The Geography Speakers Series presents LaToya Eaves, Assistant Professor University of Tennessee and Treasurer of the AAG,
“…but not under conditions of our own choosing”: Black livingness as method in geography
As a body of work, Black geographies centralizes Black experiences around the world, elucidating how populations in and dispersed from the African continent engage space and make place. Central to the framework is Black livingness – the ontological scaffolding of Black lived experiences that, in turn, shape methods of Black placemaking. This paper discusses the lineage of Black geographies, with an emphasis on Black geographic thought and praxis as a way to encounter and shift geography’s epistemological normativities, asking: (1) What role do the unknowable geographies of Black communities have in/on renovating dominant spatial processes; (2) Can/should Black theoretical and spatial intimacies—focusing on resistance, histories, and, the everyday across space and time—augment geographic thought?
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