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SUMMARY:BLACK IN GEOGRAPHY X RACE TALKS: Green Violence\, Abolition Geogra
 phies and Black Repair - Professor Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape 
 Town)\, Assistant Professor Camilla Hawthorne (University of California\, 
 Santa Cruz) and Assistant Professor Kevon Rhiney (Rutgers University)
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DESCRIPTION:Join our three fantastic panelists as they explore the interse
 ctions between environmental geographies and the future of Blackness\, fro
 m how green violence enforces anti-Black racial hierarchies through to the
  need for Black repair and the abolitionist potential of the Black Mediter
 ranean.\n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-in-geograph
 y-x-race-talks-tickets-292304609957 \n\nProfessor Maano Ramutsindela: Gree
 n violence and the place of blacks in the world\nIn this presentation Prof
 essor Ramutsindela draws on recent and ongoing debates on green violence a
 nd from experiences in Africa to make two provocations. The first is that 
 the violence of conservation has a demographic character\, which reinforce
 s racial hierarchies at a global scale. These hierarchies are rendered inv
 isible by conservation discourses and narratives. The second provocation i
 s that conservation spaces are not only violent but also provide a platfor
 m on which black people and indigenous groups are routinely dehumanized. P
 rofessor Ramutsindela uses these provocations to think about environmental
  geographies of the Majoritarian world.\n\nBio: Professor Ramutsindela is 
 a human geographer whose interests lie in political geography and politica
 l ecology\; particularly borders\, regions\, land reform\, and transfronti
 er conservation. He uses these four themes to engage with broader debates 
 on the conceptions and institutionalisation of borders and their (im)mater
 iality\, territorial politics\, regionalisms\, and society-nature relation
 s. His latest book (with Frank Matose and Tafadzwa Mushonga) is The Violen
 ce of Conservation in Africa (Edward Elgar\, 2022).\n\nProfessor Camilla H
 awthorne: Abolition Geographies from the Black Atlantic to the Black Medit
 erranean\nIn this presentation\, Professor Hawthorne considers how the Bla
 ck Mediterranean complicates universalizing narratives that read Blackness
  solely through the geographies of racial slavery and the plantation. She 
 will reflect on the fraught but necessary diasporic work of translating Bl
 ackness across distinct yet interconnected global geographies and historie
 s of racial formation. Professor Hawthorne will then conclude with some le
 ssons the Black Mediterranean offers for abolitionist\, antiracist\, antic
 olonial\, and no-border struggles unfolding across the world in this polit
 ical moment.\n\nBio: Camilla Hawthorne is Assistant Professor of Sociology
  and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Sa
 nta Cruz. Her work focuses on Black geographies and the racial politics of
  migration and citizenship. She is a co-editor of The Black Mediterranean:
  Bodies\, Borders\, and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and the auth
 or of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediter
 ranean (Cornell University Press 2022).\n\nProfessor Kevon Rhiney: Black R
 epair\nProfessor Rhiney's talk draws on Jovan Scott Lewis’ rich ethnogra
 phic study of lottery scammers in Jamaica and the ethical logic they use t
 o justify scamming as a form of reparations\, to think about the limits of
  Black reparative claims. Specifically\, he draws on various theorizings o
 f Black insurgent life to explore the inherent challenges in engendering a
  radical politics of change premised around principles of repair\, alterit
 y\, and fugitivity. Ultimately\, Professor Rhiney argues that theorizing B
 lackness and by extension\, Black repair\, necessitates exploring question
 s of the unimaginable\, the liminal\, and the otherwise.\n\nBio: Kevon Rhi
 ney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, Rutgers Uni
 versity. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers\, he held a postdoctoral 
 fellowship at the University of Oxford and taught for several years at the
  University of the West Indies (Jamaica). His research is situated at the 
 nexus of critical development studies\, human-environment geography\, and 
 political ecology. Kevon is a British Commonwealth Fellow\, development se
 ction editor for Geography Compass and recently served as a contributing a
 uthor for the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C.\n\nRace Talks
  is a bi-weekly seminar series that investigates processes and histories o
 f race and gender making. Race Talks is attuned to the ways in which unive
 rsities as institutions are animated by histories of colonialism\, which i
 n turn shape the organisation of knowledge production as well as citationa
 l practices. In view of this fact\, we are particularly committed to invit
 ing scholars of colour in a feminist effort to honour the radical intellec
 tual work that emerges from the margins.\nOrganised by Dr Kerry Mackereth\
 , Christina Gaw Research Associate in Gender and Technology\, University o
 f Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and Ola Osman\, PhD Candidate\, Univ
 ersity of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. Please direct any queries t
 o Kerry at: kam83@cam.ac.uk.\n\nIf you would like to hear more about Race 
 Talks events\, please email Vincenzo Paci\, Centre Administrative Assistan
 t\, vmp34@cam.ac.uk and ask to be placed on the mailing list.\n\nThe Black
  in Geography seminar is a series organised by students in the Geography d
 epartment at the University of Cambridge. The series invites Black geograp
 hers (lecturers and students) to speak on Blackness\, foregrounding Black 
 voices and experiences in a discipline rooted in coloniality and normative
  whiteness. The seminars are informal and are not recorded\, to create a s
 afe space for open discussion.\nOrganisers: Frédérique Fardin (flf25@cam
 .ac.uk)\, Matipa Mukondiwa (mtm62@cam.ac.uk) and Ed Kiely (emk31@cam.ac.uk
 ).
LOCATION:Zoom
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