Moulton & Salo 2022;Woods 1998). They occur "when globally subordinated peoples mov[e] out of their Western assigned places and [call] into question the structures of the world system…a rebellious methodological moment that enunciates black [and nonwhite] life… [and] the unfinished possibilities of collective struggle" (McKittrick 2021, 41).…”

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Becoming Fugitive

Gross-Wyrtzen,

Vázquez López

2023

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<p>This article tells the stories of illegalized migrant people moving through two violent, transcontinental borderscapes: the EurAfrican border that spans Western Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and pushes further south each year across Africa; and the American border that stretches from the interior of the United States, through Mexico and Central America, and into South America and the Caribbean. Comparative analysis of these borderscapes reveals similar logics, practices, and policies of border enforcement, as well as strategies that migrant people use to subvert them. We argue that fugitivity provides a critical lens for understanding the co-constitution of borders and border transgression, and reveals how the border manufactures its objects—producing fugitive subjects, spaces, and relations across expanding spatial and temporal distances. As a lens rooted in histories of racialized control over human mobility, fugitivity allows us to chart contemporary territorializations of racial domination through bordering alongside constant challenges to these territorializations through movement. Ultimately, fugitivity provides a method that not only maps out the violence and failures of bordering, but one that imagines alternative geographies emanating from the underground of marginalized people, spaces, and relationships.</p>

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Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism

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Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research

Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research

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