Dear Dr. Wu,
On behalf of the Department, allow me to me to say “thank you” for so effectively organizing and leading this semester’s colloquium series. Well done.
DA
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Subject: Re: Colloquium today (April 1)
Dear all,
The recording of today's colloquium is available now.
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Assistant Professor of Geography
309 Burchfiel Geography Building
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
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Subject: Reminder: Colloquium today (April 1)
Time: 4:30-5:45 pm on April 1
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/93826309464
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Subject: Colloquium this Thursday (April 1)
Dear all,
See below for the colloquium info. Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday.
Time: 4:30-5:45 pm on April 1
Speaker: Dr. Alex A. Moulton (CV)
Institution: Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee
Title:
Maroon Atlas: Cartography, Fugitive Production of Space, and Black Geographies of Colonial Jamaica
Abstract: Just as soon as European colonists had organized a plantation
system of agrarian production and wealth accumulation to be driven by enslaved Black labor in the so-called ‘New World’, Maroons started to mount an offensive. Maroons were Africans who escaped enslavement on the plantation and established settlements in the
rugged interior or hard to reach places—such as tropical forests and swamps of the Americas. Maroonage then, was a socio-spatial response to slavery and a counter-hegemonic assertion and enactment of Black humanity. Much work has focused on the triumphs of
the Maroons against colonial powers which often led colonial administrations to pursue peace treaties with the ‘rebels. Almost as voluminous is the work problematizing the Maroons, particularly regarding their agreement to terms in peace treaties that hindered
broad Black freedom in the colonial era. Considerably less attention has been placed on Maroon geographies—the spatial politics and outcomes of maroonage. Using the Jamaican Maroons as a case study, I draw on field research and archival research to suggest
what a Maroon Atlas might look like. Reading Maroon negotiation of space, through Black Geographies, I map maroonage as fugitive mode of producing space that can be grasped through the shifting cartographic representations of Jamaica. In doing so I move away
from prescriptive evaluations of the Maroons, to plotting the dynamic between maroonage and socio-ecological transformations. Focusing on geographies of maroonage clarifies the spatial sensibilities and agency of Maroons. Through a Maroon atlas we can connect
discontiguous physical and symbolic locations of Black counter-cultural life in the Black Atlantic.
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Qiusheng Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Geography
309 Burchfiel Geography Building
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
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