Fear of an other geography

Abstract

Geography has failed to accommodate ‘indigenous ways of knowing’. To do so requires transforming and shifting power relations to account for the landscapes of white supremacy and imperialist practices that shape epistemological, pedagogical, and departmental climates. This commentary responds to Oswin’s call for mobilizing and building ‘an other geography’ by nodding toward the creation of the Black Geographies Specialty Group. In particular, it interweaves autoethnographic reflections on the body and provocations about the history of the discipline to illustrate another perspective on Oswin’s frustrations with stagnant, contained geographic practice.

WITHDRAWN – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance

“…Feminist, decolonizing and antiracist critiques attend to the blatant disregard of violence in intimate and domestic domains, the way these intersect with other political violences, and the whiteness of analysis (Cuomo, 2013;Daley, 2008;Federici, 2019;Fluri and Piedalue, 2017;Gilmore, 2009;Holmes, 2009). The significant insights of Black and Indigenous geographies in producing historically-rooted intersectional accounts of political violence and structural inequalities as a condition of life still too often go unacknowledged (Eaves, 2020;Gilmore, 2017;McKittrick, 2011;McKittrick and Woods, 2007;Smith, 1999;Woods and Gilmore, 2017). More recently, feminist and BIPOC geographers have engaged critically with slow violence, extending analysis to new fields of inquiry, deploying it as a tool for identifying violent racializing processes (Cahill et al, 2019a;Hyndman, 2019;Jones, 2019, Tagle, 2019 as well as gendered violence (Christian and Dowler, 2019).…”

Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance

“…Feminist, decolonising and antiracist critiques attend to the blatant disregard of violence in intimate and domestic domains, the way these intersect with other political violences and the whiteness of analysis (Daley 2008; Federici, 2019; Fluri and Piedalue, 2017; Gilmore, 2009; Holmes, 2009). The significant insights of Black and Indigenous geographies in producing historically rooted intersectional accounts of political violence and structural inequalities as a condition of life still too often go unacknowledged (Eaves, 2020; Gilmore, 2017; McKittrick, 2011; McKittrick and Woods, 2007; Smith, 1999; Woods and Gilmore, 2017). More recently, feminist and BIPOC geographers have engaged critically with slow violence, extending analysis to new fields of inquiry, deploying it as a tool for identifying violent racialising processes (Cahill et al, 2019a; Hyndman, 2019; Jones, 2019; Tagle, 2019) as well as gendered violence (Christian and Dowler, 2019).…”

Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography

“…In Geography, there has been an interest in the links between teaching and anti‐racism for several decades (cf. Alderman et al, 2019; Dwyer, 1999; Eaves, 2020; Jackson, 1989; Kobayashi, 1999; Mahtani, 2006; Oswin, 2020). Contemporary concerns about this topic were poignantly articulated in Domosh's (2015) provocative AAG column “Why is our Geography curriculum so white?” In this paper, Domosh points to the pressing need to assist one another in building a new intellectual history, and ways of teaching, because such moves promise to enrich the discipline for everyone.…”