A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Professor Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley) delivered the Society and Space plenary lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting on March 31, 2016. Below is a video of her talk, titled “Secularism, Sovereignty, and Religious Difference: A Global Genealogy?”
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Professor Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley) delivered the Society and Space plenary lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting on March 31, 2016. Below is a video of her talk, titled “Secularism, Sovereignty, and Religious Difference: A Global Genealogy?”
Laleh Khalili's latest manuscript, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (2024), gives breath to the complex and hidden life of seafaring. Khalili provides a vivid account of the lives of seafarers who power the vast global trade network, typically hidden from land-based consumers. The researcher embarked on two voyages, twenty months apart, aboard different CMA CGM ships travelling from Malta to Jabal Ali, Dubai. Using a mix of ethnographic notes, photographs, interviews, and archival materials, Khalili reveals the living conditions aboard these cargo ships.
What is it about this conjuncture that makes the unprecedented use of force with which UC Berkeley reclaimed People’s Park acceptable and even desirable for so many? We examine the pressures and opportunities, strategies for winning consent, and counter-hegemonic tactics at different scales.
E Cram's Violent Inheritance mobilizes a network of energy grammars and analytics to argue for another story of sexual modernity, one that accounts for the body as ecological and administered by, and producing in turn, racial and sexualized value in the North American West.
Although focused on buildings that have since been destroyed, the tone of this genealogy is not mournful. It instead is generative, revealing the creative outputs that have emerged and continue to shape this district. It demonstrates how architecture transforms and is transformed by a range of living and nonliving agents.