Graduate Seminar:
Race & Radical Placemaking
This graduate seminar brings multidisciplinary approaches to racial formation and radical placemaking, centering on new books in human geography. Students will engage with book-length monographs that demonstrate the importance of relational placemaking in Black, queer, Latinx and/or Indigenous communities. To build new theories, we will also grapple with authors’ positionalities and different methods employed including classic ethnography and archival work, and building out cohort-focused group interviews, storymaps, and drawing constellated neighborhood memories.
Last taught, winter 2024. Syllabus
Image: “Water Writes Phoenix, Arizona” photo by Andrew Curley. See https://www.estria.org/project/phoenix-arizona/
Curley, A., & Smith, S. (2024). The cene scene: Who gets to theorize global time and how do we center indigenous and black futurities? Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(1), 166-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231173865