Racial Banishment: Postcolonial Geographies
Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 250A, Level 2, Huntington Place
Type: Paper
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Theme: Making Spaces of Possibility
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Sponsor Group(s):
No Sponsor Group Associated with this Session
Organizer(s):
Ananya Roy University of California - Los Angeles
Chair(s):
Ananya Roy, University of California - Los Angeles
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Description:
How do we make sense of forms of dispossession that are not easily interpreted by the familiar vocabularies of displacement? How do we understand dispossession in relation to personhood and not just property? We come together in this session to take up some of these questions through the study of various forms of racial banishment, including geographies of urbicide, domicide, containment, peripheralization. With careful recognition of the global and transnational histories of race, we rely on Black geographies and postcolonial critique for an extended understanding of the color-lines that structure the world and world-making projects such as development. To this end, we analyze racial banishment in relation not only to social death but also development logics such as resettlement and rehabilitation. Conceptualized during the unrelenting Israeli genocide of Palestinians, we are especially attentive to colonial-racial violence, from Gaza to India to the Florida suburbs to Los Angeles to Brazil’s Northeast. Thinking from Gaza also instructs us in the imperative to learn from, and accompany, banished subjects who not only survive but also live, insisting upon rebellion, refusal, and return.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Ananya Roy, University of California - Los Angeles |
Racial Banishment: Outdoors in Postcolonial Los Angeles |
Emma Shaw Crane, Stanford University |
The periphery within: Racial banishment in the Florida suburbs |
Adam Bledsoe |
The Specter of Blackness in 20th Century Brazilian Anti-Colonial Critiques |
Malini Ranganathan, American University |
The Unmaking of Muslim Citizenship: Racial Banishment in the Time of India’s Bulldozer Raj |
Nour Joudah, UCLA |
Gaza: Before, During, and After Urbicide |
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Racial Banishment: Postcolonial Geographies
Description
Type: Paper
Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 250A, Level 2, Huntington Place
Contact the Primary Organizer
Ananya Roy University of California - Los Angeles
ananya@luskin.ucla.edu
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