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Thursday 16th November 2017 | 4.30-6.30 pm | Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 150 | Goldsmiths, University of London | SE14 6NW
"Singularity: A Manifesto for Incomparable Geographies"
Dr Tariq Jazeel (UCL)
Discussant: Dr Shela Sheikh (Media and Communications)
Organiser: Dr Martin Savransky (Sociology)
This paper is a methodological response to the challenge of decolonizing geographical knowledge. It mobilizes decolonial critiques of postcolonial and critical theory to suggest how knowledge production and conceptual work within the discipline often, and unwittingly, disfigure the precise contours of the places and socio-spatial formations that geographers work on and with, drawing them into implicit and reductive forms of comparison. Drawing on field and archival experiences in South Asia, the paper moves instead toward more uncertain engagements with, and dispositions to, the production of geographical knowledge; ones attuned to the poetics of planetary difference. The paper suggests a range of intellectual and methodological resources and tactics aimed toward producing geographical scholarship attuned to the tableaux of heterogenous and incomparable singularities at large across the world. These include working with untranslatability and aesthetics, dwelling in the domain of subalternity and the politics of representation, harnessing the potentiality of friction and fragments, and embracing fugitivity and failure.
Tariq Jazeel is Reader in Human Geography at University College London. He works at the intersections of human geography, South Asian studies and postcolonial and critical theory. He is the author of Sacred Modernity: Nature, Environment, and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood (2013) and co-editor of Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka (2009).
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