Subalternity

Sircar, Srilata

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“…Jazeel (2011) shows how academic knowledge is rooted in spatially uneven research cultures in which the “West” is positioned as the site of theory, and the rest of the world as a field site through which theory is revised. In resisting this unevenness, geographers have examined a range of subaltern geographical imaginations (Jazeel and Legg, 2019a, 2019b; Sircar, 2020). Building on this work, I bring a geographic approach to the representational critique that emerged out of the field of subaltern studies, which often frames the subaltern as a “non-subject located in a (non)place” (de Jong and Mascat, 2016: 718).…”

Section: Subalternity Homelessness and The Refusal To Listenmentioning

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Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard

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2021

Environ Plan D

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Building on the writings of homeless and formerly homeless memoirists from the United States and United Kingdom, this paper examines how the voices and ideas of those who experience homelessness are consistently removed from public debate and historical memory. While people without homes are discussed at length in journalistic and academic texts, their own voices are rarely at the center of such conversations. Memoirists argue that this exclusion is not passive or benign. They attest to persistent efforts to make their voices heard, even as newspapers, television stations, and other institutions of knowledge obstruct their efforts. In this way, homeless voices are actively and repeatedly displaced by the commentary of elite experts. Based on these insights, I engage with literature in geography and subaltern studies to advance a new understanding of subalternity as a process of epistemic displacement. Moving beyond deconstructive approaches to representation, I argue that challenging subalternity involves disseminating subaltern scholarship, journalism, and expertise to confront society's failure to listen.

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Section: Subalternity Homelessness and The Refusal To Listenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard

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2021

Environ Plan D

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Subalternity

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Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard

Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard

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