Lunch seminar on Black Ecologies

Special ISS seminar with Dr J.T. Roane
Dark Agoras: Insurgent black social life and the politics of place - J.T. Roane
Assistant professor
Dr J.T. Roane
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Geography and Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice Profile Dr J.T. Roane
PhD student
Date
Monday 30 Jan 2023, 13:00 - 14:30
Type
Seminar
Spoken Language
English
Room
Attic
Location
International Institute of Social Studies
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Dark Agoras: Insurgent black social life and the politics of place - J.T. Roane - book cover
J.T. Roane

Dr J.T. Roane discusses his book, Dark Agoras: Insurgent black social life and the politics of place, showing how working class Black communities cultivated two interdependent  modes of insurgent assembly in 20th century Philadelphia.

He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.

In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city’s social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of progressive and post-progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them.

PhD researcher Jonny Moniz will be the discussant, reflecting on the work of Dr Roane.

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