The Field and the Work: Hybridity as Mantra and Method

Watkins, Case

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“…A multi-and cross-disciplinary conceptual framework and comprehensive methodological approach evinced in Black Rice and subsequent scholarship tend to both welcome and challenge critiques derived of any single academic discipline. This scholarly inclusivity resonates within the broad contours of human geography as a field embracing radical syntheses of methods, approaches, and theories-an "interdisciplinary discipline" (Zimmerer 2017; see also McKittrick 2006;Turner 1989;Van Sant et al 2020;Watkins 2020). It is perhaps within this context where human geography finds a singular niche within the academy, and also helps explain some of the rebuttals from historians and others who would question the "generosity toward methods" common among many geographers (even as this becomes more common in other disciplines) (DeLyser and Sui 2014:304).…”

Section: Geographical Methods and The Black Atlanticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the constraints and oppression of the slave system, Afro-descendants made significant contributions to New World societies-including foodways, arts, religions, communities, landscapes, and economies. Nevertheless, Eurocentric documentation, modernist discourse, and other colonial legacies coalesce to obscure the achievements of enslaved, subaltern, or otherwise marginalised peoples (Blaut 1993;Carney and Rosomoff 2009;Gilroy 1993;Jazeel and Legg 2019;McKittrick 2006McKittrick , 2021McKittrick and Woods 2007;Mignolo and Walsh 2018;Trouillot 1995;Watkins 2020Watkins , 2021Woods 1998). Recognition of these contributions has been hobbled by the reticence of many scholars to accept forms of evidence other than "script penned on paper" (Hawthorne 2010b:153).…”

Section: Geographical Methods and The Black Atlanticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Europeans described the African oil palm, and the valued medicinal oil it provided, growing in and around the colonial plantations of the Caribbean during the 17 th and 18 th centuries. The most thorough transformation of African oil palm landscapes in the New World, however, occurred in Bahia on the Atlantic shores of Northeastern Brazil (Watkins 2015, 2020, 2021). Investigating this transformation requires an openness to sources and methods far beyond historical manuscripts.…”

Section: Mapping New Geographies Of the Black Atlantic4mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Amplifying the Archive: Methodological Plurality and Geographies of the Black Atlantic

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Carney

2022

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First published in 2001, Judith Carney’s Black Rice drew on a complex methodology to argue that enslaved Africans, despite the brutal oppression of bondage, made fundamental intellectual and cultural contributions to agricultural landscapes and economies in the Americas. This thesis sparked a spirited debate in the Anglophone academy, especially among historians, some of whom took issue with the book’s inclusive geographical methodology. That discussion provides a point of departure to show how plural geographical methods work to amplify the archive, historical and otherwise, and enhance our knowledge with more complex and inclusive narratives. After summarising the debate touched off by Black Rice, we update its thesis with inter‐ and multi‐disciplinary research findings over the past two decades. We then survey theoretical and methodological developments in subsequent geographies of the Black Atlantic, before exploring new pathways and connections made possible when we amplify the archive beyond colonial and other written texts.

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Section: Geographical Methods and The Black Atlanticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographical Methods and The Black Atlanticmentioning

confidence: 99%