Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1986099
L. Makey, K. Fisher, Meg Parsons, Aleesha Bennett, Vicky Miru, Te Kahui-iti Morehu, Jane Sherard
In settler-colonial nations such as Aotearoa, New Zealand, ecosystem degradation and restoration of coastal estuaries and their catchments are typically framed through a scientific lens and often privilege patriarchal beliefs and epistemologies. A consequence of colonization in Aotearoa is that sediment(ation) pollution is deemed undesirable, and science is needed to control and solve such ecosystem challenges. However, there remains a tendency to prioritize science over other ways of knowing. Therefore, ecosystem management strategies and restoration practices fail to attend to the dynamics of social differentiation within Indigenous groups concerning settler-colonial power. Indigenous peoples bring nuanced ways of knowing and being whereby relational ontologies and ethics are imperative starting points. Relational ontologies reshape knowledge production to ensure more ethical and just relationships with nature. We use an intersectional lens to highlight the gendered, ethnic, and natured dimensions of sediment(ation) pollution. We show how pollution manifests differently across intimate scales (body, local), demonstrating the far-reaching effects of settler-colonialism violence. This article presents Indigenist geo-creative narratives from four Māori women regarding their lived experiences and realities of sediment(ation) pollution. Using practices familiar to and chosen by them, narratives are richly nuanced, political and recalled in relational and affective terms. We intend to disrupt and bring forth a relational vision of sediment(ation) pollution as a socially just and equitable way of managing and restoring ecosystems.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1986100
K. Bley, Kela E. Caldwell, M. Kelly, Jenna M. Loyd, R. Roth, Tanya M. Anderson, Anne Bonds, Jenny Plevin, D. Madison, Christofer Spencer, Trevonna Sims, C. Archuleta, Zach Ellner, T. McDowell, Chelsea Nestel, Elsa Noterman, Nick Smith, Stepha Velednitsky, N. Underwood, R. Darlington, Yuqi Gao, Adrian George, Laura Miller, Timothy J. Prestby, Jamp Vongkusolkit
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principles of supporting multiple perspectives, the curation comprises visuals and narratives from four of the groups that participated, using their own voices and emotional tenor to describe their design processes. Working toward abolitionist design, we conclude with reflections on (1) embracing pluralism and enabling multiple design processes, (2) centering authorship and ownership, (3) exposing and contesting dominant narratives, (4) exploring dynamic and relational visual representations, and (5) incorporating tangible materials for inclusive design.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-06DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1986101
Kaya Barry, J. Keane
In this creative mediation we explore measures of the coronavirus pandemic—unfolded through the seemingly simple act of ‘physical distancing’—to show the myriad of mobility, wayfinding, and spatial orientations that shape the socio-material fabric of collective life. Physical distancing has mandated new measures of how people orient their body amongst other bodies in public space. In-situ measurements of spatial and affective registers attempt to alleviate possible contagions while adhering to health advice. The importance of measurement and the practice of measuring has never been as obvious and integral to daily life. However, the notions of measure—how one feels, moves, acts, thinks, and reflects—have been long imbued in the governance of collective goals, practices, and action. We highlight performative, sensory, and aesthetic responses to these new measures, suggesting these individualised performances of measure should be indicative of the sensory shifts required to tackle possible future crises and changes.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-06DOI: 10.1080/2373566x.2021.1990102
M. Nieuwenhuis
“Trust is the most joyous kind of bond with another living being. But isn’t it true that whenever we enjoy being with someone, there is [both] a factor of risk there, and also a factor of trust, which gives our enjoyment an edge of rapture?” (Lingis (2004),x). Trust is akin to a permeable border, solid but skin-thin, that makes possible connections between Other and self, self and world. A hitchhiker exercises trust when surrendering to another but, as a prerequisite to a successful journey, also submits to indeterminacies and ambiguities of chance encounters. Trust is openness, but also an acceptance of risk. Whilst on the road, it is impossible to know who you will travel with next. Trust guides and draws lines and dots on the map. Trust determines the length of waiting times at petrol pumps; it regulates feelings of safety; and shapes geographic contours. Trust is an emotion that welcomes becoming. In contrast, a lack of trust impedes the friendship necessary to move the hitchhiker’s body; provokes feelings of danger; and, inevitably, will hamper the fluency of lines on the map. Trust is the fundamental stuff of hitchhiking. But, what is trust? How does it look like, feel like, how is it evoked, and where is it located? Does it have a color, a gender? Drawing insights from the phenomenological work of Alphonso Lingis and my own personal experiences being-on-the-road, this contribution analyses geographies, feelings and the sensing of trust associated with and experienced in hitchhiking.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-06DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1989321
L. Matthey
In a 1947 paper, John K. Wright proposed the term “geosophy” to capture “the study of geographical knowledge from any or all points of view,” a discipline that would explore all “geographical ideas,” both “true and false.” This geosophy has led to a certain interest in parallel, imaginary or popular geographies. In the field of French-language geography, it will continue late in the day in a questioning of para-geographies produced by amateur or nonacademic geographers, rather close to certain Anglo-Saxon debates relating to popular geographies. His article attempts to reverse this point of view by turning these para-geographies into legitimate theories of space that are not recognized as such, as they are stated in a language other than that of science. It is a more poetic language, which resorts to allusion, implicit and imagery, whereas scientific writing prefers clarity, explicitness and factuality. As a result, these parallel geographies have not been elevated to the rank of a certain scientific dignity by the institution of geography and, more broadly, the sciences interested in the territory. I explore here some of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s productions by focusing on the geographical knowledge of which they are both the product and the vector. To do so, I mobilize literary and film materials from his oeuvre. If Pasolini was not a researcher, as defined by academia, he was at least someone who was searching. His work, which aimed at broadening reflection on the way society functions, with a view toward its spatial organization, might have contributed to geographic knowledge.
