Geographies of Displacement/s

by Kendra Strauss (Editor)

Overview

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another.

The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization in 2020, produced new displacements and intensified existing patterns of displacement and dispossession. At the same time, socionatural displacements - floods, fires, droughts, hurricanes, sea-level rise, species loss, and dislocation - were the backdrop to the displaced and deferred hopes of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The chapters in this volume contend with how we as geographers conceptualize and theorize displacements; the range of sites, spaces, processes, affects, scales, and actors we study with to understand them; and what is at stake politically in how we research displacements. It is also a pandemic archive of academic labor, in which we find traces of displacements within and beyond the academic discipline of geography.

Geographies of Displacement/s will be of particular interest to students, scholars and researchers of Geography including those interested in human geography, socio-natural displacements, and the politics of migration and displacement. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032463346
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/09/2024
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kendra Strauss is a Feminist Economic and Labour Geographer who has published widely on paid and unpaid work, care labour, social reproduction, and geographies of labor regulation. She is a Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, where she is the Director of the Labour Studies Program, and an Associate Member of the Department of Geography. She is also an Editor, Human Geography, for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Displacements Part 1: Theorizing Displacements 1. The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement 2. Provincializing Trump: Organized Displacement in Global Politics 3. Environmental Displacement in the Anthropocene 4. Species on the Move: Environmental Change, Displacement and Conservation 5. Cumulative Socionatural Displacements: Reconceptualizing Climate Displacements in a World Already on the Move 6. The Power to Stay: Climate, Cocoa, and the Politics of Displacement 7. Robotics, Affective Displacement, and the Automation of Care Part 2: Understanding Experiences of Displacement: Concepts, Methodologies, and Data 8. Lessons from Fire: The Displaced Radiata Pine on Mapuche Homelands and the California Roots of Chile’s Climate Crisis 9. For Autoethnographies of Displacement Beyond Gentrification: The Body as Archive, Memory as Data 10. Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement 11. The Double Bind of Displacement: U.S. Sanctions, the Muslim Ban, and Experiences of Dislocation for Iranians Pursuing Higher Education in the United States 12. Urban Flight and Rural Rights in a Pandemic: Exploring Narratives of Place, Displacement, and “the Right to Be Rural” in the Context of COVID-19 Part 3: Urbanization and Infrastructures 13. Rebordering South Asia: Displaced Persons and Urbanization 14. Market-Induced Displacement and Its Afterlives: Lived Experiences of Loss and Resilience 15. Subterranean Displacements and Replacements in Singapore: Politics, Materialities, and Mentalities 16. Vertical Gentrification: A 3D Analysis of Luxury Housing Development in New York City 17. Displacement without Redistribution: Practicality and Reproduction in the Digitalization of Logistics Part 4: Bringing in the State 18. Disrupting Infrastructures of Colonial Hydro-Modernity: Lepcha and Dakelh Struggles against Temporal and Territorial Displacements 19. Revisiting the Natures of War: Aegean Islands and the Ecologies of Displacement during the Civil War (1946–1949) 20. Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement 21. Precarious (Dis)Placement: Temporality and the Legal Rewriting of Refugee Protection in Denmark Part 5: Politics and Praxis 22. Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies 23. Disrupting Displacements: Making Knowledges for Futures Otherwise in Gullah/Geechee Nation 24. Community-Engaged Regenerative Mapping in an Age of Displacement and COVID-19 25. “Migration Is Not a Crime”: Migrant Justice and the Creative Uses of Paddington Bear 26. “We’re Still Here”: An Abolition Ecology Blockade of Double Dispossession of Gullah/Geechee Land