Overlapping currents: navigating (anti)colonial water geographies via geopoetics

重叠的水流：通过地缘诗学导航（反）殖民水地理

• 批准号: ES/Y00986X/1
• 金额: $ 16.54万
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY00986X%2F1
• 关键词: Overlapping; currents; navigating; anti; colonial

How can creative approaches contribute to geographical understandings of - and responses to - watery places transformed by colonialism, racial capitalism, and ecological crisis? The aim of this fellowship will be to engage with this question by developing and sharing key findings from my PhD thesis. Titled 'Overlapping currents: watery geographies, Black and Indigenous poetics, and the Anthropocene', the thesis offered an interdisciplinary approach to poetic work that engages with watery environments in Turtle Island/North America and the Pacific islands, from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to lead pipe infrastructure in Flint, Michigan, and from streams diverted by the sugar industry in Hawai'i to militarised coastlines in Guahan. I develop innovative approaches to connect poetic methods to spatial politics in multiple forms, including place-based performances, activisms, and interventions in water infrastructures. My key findings include:1. Creative practices can pay attention to how watery places are made, maintained, and transformed environmentally and socially. Poetic work can connect and juxtapose multiple discourses and perspectives on place - from environmental impact reports, to oral narratives about marine life, to anti-colonial demands for demilitarisation - and also generate different imaginaries.2. Poetic engagements with watery places (including oceans and rivers, canals and pipes) offer ways of perceiving how the impacts of colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental degradation in these places are durational and non-linear. Poetic work can approach watery places formally as well as thematically, using a range of techniques to move across multiple spatial and temporal scales.3. The ways that water circulates through bodies and geographies is shaped by colonial and capitalist infrastructures and has racialised and gendered impacts. My 'overlapping currents' approach attends to material relations within and between watery geographies and dynamics of power that organise them.4. Black and Indigenous feminist and queer approaches mobilise creative methodologies to understand and transform ongoing interconnections between colonialism, racial violence, heteropatriarchy, and environmental degradation. These bodies of work open up generative dialogues - and tensions - with geographical scholarship.I will use the fellowship to share these findings with multiple audiences, and to enhance the practice- and field-based and collaborative elements of my research. The most substantial output will be a monograph based on my PhD thesis, titled 'Overlapping Currents: Watery Geographies and Poetic Bearings beyond Colonial Racial Capitalism'. The second half of the book project will be supported by a small amount of new research in Hawai'i, building on a planned and funded research trip during my doctoral research that could not go ahead owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The research will enable me to engage in greater depth with key poetic interlocutors and sites from my thesis and to develop collaborative relationships that will shape future research. While in Hawai'i, I will share and receive feedback on my work at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. I will also increase my work's impact by presenting at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, publishing blog posts and interviews in public venues, and designing and delivering public engagement activities including a workshop on anti-colonial poetics of water in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum (UK) and a Hawai'i-based poet. I will build capacity in emerging researchers working with creative geographical methods by running a pilot workshop and contributing to postgraduate teaching in Geography at RHUL. I will also work towards the next steps of my academic career by applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.

创造性方法如何有助于对因殖民主义、种族资本主义和生态危机而改变的水域的地理理解和应对？该奖学金的目的是通过开发和分享我的博士论文的主要发现来解决这个问题。该论文题为“重叠的水流：水域地理、黑人和土著诗学以及人类世”，为诗歌作品提供了一种跨学科的方法，涉及来自大西洋深处的海龟岛/北美和太平洋岛屿的水环境引导密歇根州弗林特的管道基础设施，以及从夏威夷制糖业改道的溪流到瓜汉的军事化海岸线。我开发了创新方法，以多种形式将诗意方法与空间政治联系起来，包括基于地点的表演、行动主义和对水基础设施的干预。我的主要发现包括：1。创意实践可以关注水生场所如何在环境和社会上建造、维护和改造。诗歌作品可以连接和并列关于地方的多种话语和观点——从环境影响报告到关于海洋生物的口头叙述，到非军事化的反殖民要求——并且还产生不同的想象。2。与水域（包括海洋和河流、运河和管道）的诗意接触提供了感知殖民主义、种族资本主义和环境退化对这些地方的影响是如何持续和非线性的方式。诗歌作品可以在形式上和主题上接近水乡，使用一系列技术跨越多个空间和时间尺度。3。水在人体和地理区域的循环方式受到殖民和资本主义基础设施的影响，并具有种族和性别影响。我的“重叠潮流​​”方法关注水域地理内部和之间的物质关系以及组织它们的权力动态。4。黑人和土著女权主义和酷儿方法动员创造性的方法来理解和改变殖民主义、种族暴力、异性父权制和环境退化之间持续存在的相互联系。这些工作机构与地理学术展开了生成性对话和紧张关系。我将利用该奖学金与多个受众分享这些发现，并加强我的研究的实践和基于领域的协作元素。最实质性的产出将是基于我的博士论文的专着，题为“重叠的潮流：超越殖民种族资本主义的水性地理和诗意轴承”。本书项目的后半部分将得到夏威夷的少量新研究的支持，这些研究以我博士研究期间计划和资助的研究旅行为基础，但由于 Covid-19 大流行而无法继续。这项研究将使我能够更深入地与论文中的关键诗歌对话者和地点进行接触，并发展将塑造未来研究的合作关系。在夏威夷期间，我将在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校和美国地理学家协会 (AAG) 年会上分享并收到有关我的工作的反馈。我还将通过在皇家地理学会 (RGS-IBG) 年会上发表演讲、在公共场所发表博客文章和采访、设计和开展公众参与活动（包括合作举办反殖民水诗学研讨会）来提高我的工作影响力与国家海事博物馆（英国）和一位夏威夷诗人合作。我将通过举办试点研讨会并为 RHUL 的地理学研究生教学做出贡献，培养新兴研究人员使用创造性地理方法的能力。我还将通过申请 Leverhulme 早期职业奖学金来努力迈向学术生涯的下一步。