Description

This session brings together scholars whose research focuses on historic injustices or inequities through an engagement with archival and historical documents. Critical geographical work is grounded in history, but how do we, as geographers, engage the record of history? How do archives, historical data sets, and oral histories inform our research and allow us to look beyond the text on paper, especially when our projects attempt to disentangle spatial histories of inequality and injustice? What are methodological challenges of doing critical archival work and what strategies do we develop to move around them? This session, Reading for Injustice Across Historical Records, brings together scholars whose work addresses or seeks to address historical injustices and inequities. We are interested in hearing from scholars who are committed to tracing histories of inequality through archival documents and other forms of historical data.