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造的水域的地理理解和反应？这个奖学金的目的是通过发展和分享我的博士论文的关键发现来参与这个问题。标题为“重叠电流：水的地理，黑人和土著诗学，和人类世，论文提供了一个跨学科的方法，诗歌工作，从事与海龟岛/北美和太平洋岛屿的水环境，从大西洋深处的弗林特，密歇根州的铅管道基础设施，并从流转移的制糖工业在夏威夷的军事化海岸线。我开发了创新的方法，以多种形式将诗意的方法与空间政治联系起来，包括基于场所的表演，行动主义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水的地方是如何制造的，维护的，以及在环境和社会方面的转变。诗意的作品可以连接和并列的多个话语和观点的地方-从环境影响报告，对海洋生物的口头叙述，反殖民要求非军事化-也产生不同的纪念品。与水域（包括海洋和河流，运河和管道）的诗意接触提供了感知殖民主义，种族资本主义和环境退化在这些地方的影响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域，使用一系列技术跨越多个空间和时间尺度。水在身体和地理环境中循环的方式是由殖民主义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”方法关注的是水域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方法动员创造性的方法来理解和改变殖民主义，种族暴力，异性恋和环境退化之间正在进行的相互联系。这些工作机构打开生成对话-和紧张局势-与地理奖学金.我将使用奖学金与多个观众分享这些发现，并加强实践和实地为基础的和协作的元素我的研究.最实质性的成果将是一本基于我的博士论文的专著，题为“重叠的电流：超越殖民种族资本主义的水域地理和诗意轴承”。这本书的后半部分将得到夏威夷的少量新研究的支持，这些研究建立在我博士研究期间计划和资助的研究之旅的基础上，由于新冠肺炎大流行而无法进行。这项研究将使我能够更深入地接触我论文中的关键诗歌对话者和网站，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）年会上分享我的工作并收到反馈。我还将通过在皇家地理学会（RGS-IBG）年会上发表演讲，发表博客文章和在公共场所接受采访，设计和提供公众参与活动，包括与国家海事博物馆（英国）和夏威夷-我将通过运行一个试点研讨会和促进在RHUL地理研究生教学的新兴研究人员与创造性的地理方法工作的能力。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.