在1947年的一篇论文中，约翰·k·赖特(John K. Wright)提出了“地理哲学”一词，以捕捉“从任何或所有角度研究地理知识的学科”，这门学科将探索所有“地理观念”，无论“真与假”。这种地理哲学导致了对平行、想象或流行地理的某种兴趣。在法语地理领域，今天晚些时候将继续对业余或非学术地理学家提出的准地理学提出质疑，这与某些与流行地理学有关的盎格鲁-撒克逊辩论相当接近。他的文章试图通过将这些准地理学转化为不被认可的合法空间理论来扭转这种观点，因为它们是用一种非科学的语言来陈述的。它是一种更诗意的语言，采用典故，含蓄和意象，而科学写作更喜欢清晰，明确和事实。因此，这些平行地理学并没有被地理学机构提升到某种科学尊严的地位，更广泛地说，对这一领域感兴趣的科学。我在这里探索一些皮埃尔·保罗·帕索里尼的作品，重点是地理知识，它们既是产品又是载体。为了做到这一点，我从他的作品中调动了文学和电影材料。如果帕索里尼不是学术界定义的研究人员，他至少是一个在探索的人。他的工作旨在扩大对社会运作方式的思考，并着眼于其空间组织，这可能对地理知识有所贡献。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1977163
Julian Brigstocke, Gunter Gassner
The papers in this forum on Spaces and Politics of Aesthetics share a concern with analyzing relationships between politics and aesthetics in ways that question humanist, anthropocentric logics underpinning dominant aesthetic regimes of power. They do so by foregrounding more-than-human materialities and critical analyses of race and colonial power. In this introduction, we begin by routing debates around spaces and politics of aesthetics through post-humanist, new-materialist, and post-colonial trajectories. We also highlight theoretical reference points that animate many of the contributions to the forum, focusing on the aesthetics of disruption in Glissant, Rancière, and Benjamin. We then move on to guide the reader along two different routes through the collection, focusing first on material aesthetics, and then on aesthetic regimes of race.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1973906
N. Millner
Since the mid-1990s, appeals to “Madre Tierra” [Mother Earth] have united activists and campesino [peasant] networks globally as part of political claims of food sovereignty and agrarian rights. Positioning this paper as a contribution to feminist theory, here I explore what Madre Tierra does in political-aesthetic terms, specifically within situated struggles in Central America. Seen from (white) eco-feminist perspectives, the rise of Madre Tierra could be seen to perform new kinds of exclusions: in this resonant figure diverse indigenous cosmologies seem to collapse; agrarian struggles are rendered “feminine,” and both women and land-workers are placed in the realm of nature—which is to say, far from meaning-making. However, when the everyday practices of agrarian activism are thought through Latinx and Chicanx theories of queer kinship and black womanism, a more radical, and specifically decolonial, vision emerges. Through ethnographic vignettes I illustrate the ways that masculinity/femininity, nature/culture, and the relationships between them are being reworked.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1977162
Amanda Rogers
This article examines how the legacies and experiences of the Khmer Rouge (1975–1979) are expressed by contemporary dancers in Cambodia. It stems from the recognition that such works do not always resort to particular performative formats for their power and effect—specifically those that rely upon testimonial forms that promote the desire for showing, documenting, witnessing and healing. This is not to deny those dynamics in these works, nor the importance of them for artistic expression, but it is to consider how creative praxis can potentially open up additional, and culturally specific, responses to a genocidal era. In particular, the article draws upon ideas of remaining and performing remains to argue that the multiple temporalities of history are leading some artists to express experiences of the regime through forms of performance that articulate hope for the future.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1981770
Claire Blencowe
This paper proposes the term “family debilitation” to point to the ways that institutionalized child abuse operates to perversely generate biopolitical authority, a strategy of negative biopolitics that is integral to the aesthetic regimes of settler colonialism and neoliberal authoritarianism. The paper attends to two scenes of child detention in the US: Scene 1 US/Mexico Border 2017 concerns migrant children caught up in the bordering regimes of Donald Trump’s America; Scene 2 Pennsylvania 1879 concerns indigenous children caught up in the disciplinary regimes of “civilizing” education. As we attend to the connections between these scenes an argument emerges that situates racialized child detention and abuse within the aesthetic technologies biopolitical sovereignty. The “problem” to which these practices serve as a kind of technical answer is not any kind of problem with migrant and indigenous families themselves but rather is a problem of government—specifically the legitimacy deficit that exists where biopolitical states openly participate in dispossession and the destruction of life.
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