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Chairs(s):

Joseph Palis, University of the Philippines-Diliman

; Jessica Jacobs, Queen Mary University of London

Description:

What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow parameters of change are possible and allowable. (Audre Lorde, 1984)

Growing interest in more creative research methods in the academy during the Covid pandemic has coincided with the increasing reliance on online technologies to deliver teaching and carry out research: at the same time as travel restrictions mean that geographers in the global north have become increasingly reliant on collaborations with local populations who are already based in the place of study.

Film is a dominant language in digital media – so it’s not surprising that mastering the the visual would appeal, helping to ease the flow and expand the reach of knowledge production. But does film as a method also have potential for the marginalised to challenge centuries of exclusion?
Can film-making, at least the kind which is co-produced by and/or carried out by local communities and indigenous actors challenge the ‘epistemic injustice’ of our existing hierarchies of knowledge that dominate the academy (Williams 2020)? If so how? What would need to happen to ensure that film-making in research avoids becoming one of the ‘master’s tools’ that Lorde warned us about?

This session calls for papers (other formats welcome) that explores how geographers produce knowledge, and what kind of control is being exerted through this process. What are the potential opportunities and challenges for film and filmmaking during a pandemic, as a creative research method that is online, networked, platformed and that offers new forms of representation? How will these changes influence the way we produce and disseminate geographical knowledge in a broader sense? Reflections on how film/making has shifted the work or focus of geographers in other ways also welcomed.

Please send a 300-word abstract by October 17, 2021 following AAG guidelines Jessica Jacobs j.jacobs@qmul.ac.uk and Joseph Palis jepalis@up.edu.ph

General Registration details below:
1. Register online with the AAG to obtain a PIN.
2. Email Presenter Identification Number (PIN) and abstract to Joseph Palis jepalis@up.edu.ph and Jessica Jacobs j.jacobs@qmul.ac.uk

Non-Presenting Participants Agenda