Joint Plenary: Black Geographies Specialty Group, Political Geography, and cultural geographies: Jovan Scott Lewis speaks on The Reparative Conjuncture: Injury, Recognition, and Redress
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Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Governors Square 14, Sheraton, Concourse Level
Type: Panel, Hybrid session with both in-person and virtual presenters
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track: Black Geographies Specialty Group Curated Track
Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group, Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Kevin Grove Florida International University
Dydia DeLyser University of California-Fullerton
Priscilla McCutcheon University of Kentucky
Patricia Ehrkamp University of Kentucky
Mark Jackson University of Bristol
Chair(s):
Patricia Ehrkamp University of Kentucky
Mark Jackson University of Bristol
Description:
This is the first of two joint plenary sessions organized in the spirit of collaboration and repair by the Black Geographies Specialty Group and the journals Political Geography and cultural geographies.
The Reparative Conjuncture: Injury, Recognition, and Redress
Abstract: Discrimination and injustice are long-standing and chronic issues that many argue have facilitated the American development and progress. This functional process of societal injury-making has recently been called to attention in public discourse, activism, and even policy. Consequently, our politics have been consumed by demands for appropriate redress for these injuries, and resistance to those calls. I situate this moment as what I call a reparative conjuncture, meaning a moment where politics has come to recognize but struggles to reconcile the multiplicity of historical injuries that make up society. Identifying ways to adequately address the wide variety of inequalities is imperative. It is only through the study of reparations that a contemporary reckoning with injury can be assessed and theorized. To redress the historical and systemic harm, reparative politics and practice require a holistic and realistic assessment of what we hope to achieve and what must be done. In this lecture, I explore the terms of injury and repair that underpin our political present. Further, to understand the political and ethical limits of our political imagination, I argue for a reparations theory that explicitly addresses and accounts for how social, political, and geographic injuries can be more creatively addressed through an increased capacity of both material resource and political will for producing a radical and ultimately meaningful terms of repair.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Non-Presenting Participants
Role | Participant |
Introduction | Kevin Grove |
Introduction | Dydia DeLyser University of California, Fullerton |
Introduction | Camilla Hawthorne University of California, Santa Cruz |
Panelist | Jovan Lewis University of California-Berkeley |
Discussant | Patricia Noxolo University of Birmingham |
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Joint Plenary: Black Geographies Specialty Group, Political Geography, and cultural geographies: Jovan Scott Lewis speaks on The Reparative Conjuncture: Injury, Recognition, and Redress
Description
Type: Panel, Hybrid session with both in-person and virtual presenters
Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Governors Square 14, Sheraton, Concourse Level
Contact the Primary Organizer
Kevin Grove Florida International University
kgrove@fiu.edu