Overlapping currents: navigating (anti)colonial water geographies via geopoetics

创造性的方法如何有助于对被殖民主义、种族资本主义和生态危机改变的水域的地理理解和回应？这个奖学金的目的是通过发展和分享我博士论文中的关键发现来解决这个问题。题目为“重叠的水流：水地理，黑人和土著诗学，以及人类世”，这篇论文提供了一种跨学科的诗歌工作方法，涉及海龟岛/北美和太平洋岛屿的水环境，从大西洋深处到密歇根州弗林特的铅管基础设施，从夏威夷制糖业分流的溪流到关岛军事化的海岸线。我开发了创新的方法，以多种形式将诗歌方法与空间政治联系起来，包括基于地点的表演、活动和对水基础设施的干预。我的主要发现包括：1。创造性的实践可以关注如何在环境和社会上建造、维护和改造有水的地方。从环境影响报告到海洋生物的口头叙述，再到非军事化的反殖民要求，诗歌作品可以连接和并列多种话语和观点，也可以产生不同的想象。与水的地方（包括海洋和河流、运河和管道）的诗意接触，提供了一种感知殖民主义、种族资本主义和环境退化对这些地方的影响是如何持续和非线性的方式。诗歌作品可以在形式上和主题上接近水的地方，使用一系列的技术来跨越多个空间和时间尺度。水在身体和地理上的循环方式是由殖民和资本主义基础设施塑造的，并具有种族化和性别化的影响。我的“重叠流”方法关注的是水地理内部和之间的物质关系，以及组织它们的权力动态。黑人和土著女权主义者和酷儿的方法调动了创造性的方法来理解和改变殖民主义、种族暴力、异性恋父权制和环境退化之间持续的相互联系。这些作品与地理学术展开了富有创造性的对话——以及紧张关系。我将利用奖学金与众多观众分享这些发现，并加强我的研究的实践和领域为基础和协作元素。最重要的成果将是基于我的博士论文的专著，题为“重叠的潮流：超越殖民种族资本主义的水地理和诗意”。本书的后半部分将由夏威夷的少量新研究提供支持，这是基于我在博士研究期间计划和资助的一次研究之旅，由于Covid-19大流行而无法继续进行。这项研究将使我能够从我的论文中与关键的诗歌对话者和地点进行更深入的研究，并发展将塑造未来研究的合作关系。在夏威夷期间，我将在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校和美国地理学家协会（AAG）年会上分享和接受我的工作反馈。我还将通过在皇家地理学会（RGS-IBG）年会上发表演讲，在公共场所发表博客文章和采访，以及设计和提供公众参与活动来增加我的工作的影响力，包括与国家海事博物馆（英国）和夏威夷诗人合作举办的反殖民水诗学研讨会。我将通过开办一个试点讲习班和为RHUL地理学研究生教学作出贡献，培养新兴研究人员使用创造性地理方法的能力。我还将通过申请Leverhulme早期职业奖学金来努力实现我学术生涯的下一步。

How can creative approaches contribute to geographical understandings of - and responses to - watery places transformed by colonialism, racial capitalism, and ecological crisis? The aim of this fellowship will be to engage with this question by developing and sharing key findings from my PhD thesis. Titled 'Overlapping currents: watery geographies, Black and Indigenous poetics, and the Anthropocene', the thesis offered an interdisciplinary approach to poetic work that engages with watery environments in Turtle Island/North America and the Pacific islands, from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to lead pipe infrastructure in Flint, Michigan, and from streams diverted by the sugar industry in Hawai'i to militarised coastlines in Guahan. I develop innovative approaches to connect poetic methods to spatial politics in multiple forms, including place-based performances, activisms, and interventions in water infrastructures. My key findings include:1. Creative practices can pay attention to how watery places are made, maintained, and transformed environmentally and socially. Poetic work can connect and juxtapose multiple discourses and perspectives on place - from environmental impact reports, to oral narratives about marine life, to anti-colonial demands for demilitarisation - and also generate different imaginaries.2. Poetic engagements with watery places (including oceans and rivers, canals and pipes) offer ways of perceiving how the impacts of colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental degradation in these places are durational and non-linear. Poetic work can approach watery places formally as well as thematically, using a range of techniques to move across multiple spatial and temporal scales.3. The ways that water circulates through bodies and geographies is shaped by colonial and capitalist infrastructures and has racialised and gendered impacts. My 'overlapping currents' approach attends to material relations within and between watery geographies and dynamics of power that organise them.4. Black and Indigenous feminist and queer approaches mobilise creative methodologies to understand and transform ongoing interconnections between colonialism, racial violence, heteropatriarchy, and environmental degradation. These bodies of work open up generative dialogues - and tensions - with geographical scholarship.I will use the fellowship to share these findings with multiple audiences, and to enhance the practice- and field-based and collaborative elements of my research. The most substantial output will be a monograph based on my PhD thesis, titled 'Overlapping Currents: Watery Geographies and Poetic Bearings beyond Colonial Racial Capitalism'. The second half of the book project will be supported by a small amount of new research in Hawai'i, building on a planned and funded research trip during my doctoral research that could not go ahead owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The research will enable me to engage in greater depth with key poetic interlocutors and sites from my thesis and to develop collaborative relationships that will shape future research. While in Hawai'i, I will share and receive feedback on my work at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. I will also increase my work's impact by presenting at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, publishing blog posts and interviews in public venues, and designing and delivering public engagement activities including a workshop on anti-colonial poetics of water in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum (UK) and a Hawai'i-based poet. I will build capacity in emerging researchers working with creative geographical methods by running a pilot workshop and contributing to postgraduate teaching in Geography at RHUL. I will also work towards the next steps of my academic career by applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.