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SUMMARY:Black in Geography - Mobilities Across Boundaries  - Dr. Rudo Mudi
 wa (UC Irvine)\, Dr. James Esson (Loughborough University)\, and Dr. Victo
 ria Okoye (Sheffield Hallam University)
DTSTART:20220121T170000Z
DTEND:20220121T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The first Black in Geography student-led seminar of Lent term 
 takes place on Friday 21 January at 5pm GMT on Zoom.\n\nWe have invited th
 ree scholars of international significance to discuss their diverse yet in
 tersecting research in relation to this field. In opposition to narrow\, c
 olonial narratives and framings of Black mobility\, this panel highlights 
 the centrality – indeed the necessity – of Black methodologies and the
 orisations for an adequate conceptualisation of mobility within geography.
  The aim is to forge a path towards a truly global account of mobilities.\
 n\nThe panel will open with reflections from each of our three speakers on
  their current research. This will be followed by a Q&A.\n\nThe Zoom link 
 to the panel will be circulated a few days before the event. Please regist
 er your interest to receive the link: tinyurl.com/BlackInGeo \n\nSpeaker b
 iographies:\n\nDr. Rudo Mudiwa’s scholarship focuses on the promise that
  decolonization\, as a movement and political process\, held for African s
 ubjects. She is Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the
  University of California\, Irvine. At present\, she is at work on a manus
 cript titled A Nation of Prostitutes: Gender\, Urban Space\, and the Inven
 tion of Zimbabwe. This book will examine how the prostitute – a symbol o
 f the mobile and transgressive black woman – mediated anxieties regardin
 g the challenge of remaking urban space\, policing\, and gender relations 
 in the wake of colonial rule. This research was supported by the Social Sc
 ience Research Council and the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pri
 nceton. In addition to her academic work\, Mudiwa has published essays in 
 Transition\, Chimurenga\, New Frame\, Ebony\, and Africa is a Country.\n\n
 Dr. James Esson is a human geographer at the Department of Geography and E
 nvironment\, Loughborough University. James’ research is currently focus
 ed on the following three areas: i) interrogating the conceptualisation of
  black African bodies in dominant understandings of human trafficking. ii)
  examining how migration statistics are produced\, made credible\, and use
 d by the State to monitor migrant populations. iii) experiences of ageing 
 in urban Ghana.\n\nDr. Victoria Okoye is a Black feminist geographer who d
 raws on collaborative and arts-based approaches to think through questions
  of Black spatial experience and place. Her PhD was a collaborative projec
 t with Spread-Out Initiative\, a youth-focused NGO in the Nima neighborhoo
 d of Accra\, Ghana and involved participatory photography\, mapping\, stor
 ytelling\, and site-specific intervention as means of documenting and reim
 agining with children their inhabitation of community space. Victoria is i
 nterested in (un)learning coloniality/modernity through global Black geogr
 aphies\, Black feminisms\, and Black young peoples' narratives in/of space
 . Victoria has a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning (University of Sheffiel
 d)\, and she is Lecturer in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University
 .\n
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