Citing you on behalf of an other digital geographical imagination

Abstract

In replying to Natalie Oswin’s ‘An Other Geography’, I extend Oswin’s argument for ‘solidarities across modes of difference’ to the place of the scholarly Internet, through the specific case of citation practices. The scholarly Internet—ranging across platforms such as Google Scholar, Socarxiv, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu , to social media including the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram—affords new connections and communities, particularly over citations that further give voice to the marginalized, erased, and oppressed of geography that Oswin centers in her article. At the same time, most of these software reproduce whiteness, sexism, heteronormativity, ableism, and colonialism in their algorithmic biases. I urge geographers to reconsider their attachments to and expectation of the scholarly Internet, particularly around citation practices. Instead, I call for practices of survival for Others that must necessarily include, in the words of Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne, conscientious engagement and disengagement.

For a spatial politics of dignity

“…If we take this premise seriously, then it's not just that dignity has something to offer urban geography but also that critical urban (and nonurban) geographical scholarship, particularly that emerging from Black, Indigenous, and Latinx geographies, theorizations of racial capitalism, abolition geographies, decolonial geographies, and feminist geographies, has much to offer to a dialogue about dignity. Scholars working in these subfields can help us think in nuanced ways about the formations that constrain dignity, not least of which is the role that geography has played therein (Curley and Smith, 2020;Eaves, 2020;Faria and Mollett, 2020;Gieseking, 2020;Heynen, 2020;Oswin, 2020;Roy, 2020a). They offer insights into how people organize at 'novel resolutions' (Gilmore, 2008: 36), shedding light on the importance of alternative spatial imaginaries and epistemologies to praxes of liberation.…”