Political and social crises surround our moment, distorting our social-relations with each other, with the non-human world, and the future itself. Despite ongoing and compounding crises, on the ground movements and scholar-activists’ work continue to insist on life, creating pathways towards abundant, caring, and liberatory futures. In this session, we call for papers that contend, expand, deepen, and make visible the ways in which local and global Black, Indigenous, and communities of color choose to make life in the here and now (Tuck, 2009). Following Magie Ramírez and Michelle Dailge’s (2023) provocation for theorizing ‘storying relations’ that advance collective liberation, we invite papers that center relational anti-colonial and de-colonial methods and praxes, including but not limited to fugitive and abolitionist world-making practices across the Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Arab, and Asian diaspora. This session has a particular interest in how scholars and communities are advancing liberatory futures and life through digital geographies. We welcome a range of approaches including but not limited to:
Abundance as Method in Digital Geographies (Fujikane, 2021)
Creative Digital Practices/Methodologies including Black fugitivity and maroon geographies (Gross-Wyrtzen and Moulton, 2023; Summers, 2022; McKittrick, 2021)
Land Back! in Digital Geographies (Curley and Smith, 2020; Rivera, 2023)
Making life through relational liberatory geographies (Elwood, 2023; Maynard and Simpson, 2022; Rivera et al. 2022)
Counter-cartographies and the representation of the archive (Hochberg, 2023; D. Hunt 2016)
Trans and Queer of Color World-Making in Digital Geographies (Russell, 2020)
Social Movement Memory (Herrera, 2023; Roane, 2023)
Visual Sovereignty (Raheja, 2015; Tuck 2009)
Role of Scholar Activists and the Whiteness of Theorization in Geography (Elwood and Lawson, 2023; Elwood and Leszczynski 2018; Rivera, 2023; Pulido 2008)
Anti/decolonial geographic praxes and/or conceptualization, including fugitivity (McKittrick 2006 and 2020; Curley and Smith 2020; Diagle and Ramírez 2019; Heynen 2016; Libioron 2021; Van Sant et al 2020)
Organizers: Maya Henderson & Isaac Rivera
Please submit your abstracts to Maya Henderson at mbh75542@uga.edu by 15 December 2023.
Modality: In-person