GEG7120 - Geographical Thought and Practice 2023/24

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Please read and comment on this document before the class, specifically, what does deconization mean in the context of teaching and learning geographical theory and practice, and learning geographical methods.

This is a working 'live' document developed by staff and postgraduate students, as a starting point for rethinking how and what geography we teach in the context of making an anti-racism classroom.

Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith shares insights into indigenous knowledge, language revitalization, decolonizing research practices, and how to "make knowledge live.”

Indigenous peoples and the scientific gaze.

Dr. Kim TallBear from University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair for Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment discusses innovate ideas to advance science and technology opportunities and careers for Indigenous communities.

Lakota historian Nick Estes on how two centuries of indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life.” Estes’s new book is titled Our History Is the Future. He is a co-founder of the indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 1–40.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718508000961

This is a timeline that might be used to represent the development of key geographical thinkers and the shape of the discipline over the last 100 years. What do you notice about this timeline? Who does it represent? What geographies are missing from this understanding of geographical history? What is the identity of the geographers represented?

The recorded lecture covers some of the 'history' of space in the discipline and how spatial theories can help us understand how a sense of space differs across the world.

In this short video (approx. 5 mins) Doreen Massey discusses how space takes a stroll through time.

An Antipode Foundation film

Dir Kenton Card (16 mins)

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The European Prize for Urban Public Space’ is a biennial prize organised by seven European cultural institutions designed to showcase projects and current thinking around public space.

A series of 8 films made by Jessica Jacobs in collaboration with Vitor Hugo Costa (Lisbon) and members of different Bedouin communities in the Sinai, Egypt (crafted maps to follow)

The Decolonial Atlas is an online collection of maps that aim to help challenge our relationships with the land, people, and state. It’s based on the premise that the orientation of a map, its projection, the presence of political borders, which features are included or excluded, and the language used to label a map are all subject to the positionality of the map-maker. Because decolonization is a process of unlearning maps we are given and involves the reconfiguration of space, the decolonial atlas volunteers are especially committed to the use of indigenous language revitalization through toponymy – the use of place names.

 Their original content is offered for free through the Decolonial Media License 0.1.

Khalili, Laleh. 2012. “Introduction” in Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press, 1 – 10.

Davis, Angela. 2003. “The Prison Industrial Complex” in Are Prisons Obsolete, New York: Seven Stories Press, 84 – 104.

Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2001. “From Necropolis to Blackpolis: Necropolitical Governance and Black Spatial Praxis in Sao Paulo, Brazil” Antipode, 46:2, 323- 339.

Forensic Architecture is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society, from grassroots activists, to legal teams, to international NGOs and media organisations, to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. Their investigations employ cutting-edge techniques in spatial and architectural analysis, open source investigation, digital modelling, and immersive technologies, as well as documentary research, situated interviews, and academic collaboration. 

This video introduces the archiving project of the Royal Geographical Society. Watch this video in advance. We will discuss the nature of this archive, and the project, and what kinds of perspectives a de/post/anticolonial might add.

As discussed in our last session, please find here two anonymised essays from previous years marked with distinction and the feedback they received. These two pieces show that there is not a single way or a prescribe form to address the essay. What is key is that you show a good understanding of the theory/theories you discuss in order to frame your research issue as a problem of geographical knowledge. 

Please note links to pdf files will only work on campus

Please note links to pdf files will only work on campus

Please note links to pdf files will only work on campus

Wills, J. Engaging in R. Lee et al (eds) Sage Handbook of Progress in Human Geography, 2014, 367-84.

accessible via this link: 

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Harney, L. McCurry, J. Scott, J. and Wills, J. (2016) Developing 'process pragmatism' to underpin engaged research in Human Geography. Progress in Human Geography, 40, 3, 316-333.

Available here:

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Article/section:  Introducing Students to the Generic Terminology of Social Research

By: Grix, J.

From: Politics v. 22 (3)

ISSN(s): 0263-3957/1467-9256.

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History of Geography

chapters 1 and 2

useful paper on new materialism

this is a very useful paper summarising the insights of ANT - by annemarie mol

http://content.talisaspire.com/qmul/bundles/5818a1cc4469ee98578b456d

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