Black matters are spatial matters: Black geographies for the twenty‐first century

Hawthorne, Camilla

doi:10.1111/gec3.12468

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“…Reaching gender equity, intersectional equality, and social justice is therefore not merely a matter of time. The current political climate of right-wing populism, with transnational opposition to sexual and gender equalities (Nash and Browne 2015; G€ okarıksel and Smith 2016), as well as increasing intensities of racism (Inwood 2015;Virdee and McGeever 2018;Hawthorne 2019), instructs us to be careful with such a laisser-aller assumption. To embrace diversity means to identify and transform the power relations that inhabit the discipline as they are sedimented from its masculine, colonial, and imperialist past through our everyday editorial, publishing, and writing practices.…”

Section: Toward Intersectional Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers

Schurr

Müller

Imhof

2020

The Professional Geographer

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Building on the insight that all knowledge is situated and embodied, we analyze the gender of gatekeepers in the production of geographical knowledge in the current Anglophone publication landscape. Our results show that the share of women gatekeepers throughout the three selected sites-handbooks, progress reports, as well as editors and editorial boards of twentytwo geography journals-is consistently between 36 and 42 percent. These averages, however, disguise widely varying figures between different handbooks and journals. Comparing data for journal editors and editorial boards between 1999 and 2017, we find considerable growth in the presence of women. We also show that a higher share of female editors is associated with a higher share of women in editorial boards and in commissioned contributions. Editors and journals therefore need to put gender equity (but also racial and language equality) among the board and among contributors squarely on the agenda to create more space for new theoretical approaches, issues, and methodologies that center the lives and experiences of those living in spaces outside of the white Anglosphere-in the Global South and the Global East but also in the Global North.

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Section: Toward Intersectional Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers

Schurr

Müller

Imhof

2020

The Professional Geographer

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“…Katherine McKittrick’s and Clyde Woods (2007) Black Geographies and the Politics of Place remains a crucial reference point for thinking through Black geographies as a conceptual frame. The authors included in Black Geographies open up terrain for expanding thinking about space through Black women’s thought and practice (see also Bailey and Shabazz 2014; Figueroa 2020; Hawthorne 2019; Mollett and Faria 2018; Perry 2013). The field of reference for Black geographies, though, has remained largely Anglophone (as evidenced, for instance, in Bledsoe and Wright 2019).…”

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“In Front of the World”: Translating Beatriz Nascimento

Smith¹,

Davies

Gomes

2021

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This collection translates some of the work of the influential Black Brazilian thinker and activist Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) for the first time into English, in collaboration with her only daughter, Bethânia Gomes. Historian, poet, theorist and organiser, Beatriz Nascimento was a key figure in Brazil's Black Movement until her untimely death in 1995. She dangerously wrote at the height of Brazil's Military Dictatorship (1964-1985), and theorised extensively on the Black condition in Brazil; the unique experience of Black women; and quilombos-Brazilian maroon societies that she imagined as spaces of both historical and contemporary fugitivity. Following Alex Ratts, this introduction outlines her contribution to radical geography, in particular Black geographies, territoriality and embodiment. It also positions Nascimento within the transAtlantic Black radical tradition. We present two of Nascimento's essays in translation here. The first, "The Concept of Quilombo and Black Cultural Resistance", introduces a crucial strand of her scholarly work, on the history and socio-political significance of quilombos (maroon communities). The second, "For a (New) Existential and Physical Territory", shows Nascimento in a different mood: philosophical, reflective and iconoclastic. In addition, two of her poems-"Dream" and "Sun and Blue"-are also translated here for the first time. Resumo: Esta colec ßão traduz, pela primeira vez para o inglês, e com a colaborac ßão da sua unica filha Bethânia Gomes, alguns dos trabalhos da intelectual e pensadora negra brasileira Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995). Historiadora, poeta, te orica e ativista, Beatriz Nascimento foi uma figura-chave do Movimento Negro no Brasil, at e sua morte prematura em 1995. Corajosamente ativa no auge da Ditadura Militar do Brasil (1964-1985), ela escreveu e teorizou extensivamente sobre a condic ßão do negro no Brasil; a experiencia unica das mulheres negras; e o quilombo-que ela retratou como espac ßo de fuga hist orica e contemporânea. Seguindo Alex Ratts, na introduc ßão descrevemos a contribuic ßão de B. Nascimento para o a geografia radical, procurando situ a-la na tradic ßão radical negra transatlântica. Em seguida, apresentamos dois dos seus ensaios: o primeiro, "O conceito de quilombo e a resistência cultural negra", apresenta uma vertente crucial do seu trabalho acadêmico, centrado na hist oria e no significado sociopol ıtico dos quilombos, com uma abordagem anal ıtica e hist orica; e no segundo, "Por um territ orio (novo) existencial e f ısico", B. Nascimento apresenta uma abordagem diferente: filos ofica, reflexiva e iconoclasta. Afinal, apresentamos tamb em de forma in edita, dois poemas da intelectual vers atil B. Nascimento-"Sonho" e "Sol e Blue".

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“…A starting point for such an exercise would be engagement with work in the field of Black Geographies (cf. Bledsoe & Wright, 2019; Hawthorne, 2019; Hawthorne & Heitz, 2018; McKittrick, 2006; Noxolo, 2020; Shabazz, 2015).…”

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Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography

Esson,

Last

2020

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This special section illustrates how learning and teaching in UK higher education reinforces, but can potentially also help to counteract, racism. This introduction provides some context for this intervention and provides an outline of key themes that emerge from the collection of papers. We use these themes to sketch out three guiding principles for the incorporation of explicitly anti‐racist praxis in our learning and teaching within British Geography: (1) Recognise each other's humanity, (2) Say the unsayable, and (3) Experiment with (y)our history. We call for explicitly anti‐racist praxis while conscious of the “disciplinary fragility” that moves to address racism might elicit. It is argued that an anti‐racist approach to learning and teaching in British Geography has the potential to equip staff and students with the tools to help make our discipline, and wider society, more equitable and just.

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Black matters are spatial matters: Black geographies for the twenty‐first century

Abstract: Katherine McKittrick famously wrote in Demonic Groundsthat "black lives are necessarily geographic, but also struggle with discourses that erase and despatialize their sense of place" (McKittrick, 2006, p. xiii). From analyses of diaspora

Cited by 237 publications

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Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers

Who Makes Geographical Knowledge? The Gender of Geography’s Gatekeepers

“In Front of the World”: Translating Beatriz Nascimento

Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography

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