Institutional Subjects GT26

Maldonado-Torres 2007

On the Coloniality of Being. Coloniality = long-standing patterns of power that outlast colonial administrations - culture, labour, knowledge production. Decoloniality = dismantling these

Quijano 2007

Coined "coloniality" - persistence of Eurocentrism in Latin America + global South. Decolonial epistemological project - clearing space for "another rationality"

Said 1978

Orientalism. Postcolonial critique of Western institutions' spatial metaphors - though limited to 19th C and Asia/Africa, doesn't reach Latin America

Driver 2001

Geography Militant. Exploration central to geography's professionalisation. RGS as colonial institution. "Stanley quoted: the savage only respects force"

Bhandar 2018

Links to Driver (2001) Geography + push for modern property rights + geographical mapping = mass settler colonialism and indigenous genocide/ethnic cleansing

Driver 1992

Geography's empire - histories of geographical knowledge as imperial knowledge. Race made science possible

Kearns 2009

Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder. Mackinder = imperial subject who built geography to "educate a generation of imperial citizens". Empire as "nostalgic space" for masculinity

Griffiths + Baker 2020

RGS-Kensington Gore building still embodies colonial violence - Curzon, Stanley, Speke statues. Production of knowledge linked to "blood diamonds, mass starvation in India, genocide in Congo"

Bell + McEwan 1996

Admission of women to RGS (1892-1913). Driven by professionalization, need for teachers, imperial education - not by feminist principle

Sundberg 2003

Quoting Barnes + Gregory - masculinist geographer "elevated above the rest", surveying with detachment denied to those "closer to the ground"

Robinson 2003

Postcolonialism = "project to disabuse social theory, and perhaps spatial theory, of its claims to universalism"

Radcliffe 2005

Postcolonial geographies critique western institutions' spatial metaphors e.g. ‘core’ ‘periphery’. Speak to violence + marginalization of those excluded from metropolitan status

Hart 2002

Stretches postcolonial geography - questions north/south binaries, focuses on flows and movements, relationality, differentiation between colonialisms

Shaw et al 2006

Doing indigenous geographies. Resist "rationalism" when it conflicts with indigenous understandings. Native sense of place = interrelated, sacred, dynamic vs Western atomistic

McKittrick 2006

Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Question the spatial + temporal terms of geography. Black geographies as a field

Sundberg 2014

Decolonising posthumanist geographies. Walking to learn as a recognised field method. Critique of Eurocentred ontology even within posthumanism

Daley 2020

"Lives lived differently" - geography and the study of black women. Pushes black feminist geography forward

Semple 1911

Influences of Geographic Environment. Environmental determinism. First female president of AAG. Argued slavery was geographically determined - "enslaved by the soil"