Development Arrested: Race, Power, and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta

Summers, Gene F.; Woods, Clyde

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“…Scholarship on anticolonialism and decolonization emerge from an insistence of curating relational methodologies in the affirmation of Indigenous peoples' self-determination (Pulido, 2002;Hunt and Stevenson, 2017;Curley and Smith, 2020;Roane, 2023). Methodology and the ways geographers "do" geography has been a core site in which decolonial and anticolonial scholarship push against settler colonial framings of spatial knowledge (Smiles, 2018;McKittrick, 2021;Woods, 1998). For instance, Katherine McKittrick (2021) traces how empire shapes disciplinary thought, demanding the necessity for "disobedient relationality that always questions, and thus is not beholden to academic logics" (McKittrick, 2021:45).…”

Section: Undoing Settler Imaginariesmentioning

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“…From geographic methods such as the Blues Epistemology to Indigenous Data Sovereignty shaped and accountable to place and community, the making of "decolonial geographies" dismantles settler colonial and racial capitalist spatial orders (Duarte, 2017;Daigle and Ramírez, 2019;Woods, 1998). In doing so, decolonial and anticolonial scholars demonstrate the life affirming possibilities of geographic methods emergent from Black and Indigenous spatial stances insistent on "disobedient relationality" oriented towards the defense and affirmation of life (King, 2019;McKittrick, 2014;Daigle, 2016;Woods, 1998). "Disobedient relationality" emerges from solidarities, relations, and spaces across human and non-human worlds where settler colonial regimes animate and entrench anti-relationality through the visual-digital terrain (McKittrick, 2021;Gilmore, 2017).…”

Section: Undoing Settler Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Katherine McKittrick (2021) traces how empire shapes disciplinary thought, demanding the necessity for "disobedient relationality that always questions, and thus is not beholden to academic logics" (McKittrick, 2021:45). From geographic methods such as the Blues Epistemology to Indigenous Data Sovereignty shaped and accountable to place and community, the making of "decolonial geographies" dismantles settler colonial and racial capitalist spatial orders (Duarte, 2017;Daigle and Ramírez, 2019;Woods, 1998). In doing so, decolonial and anticolonial scholars demonstrate the life affirming possibilities of geographic methods emergent from Black and Indigenous spatial stances insistent on "disobedient relationality" oriented towards the defense and affirmation of life (King, 2019;McKittrick, 2014;Daigle, 2016;Woods, 1998).…”

Section: Undoing Settler Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

Rivera

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geography as a discipline is entangled in settler colonial regimes that continue to shape geographic practice and the boundaries of geographical knowledge. Digital technologies play an instrumental role in shaping the view of geography and sociospatial relations. This paper traces the construction of the settler imaginary in geographic thought through scholarship in digital geographies and anticolonialism. By bridging anticolonial scholarship in digital geographies, this paper contributes to debates on anticolonial and decolonial refusal politics and its role in realizing reciprocal land-life relations. The (re)imagining of digital knowledge politics begins with accountable digital geographic practices on the terms of Indigenous peoples’.

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2023

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“…The most representative continuation of his radical contributions was Woods (1998), who saw the restructuring agenda unfold in Black neighborhoods under the guise of "redevelopment" and fought back against territorial dispossession with an intellectual, emotional, and experimental method developed in Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta. Woods shared Soja's propensity for deconstruction and expressive art to explore the very heart of his topic.…”

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Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective

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Brasdefer

2023

Human Geography

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Edward W. Soja saw early in his career that “it is now space more than time, geography more than history, that hides consequences from us.” His life-long scholarly project centered around this contention, inspiring his advocacy of a socio-spatial dialectic, his contribution to the so-called “spatial turn,” and his fervent belief that all matters of justice are matters of geography, necessitating the “reassertion of space in critical social theory.” In his decidedly interdisciplinary and agenda-setting work, he became associated with several schools of thought, from Marxism and cultural studies, to postmodernism and critical theory. But his defining feature remained his radical approach to the study of cities and regions vis-à-vis an investigation of Los Angeles informed by the work of Henri Lefebvre. In doing his decades of investigation of urbanization, restructuring, and political struggle writ large, he developed a lexicon that helped identify, problematize, and speak to an array of otherwise aspatial ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological scholarly positions, always placing space at the center. This paper discusses Soja's personal and intellectual advocacy of a radical spatial perspective, arguing that his neat categorization as a “postmodern geographer” is one that is both real and imagined—as limiting as it is liberating.

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Marshall

2000

Agriculture and Human Values

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Development Arrested: Race, Power, and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta

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