[News] Einladung zur GH-Lecture mit Camilla Hawthorne "Black Mediterranean Geographies" bei der GeoWoche

[Nadine Marquardt]

Liebe Liste,

am 05.10. um 19 Uhr veranstaltet die Geographica Helvetica im Rahmen der
GeoWoche eine Journal Lecture mit Camilla Hawthorne zu „Black Mediterranean
Geographies“. Wir laden Euch herzlich zu der Veranstaltung ein! Das abstract
findet ihr unten. 

Bei Interesse an der Veranstaltung könnt Ihr Euch einfach für die GeoWoche
anmelden, dann bekommt Ihr den Zugang (die Veranstaltung findet über Zoom
statt). Die Anmeldung ist kostenlos. Hier geht es zum
Registrierungsformular, Veranstaltungsprogramm und weiteren Infos rund um
die GeoWoche: www.phil.uni-passau.de/fachbereich-geographie/geowoche2021
<http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/fachbereich-geographie/geowoche2021> 

Beste Grüße, 

Hanna Hilbrandt und Nadine Marquardt 

für die Geographica Helvetica

 

Camilla Hawthorne „Black Mediterranean Geographies“

In the wake of the 2015 Mediterranean refugee crisis, a growing number of
scholars has increasingly turned to the „Black Mediterranean“ as an
analytical framework for understanding the historical and geographical
specificities of Blackness in the Mediterranean region. This work draws upon
and extends Paul Gilroy’s powerful theorizations of the Black Atlantic by
asking how Blackness is constructed, lived, and transformed in a region that
has been alternatively understood as a „cultural crossroads“ at the heart of
European civilization, a source of dangerous racial contamination, and—more
recently—as the deadliest border crossing in the world. But the Black
Mediterranean is not a claim to any incommensurable difference or
exceptionalism. In my talk, I draw on insights from Black, feminist, and
postcolonial geographies to argue that the Mediterranean—which currently
occupies a marginal position in global theorizations of racisms that are
typically oriented on North America and the Atlantic—is actually a
relational space that offers profound insights about the organization of the
modern world. I argue that new solidaristic political formations in the
Black Mediterranean (which are, in many cases, led by Black women) have the
potential to challenge heteropatriarchal, arborescent constructions of
nation-as-racial-family, and should prompt us to rethink the categories of
race, gender, citizenship, and Blackness on a global (rather than purely
regional or methodologically nationalist) scale. [Im Anschluss an die
GeoWoche erscheint der Vortrag auf Deutsch und Italienisch in der
Geographica Helvetica]

 

 

 

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