This panel explores the affordances of multimodal methodologies and visual analysis for reimagining how we engage with the pasts and futures of racialized places. Featuring work from the Caribbean, US South, Central America and Southern Africa, the panel brings together critical race theory,  Black geographies and critical Indigenous studies in a conversation between diverse approaches to remapping the relations between space and social difference that emerge amidst coloniality, extractivism, and dispossession. Drawing on photography and filmmaking, cartography and collage, these presentations also sketch new ways of configuring the ethical, political, and intersubjective terrain on which the ethnographic, photographic and cartographic encounter can unfold. 

Keywords: racialized geographies, Black geographies, indigenous knowledge, multimodal, dispossession, intersubjective encounter, visual ethics, decoloniality, climate, planning, threat

Talks & Panelists:

• Across Time and Space: Collage as Placing Method, Leniqueca Welcome (she/her), University of Pennsylvania

• On dispossessed time and its refusal, Larissa Andrea Johnson (she/her), University of Pennsylvania

• Tracing Mikhael Subotzky on Securitization: Intersubjectivity and the Photographic Encounter, Stefan Norgaard (he/him), Columbia University

• Locating Lockville: Relational Maps, Speculative Pasts, and Submerged Dreams, Morgan P. Vickers (they/them), UC Berkeley

• Map as Threat, Planning as Promise, Sheehan Moore (he/him), CUNY

• (Dis)placing the Weather: Decolonizing Ethnoclimatology and Indigenizing Climate Change, Christian Espinosa Schatz (he/him), Yale University

Discussant: Dr. Steven Feld, University of New Mexico
Moderated by Jeanne Lieberman