Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies

Abstract

This second report on Geographies of Race and Ethnicity considers new developments in Black Feminist Geographies. It considers the spatio-temporal extensiveness of Black Feminist Geographies. It joins calls for more powerfully critical versions of intersectionality in Geography, using in/security as a means of conceptualising forms of negotiative agency. The article then considers the epistemic challenges posed by decolonial Black Feminisms, particularly from African writers. Finally, the article notes that Black Feminist Geographies are a locus for witnessing and honouring the complex humanity of the disproportionately large number of Black people who have died untimely deaths. To survive is a promise.

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

“…To that end, there is strong potential in post-and decolonial as well as feminist and intersectional perspectives on urbanization and urban spaces that deal with subjectivities, subject positions, historical difference, and broader questions of space and power (e.g., Duplan et al, 2021;Kinkaid, 2021). We see productive connections between our approach and longstanding research on geographies of difference (e.g., Bondi, 1990;McDowell, 1993;McKittrick and Peake, 2005), post-and decolonial (e.g., Merrill, 2014), intersectional Black feminist (e.g., Noxolo, 2023) and queer/trans-feminist (e.g., Brice, 2023;Gieseking, 2016;Kinkaid et al, 2022), as well as anti-racist approaches (e.g., Lombard et al, 2021;Zavala Guillen, 2022). Territorial subjectivities, in the sense of the term presented here, invite a critical reflection on the essentializing politics of space and subjects.…”