Dear ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS members,
We hope you will be interested in the below call for papers for a symposium (followed by film screening) in London in May.
With thanks and best wishes,
The organising team,
Nadia Mosquera and Archie Davies
Call for Papers:
Symposium: Race, Activism and Space in Latin-American Theory and Practice
One-day, two-part symposium, May 28th, Institute of Latin American Studies, London
The Institute of Latin American Studies at the School of Advanced Studies of the University of London invites you to a one-day symposium in two parts, addressing race, activism and space in theory and practice from Latin America. In the morning we invite papers on Afro-Latin American feminist practice, with a focus on contemporary struggles and the circulation of activist praxis and ideas. In the afternoon we invite papers on conceptual and cultural work from Latin America which explores the articulations between race, space and nature. Participants are welcome to attend one or other part of the day, but we warmly encourage all attendees to attend all sessions. They will be followed in the evening by a film screening and discussion.
Part 1 -- Practice (and Theory): Black Feminisms in Latin America and the Diaspora
This symposium will foreground the political trajectories of Afro-Latin American grassroots movements by addressing the process of knowledge production in research on black activism in the region and the diaspora. It is often forgotten that about one-third of Latin America’s population is Afro-Latin Americans or people of African descent. However, they have long organised politically to fight against systemic issues such as poverty, illiteracy, discrimination in the labour market and places of leisure, forced displacements, racial profiling, police violence and lack of political representation. This symposium will foreground the political trajectories of Afro-Latin American grassroots movements by addressing the process of knowledge production in research on black activism in the region and the diaspora. At a time when research practices are demanding the decolonisation of methods and horizontal engagement with research interlocutors (Smith, 2012) there is a need for further enquiry on hierarchies of race, class, gender, nationality and other categories in the context of research on Afro-Latin American struggles (Mitchell-Walthour and Hordge-Freeman, 2016). These enquiries need to address the process of negotiation of inequality that emerges in collaborative research contexts (Kennemore and Postero, 2020). We are interested in exploring how these intersections in the process of knowledge production can feed into the “dialogue shaping the cultures and politics of the Afro-Atlantic world” (Matory 2006:153).
We invite abstracts from scholars and activists and across academic disciplines that include, but are not limited to the following topics:
- The role of collaborative research in anti-racist activism;
- Overcoming hierarchies of knowledge and power;
- Intersectional feminist research in Latin America;
- Afro-diasporic politics and solidarities;
Please submit a 250 word abstract to [log in to unmask]<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=LsI5g0zGXAyg33Mi9yPqupAEzwO_H1cR0Z_IAmMVSisuSrjrULTXCA..&URL=mailto%3anadia.mosqueramuriel%40sas.ac.uk> by end of Monday 9th March.
Part 2 -- Theory (and Practice): Latin America Geographies of Space, Race and Nature
The second part of the symposium seeks papers on contemporary and historical Latin American theorizations of space, race and nature. Latin America’s multiple and particular pre- and post- colonial histories have elicited myriad conceptualizations of the articulations between space, race and nature. Critical scholarship on Latin American geographies has reached the Anglophone sphere through fields as diverse as indigenous ontologies of space (Gutiérrez, 2014), feminist geography (Zaragocin, 2019), territory (Halvorsen, 2019), posthumanist geographies (Sundberg, 2014), critical geography (Santos, 1978; Haesbaert, 2011) and Afro-Brazilian concepts of trans-Atlanticidade (Smith, 2016). This symposium seeks to bring together such diverse approaches through a sustained engagement on what such ideas, ontologies and epistemologies have to say about the articulations between space, race and nature. We seek papers from across the humanities and social sciences on:
* Latin American geographies of space, race and nature;
* Latin American cultural, artistic, literary and political work which (re-) configures race, space and nature;
* Histories and geographies of Latin American conceptions of the Black Atlantic;
* The historical and contemporary dissemination, circulation and translation of Latin American ideas about space, race and nature;
Please submit a 250 word abstract to [log in to unmask]<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=W6QBmwF6sqAOGY3jbAq_YXePs6yPiyPM-ZQvw26_Y6wuSrjrULTXCA..&URL=mailto%3aarchie.davies%40sas.ac.uk> by end of Monday 9th March 2020.
References:
F Ferretti, B. Viotto Pedrosa. 2018. ‘Alternative geographical traditions from the Global South’, Geography Directions. 12th June
Gutiérrez Aguilar, R. 2014. Rhythms of the Pachakuti. Duke University Press
Haesbaert, Rogerio. 2011. El mito de la Desterritorializacion. Del Fin de Los Territorios
a La Multiterritorialidad. Mexico: Siglo XXI.
Halvorsen, Sam. 2019. ‘Decolonising territory: Dialogues with Latin American knowledges and grassroots strategies.’ Progress in Human Geography 43.5 (2019): 790-814.
Kennemore, A. and Postero, N. (2020) ‘Collaborative ethnographic methods: dismantling the anthropological broom closet’?’, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. pp. 1–24.
Matory, L. 2006. The ‘New World’ Surrounds an Ocean: Theorizing the Live Dialogue between Af- rican and African American Cultures. In Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora. Kevin Yelvington, ed. pp. 151–192. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
Santos, M. 1978. Por Uma Geografia Nova: da crítica da Geografia a uma Geografia crítica. Hucitec, São Paulo.
Mitchell-Walthour, G. L. and Hordge-Freeman, E. (2016) Race and the politics of knowledge production: Diaspora and black transnational scholarship in the United States and Brazil. Edited by G. Mitchell-Walthour and E. Hordge-Freeman. Palgrave Macmillan.
Smith, C. 2016. ‘Towards a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento’. Meridians. 14.2.71-87
Smith, L. T. (2012) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Second. London and New York: Zed Books.
Sundberg, J. 2014. ‘Decolonizing posthumanist geographies’. Cultural geographies. 21.1.33-47
Zaragocin, S. 2019. ‘Gendered Geographies of Elimination: Decolonial Feminist Geographies in Latin American Settler Contexts’. Antipode. 51.1.373-392
Dr Nadia Mosquera
Stipendiary Fellow | Institute of Latin American Studies | School of Advanced Study | University of London | | Senate House | Malet Street | London | WC1E 7HU
+44 (0) 20 78628860
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