Revisiting Crafting Black Ecologies
The session recording will be archived on the site until June 25th, 2023
This session was streamed but not recorded
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Virtual 3
Type: Virtual Panel,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track: Black Geographies Specialty Group Curated Track
Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group, Latinx Geographies Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Naya Jones University of California Santa Cruz
Chair(s):
Naya Jones University of California Santa Cruz
Jennifer Blanks Texas A & M University
Description:
At AAG 2022, our panel gathered to explore the crossroads of critical studies of craft and material culture and Black ecologies. For this conversational panel, we gather again to reflect on our collaborative work on "crafting Black ecologies" and to share what has emerged through our on-going virtual meetings, collective writing, and community-building so far. Grounded in a wide range of disciplines, panelists will also provide insights into our personal creative and scholarly practices where craft and Black ecologies meet.
With an emphasis on process and collaborative scholarship, this panel on "Revisiting Crafting Black Ecologies" explores the possibilities of Black geographic theory and practice. Our inquiry is grounded in interventions from Black ecologies that simultaneously underscore the vulnerability of Black geographies to climate and environmental injustice while centering "insurgent" Black ecological knowledge (Roane and Hosbey 2019; Moulton and Salo 2022). By engaging with craft in different forms - from reclaiming cemeteries to ritual arts to digital expression - this panel considers how these knowledges are situated, expressed, and involve (or require) more-than-human relations throughout the Black diaspora.
We return to our previous questions and raises fresh ones: How has crafting been a site of Black ecological knowledge(s)? What possibilities emerge - in theory, method, and practice - from approaching black ecologies through material culture? What are the implications of the plantationocene for the land, plants, and other life that render Black craft possible (Davis et al. 2018)? How do these Black ecologies resonate and overlap with Latinx, Indigenous, and fellow insurgent ecologies of the Global South?
Along with grounding in Black ecologies, our collaborative inquiry comes from our practices as panelists who actively bridge theory and practice, art and analysis, activism and scholarship.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
AAG Tech Support |
Revisiting Crafting Black Ecologies |
Non-Presenting Participants
Role | Participant |
Other | Shah Noor Hussein |
Panelist | Naya Jones |
Panelist | Jennifer Blanks Texas A & M University |
Panelist | Morgan Vickers |
Panelist | shah noor hussein University of California Santa Cruz |
Panelist | Danicia Malone Temple University |
Panelist | Tianna Bruno University of Texas at Austin |
Panelist | Ayana Omilade Flewellen |
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Revisiting Crafting Black Ecologies
Description
Type: Virtual Panel,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Virtual 3
Contact the Primary Organizer
Naya Jones University of California Santa Cruz
njones6@ucsc.edu