Introduction to the Handbook on the Geographies of Power

Coleman, Mat; Agnew, John

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“…Black Feminist authors such as Sylvia Wynter (1971; 2003), Katherine McKittrick (2013), and Vanessa Agard-Jones (2012), and other explorations in STS and other non-STS feminist praxis (Povinelli 2017; Puig de la Bellacasa 2017; 2021; Yusoff 2018; Lyons 2020; Stengers 2021) around human-soil relations in varied contexts, can help us account for this ubiquitous and metamorphic condition of agency and conceptual creations. Puig de la Bellacasa, for instance, rescues the elemental as a concept from early chemistry and geochemistry in studies of soil composition and mobilizes it to identify the parts and whole that make up the “soil community”—an assemblage that in “microbiopolitics” is called “microbiomes,” the multispecies biotic-abiotic collectives in the biogeochemical relations that constitute the soil as matter.…”

Section: The Earth: Neither Resource Nor Predationmentioning

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“…Pemba thus emerged as a matter that created unwelcome relationships insofar as, in the modern sciences, “eating earth” is assigned a pathological term: geophagy. In this way, the pemba consumed by the “earth-eaters” appears as the outcome of an undesirable soil-human relationship in which the earth is seen as “dead matter” (Wynter 2003: 267; Yusoff 2018: 211). Geophagy would thus describe a practice of women in racialized bodies and “Bushinengue culture” in the legally precarious territories composed by the colonial enclaves of the Plantationocene (Jolivet and Vernon 2007; Vernon 2018; Grotti 2017; Léglise, Léobal, and Migge 2020).…”

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The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions

da Cunha

2024

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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How can we remain attentive to the scale of the environmental damage caused in traditional Maroon territories by the effects of the Plantationocene and the material vestiges of colonial and racial violence left by capitalism? Dwelling on conversations held with Maroon Cottica Ndyuka women living in Moengo, a small town established on the Cottica River in Eastern Suriname to support a bauxite industrial plant in the early twentieth century, this text seeks to illuminate what Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2021) calls “elemental affinities,” relationships in which humans and more-than-humans interact in composing body and earth through refractive and diffractive effects. The paper observes how the women mixed and modeled clay, turning it into sculpted balls known as pemba or pemba doti, frequently used as a therapeutical and spiritual substance, and as food. In so doing, the text deals with processes such as creating, composing, undoing, decomposing, and perishing once the earth—as soil—takes part in and renders possible the existence of diverse creatures. This is a contribution toward an ethnography of (de)compositions of the earth that sets out from the affinities between earth and bodies, attentive to certain metamorphic possibilities, the multiplicities of relations in which soils act.

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The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions

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2024

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“…Given this, power necessarily plays a central role in the process of collective agency formation, with new and evolving networks of relationships between individual agents and activities emerging together. These may take the form, for example, of new economic development fora and stakeholder networks ranging from regional development advisory groups, cluster groups, or investment groups, with each agent having their own vested interests and power bases (Coleman and Agnew, 2018).…”

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Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation

Huggins

Thompson

2022

Regional Studies

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New path creation processes are a vital component of regional economic development. This paper establishes a behavioural framework to examine and understand such processes. It is argued that human agency and the network dynamics through which these agents interact are at the heart of new path creation processes. In particular, effective new path creation requires the formation of collective forms of agency based on strong strategic networks underpinned by a shared commitment. Regions that are equipped with such agency and networks are more likely to be capable of embracing and managing the economic complexity and adaptability necessary to generate the innovation associated with new development paths.

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“…Despite this longstanding present absence, which endures in contemporary political geography, recent works by political geographers are engaging with the field of settler colonialism much more directly (Gentry et al, , Hawari, Plonski, & Weizman, , Hughes, , forthcoming; Machold, ; Naylor, Daigle, Zaragocin, Ramírez, & Gilmartin, ; De Leeuw & Hunt, ), focusing particularly on biopolitics, planning, urban geopolitics, and gendered and racialized foundations of settler colonialism (Farrales, ; Naylor et al, ). Indeed, Coleman and Agnew () argue that the settler colonial framework is of rising importance to the field of political geography. This growing engagement with settler colonial theory is highly significant in terms of how geographers study settler colonial formations and their linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire.…”

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of political analysis that geographers can offer. It also limits the nature, depth, and scope of radical critique of violent domination by skirting certain questions about the core drivers of dispossession and responsibility for them. This article examines political geographical engagement (or lack thereof) across each of four themes: population management/governance, territory/sovereignty, consciousness, and narrative, paying particular attention to works which challenge the present absence of settler colonial theory in political geography. We argue that analyzing settler colonial formations as such is essential to conceptualizing their workings and linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire. Yet this focus also has broader political stakes related to geography's complicity with racialized state power, violence, and empire, as well as and efforts to decolonize the discipline.

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Introduction to the Handbook on the Geographies of Power

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions

The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions

Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: the behavioural principles of new path creation

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

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