AAG 2023 CFP: Reparative Geographies
Session Organizers: Elsa Noterman (Queen Mary University of London) and Sara Safransky (Vanderbilt University)
How should wealth and land be distributed? How should local governments and institutions account for historical and ongoing racialized dispossession? Since widespread Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 in response to police brutality, calls for reparations have grown exponentially as have ensuing debates over such questions. While historically reparations in the United States have often focused on national legacies of enslavement and colonization, more recent calls are rooted in redressing related racialized harms on a local and regional level, including the continued theft of Black and Indigenous land, housing segregation, redlining, environmental injustices, climate change, and police violence. Thus, in addition to addressing the federal government, activists are demanding that local-level governmental units, universities, and civil society organizations also act.
This session aims to bring together a broad range of thinking about how institutional, municipal, and regional policies, initiatives, and practices are seeking to recognize and address the ongoing legacies of chattel slavery and colonial violence. We encourage contributions from scholars working within and beyond the U.S. context with the aim of thinking about the similarities and differences in how repair and redress are conceptualized and enacted across regions and connections among them.
Specifically, we invite contributions that relate to–but are not limited to–the following themes:
Localized examples of reparations
Localized examples of land return
Historical precedents and models
Examinations of the theories of repair and redress, geographical discourses, and politics of recognition and accounting that subtend local policies/initiatives
Analyses of the relationship between land and housing justice movements and local level reparative policies/initiatives
The role of universities, education, research, and scholarship in reparative policies/initiatives
This will be a hybrid session at AAG 2023 in Denver.
Please send your 250-word abstract or expression of interest by Wednesday, November 2nd to Sara Safransky ([log in to unmask]) and Elsa Noterman ([log in to unmask]). Per AAG guidelines, abstracts can be edited up until February 9, so please feel free to send us a draft. If you would prefer to participate in a roundtable discussion rather than a paper session, you can indicate that in your response. If we have enough interest, we will organize a paper session and a roundtable. We will respond by Friday, November 4.
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