Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Katherine McKittrick
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"A Black Sense of Place": An ICDL Keynote Conversation with Prof. Katherine McKittrick
This keynote conversation with renowned Black feminist geographer Katherine McKittrick, that took place at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence's Annual Conference 2023, considers knowledge production processes and research practices from specifically Black spatializing vantage points, which are relevant to the transdisciplinary field of African Studies. The term 'field' is itself a spatial term concerning the conceptualisation of African Studies as a plethora of knowledge production sites which encompass epistemic perspectives from geopolitical and geophysical locations on the continent and the diverse African diasporas.
McKittrick's "Dear Science and Other Stories" (2021) combines poetic approaches with an erudite Black epistemic politics concerned with Black histories and how these have contributed to the intersectional spatialization of bodies read as Black. Here the term 'Black' transports more nuanced political, poetic and intellectual aggregates of being - rather than a mere racial category built on colonial logics. Thus this conversation is meant to sound and map distinct Black epistemic values through intersectional readings of power relations in structural, cultural and disciplinary sites of knowledge production. Notably the concept of the intersection and its accompanying socio-political and epistemic identity vectors are in and of themselves spatialising metaphors.
https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2023/2023-10-31-Cluster-conference/index.html
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- speaker
- McKittrick, Katherine
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- Title
- Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Katherine McKittrick
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Conference Spatilities 2023
- Date
- November 30, 2023
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- so uh hello everyone um I'm caught up in a Time Loop here um I welcome you very warmly to this lecture um my name is Professor Stefan I'm an economic geographer I'm also Pi in the cluster and it is my honor to chair this meeting uh the icdl keynote conversation with Prof professor Katherine mckitrick icdl actually stands for intersectionality and critical diversity literacy lecture which is housed in the clusters directorate for gender and diversity which is headed by Dr Christine folk William and over the years we had several uh renowned Scholars gracing this series among them calias such as the late professor muku ofas VES some of you may remember that and I really recommend that you visit the subsection on the Clusters website to learn more about these past lectures uh today we are honored to welcome Katherine who will speak with us in a conversation about a black sense of place and by doing so by placing this conversation within the institutional locus of this a conference we live up to a recent call of Patricia Dy who gave the open keynote on Wednesday and Ember Mor namely to build a stronger bridge between what is often to African studies a label we can critically discuss and the vibrant field of black geographies and I think Katherine is the ideal person for this as a the major thinker uh on black specialities and more generally one of the major thinkers on on uh space and place uh that is with us uh she's the Canada Research chair in Black studies she researches in the area of black studies of course and anti-colonial uh studies and also critical creative methodologies she authored demonic grounds her first book black women and the cartographies of struggle uh she also edited a very important book on Sylvia Wier on being humanist prais uh silia winter the Caribbean scholar uh who cannot be easily pinned down because she's covering a wide range of of topics and also co-edited the book with Clyde Woods the late Clyde Woods on black geographies and the… Read the full text about 6,735 words
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