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?”
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.
We run this reading group in the hope that together we can reach different answers to the question “who are we?” We proceed with the assumption that nothing is our own, and therefore, with the possibility that we may embrace everything.
Byler finds that what’s going on in Xinjiang is not only violation of rights, nor simply authoritarianism, racism or Islamophobia, but rather the production and conquering of a new, colonial frontier of ethno-racialized global capitalism.
Arc of the Journeyman, by Nichola Khan, explores motile logics and Afghan migrant subjectivities. This book will appeal to those with an interest in life, language, and representation; theory as practice; style as substance; suffering as compound (not cumulative); and histories as recursive.