Description
Presented paper "Feeling through incomplete space-times" as invited discussant as part of Singapore Journal in Tropical Geography annual lecture at the 2023 RGS-IBG annual meeting.In this paper, Pat Noxolo brings together three parallel strands of her work – Black Geographies, geographies of Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies. Each of these geographies is always already climate-changed. Black Geographies, particularly when routed through the long-term legacies of transatlantic enslavement, is always already informed by the world-changing brutalities of the Plantationocene. Caribbean creative practice has a long history as a multiply-focused arena of critical activism around the more-than-human impacts of climate change in the region. Quantum geographies have been summoned to reveal heavily material understandings of “local entanglements and entangled locals” (Noxolo, 2020): in the face of a globalised climate crisis, quantum geographies’ focus on connectedness with indeterminacy “allow[s] for curiosity and exploration, rather than the safety of certitude” (O’Brien, 2016, p. 7). In plaiting these parallel climate-changed geographic strands together – race, creativity and entanglement - this paper is not just a thought experiment. It aims to take a tiny but determined step “towards a world where we do not have to desperately shout that our lives matter” (Johnson, 2000, n.p.)
| Period | 2023 |
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| Event title | Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2023 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | LondonShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |