Writing Geographies GT26

Cosgrove + Domosh 1993

Writing as creating + inscribing meanings about places. Crisis of representation = crisis of authority + power. Resists naivete of representation as reflection of reality

Bennett 2010

Authorship is distributed. "Sentences emerged from my memories, intentions, intestinal bacteria, eyeglasses, blood sugar, the keyboard, bird song". Writing is co-produced by human and nonhuman forces.

hooks 1990

Marginality as a Site of Resistance. The colonial demand: "I want to know your story. And then I will tell it back to you… Re-writing you, I write myself anew. I am still author, authority"

Cresswell

Geographer-poet. Writing poetry vs academic prose. Form, page-space, repetition, rhythm slowly entering academic prose. CGs January 2014

Clifford + Marcus 1986

Writing Culture. Crisis of ethnographic representation. Writing as inherently political/poetic

Parr + Stevenson 2014

Sophie's Story - missing journeys. Creative rendition of interview narrative. Trauma stories produce difficult affects but enable new ways of speaking the unspeakable. Hopeful cultural geography

Pratt 2009

Circulating Sadness. Filipina mothers' stories of family separation under Canadian Live-in Caregiver Program. Seeking to move audience from ‘spectator’ to ‘witness’

Haraway 2015

"It matters which stories tell stories, which concepts think concepts". Stories big enough to gather complexities, edges open + greedy for new connections

Lorimer + Parr 2014

‘Excursions’ - telling stories + journeys. Geography willing to experiment with different ways of telling, especially in geohumanities. This is paper moment when experimental writing moved from the margins to a recognized methodological approach.

McKittrick 2021

Dear Science. Stories as Black feminist methodology - songs, poems, conversations, theories. "Liberatory clues + resistances". Interdisciplinary narratives that wade through complexities of Black intellectual life

Bahadur 2013

Coolie Woman. Speculative archive of Indian indentured women. Uses imagination, oral tradition, folk songs, tattoos to "talk back" to the colonial archive. Indo-Caribbean indenture

Hartman 2019

Wayward Lives. "Critical fabulation" - speculative method writing with + against the archive. Black girls in early C20th NY as visionaries of freedom not delinquents

Miller 2014

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. Patois vs Standard English. Cartographer = colonial authority, Rastaman = decolonial epistemology. Zion as un-mappable

Philip 2008

Zong! Unwriting the legal archive (Gregson v Gilbert 1783) of the slave ship Zong massacre. Refusing grammar, syntax, coherence - mirroring dismemberment of enslaved lives

Anderson 2019

General representation lit review citation that aknowledges representations are now imbued with feminist, posthuman, and decolonial insights.