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Date limite de soumission : jeudi 30 avril 2026
Appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial dirigé par Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College, et Caroline Bressey, University College London).
La date limite d’envoi des abstracts est le 30 avril 2026 à domosh chez dartmouth.edu and c.bressey chez ucl.ac.uk
« In his 1925 essay, ‘The Negro Digs up his Past’, Arthur Schomburg argued for the importance of archive building for Black Histories, and the importance of such histories in the critical interrogation of national histories, of the importance of what could be found in ‘neglected and rust-spotted pages’ for community formations, and for the ‘spiritual nourishment’ that knowledge of a cultural past can bring. Schomburg’s essay has a broad geographical imagination. He called for the digging of Black pasts (pasts of ‘The Negro’, the ‘Black’, ‘the African’ and ‘the colored’ folk) to be undertaken in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the span of its colonies, in the rust-spotted pages of neglected texts in public libraries, the memoirs of the formerly enslaved, the declarations of resistance in uprisings, in music, in art, in Spanish, French and Latin, in the skill and beauty of African crafts.
A century on from Schomburg’s essay, this call for papers seeks to gather together a collection reflecting upon historical geographies and Black archives (however defined), in order to mark a moment in Black History making, to consider how historical geography and geographers more broadly have paid attention, or not, to the epistemological work that has been undertaken by scholars using, rethinking, making, and remaking Black archives, and to reflect on how that epistemological work can inform historically-minded geography.
We invite expressions of interest to contribute to the collection that reflect both the methodological and empirical richness of Black historical geographies.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) :
questioning what constitutes a Black archive ;
alternatives to traditional archives ;
the politics of creating Black archives & the politics of Blackness in archives ;
archives under threat (loss, vulnerable digital archives, EDI attacks ; re-closure of previously open archives) ;
the challenges of translation ;
what the Black archive teaches us about history and historical geography ;
the move from rust-spotted pages now cleaned up for digital databases ;
reflections on writing (or other research) practice ;
histories still to be surfaced within the discipline.
Essays may take many forms, including :
conversations between colleagues ;
photo essays that draw on and in the materiality of the archive ;
creative responses to archives and/or the lack thereof. »
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