World-making, desire, and the future

Article Geography

Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies

Callum Sutherland

Summary: In this paper, the author outlines the spatial imaginaries of the late radical thinker Mark Fisher. The focus is on culture and desire as forces that have been relatively overlooked in postcapitalist geographies. Three spatial imaginaries in Fisher's work are discussed, offering fresh ideas for postcapitalist geography and political strategy. The conclusion emphasizes the urgency of fostering cultural and political experiments that tap into latent popular desire for a reimagined communism.

DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (2023)

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Goodnight Colston. Mourning Slavery: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum-Atlantic City

Adom Philogene Heron

Summary: This essay offers an ethnographic itinerary through the spectral geographies of Bristol, a city haunted by the ghosts of slavery. It explores the significance of the riotous procession and aqueous burial as acts of social renewal and spiritual repair, along with other paths of restoration in the aftermath of Atlantic slavery.

ANTIPODE (2022)

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Article Environmental Studies

Urban specters

Asha Best et al.

Summary: This article explores haunting as a spatial method through the analysis of art installations, highlighting how Black women artists use haunting to express the connections between race, gender, speculation, and the present. It raises two questions, namely how haunting reveals the relationship between property, personhood, and the urban, and how haunting can be seen as a mode of rejecting displacement, banishment, and archival erasure to imagine livable urban futures.

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE (2021)

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