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Accepted Paper:
Building Archives, Making Freedom, Practicing Refusal: Undoing Gender-Property Logics through sites of Black Reclamation
Lena Phillips
(African Centre for Cities)
Paper short abstract:
Land and property exist as critical issues across the North-South divide; especially for Black/African/diasporic women. This paper engages Black, property, feminist and abolition studies alongside creative texts; situating the South and Black women at the centre of their own knowledge production.
Paper long abstract:
Land and property exist as critical issues locally and globally; transcending the North-South divide and forcing urgent considerations around urban justice. This is especially true in post/settler-colonial and/or slave-owning societies whose contemporary socio-spatial organization is founded on land theft and/or the propertization of human beings. Today, we are witnessing the contemporary manifestations of these historical drivers of displacement and dispossession. These dynamics are especially acute for Black/African/Afro-descendent women whose lives - historically reduced to property - literally facilitated the establishment and growth of societies around the world. Yet, mainstream global urban discourse and studies are proving ill-equipped to deal with the global, relational and intergenerational entanglements and of race, gender, land and property as foundational to contemporary urban dynamics.
Black peoples exist all over the world. However, Blackness, while often attributed to sites of dispossession, cannot be contained by conventional conceptualizations of subjugation. Black knowledge systems did not begin with encounters with coloniality, imperialism and whiteness; nor are they wholly shaped by them. Blackness, therefore, can be engaged as productively disruptive to the death-dealing logics of the truth-making disciplines and institutions through which it is maintained. Building on the work of post-colonial critics, Southern and African urban scholars, this paper engages the interdisciplinary fields of Black, property/land, feminist/gender and abolition studies alongside Black archives and creative texts; as a restorative, globally-relevant, epistemic practice of using freedom-making theories/methodologies to situate the urban ‘South’ as a site of theorisation and to position Black women at the centre of their own knowledge production.
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Accepted Paper:
Lena Phillips (African Centre for Cities)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Land and property exist as critical issues locally and globally; transcending the North-South divide and forcing urgent considerations around urban justice. This is especially true in post/settler-colonial and/or slave-owning societies whose contemporary socio-spatial organization is founded on land theft and/or the propertization of human beings. Today, we are witnessing the contemporary manifestations of these historical drivers of displacement and dispossession. These dynamics are especially acute for Black/African/Afro-descendent women whose lives - historically reduced to property - literally facilitated the establishment and growth of societies around the world. Yet, mainstream global urban discourse and studies are proving ill-equipped to deal with the global, relational and intergenerational entanglements and of race, gender, land and property as foundational to contemporary urban dynamics.
Black peoples exist all over the world. However, Blackness, while often attributed to sites of dispossession, cannot be contained by conventional conceptualizations of subjugation. Black knowledge systems did not begin with encounters with coloniality, imperialism and whiteness; nor are they wholly shaped by them. Blackness, therefore, can be engaged as productively disruptive to the death-dealing logics of the truth-making disciplines and institutions through which it is maintained. Building on the work of post-colonial critics, Southern and African urban scholars, this paper engages the interdisciplinary fields of Black, property/land, feminist/gender and abolition studies alongside Black archives and creative texts; as a restorative, globally-relevant, epistemic practice of using freedom-making theories/methodologies to situate the urban ‘South’ as a site of theorisation and to position Black women at the centre of their own knowledge production.
Leaving, Living and Learning: Knowledge Production and its Impact on Designing Just Sustainable Futures
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -