GEOG 595 A: Special Topics in Geography

This course will be an opportunity to think together around intersections of empire, colonialism, capitalism, and fascism globally, as well ongoing anti-imperial, anticapitalist, and antifascist struggles. We’ll read a bit from foundational texts as we explore what imperial formations are, and how they have been examined in critical geographic thought as well as in other fields such as critical race studies, feminist studies, science and technology studies, American studies, and anthropology. While paying attention to space, race, and interlocking systems of domination, we’ll also think through long histories of social movements and theorizations oriented towards conceptualizing, crafting, and sustaining anti-imperial spatial futures. We’ll then pivot towards reading interdisciplinary ethnographies and other critical engagements useful in assessing the contemporary political conjuncture and the multiple imperial legacies informing it. This will aid in our ability to map complex genealogies of anti-imperial revolution and resistance also shaping the contemporary world.