Abstract
This paper introduces the collection of six African-Caribbean academics, making the claim for the forum as an intervention that pushes towards the firmer establishment of a Black British Geography. This intervention forum arises out of a public event called “Urban roots of creative Black culture: gender, music, and the body,” which took place at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, UK, in 2019, and was co-sponsored by this journal, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (TIBG). After an introductory piece, the forum brings together four short papers by contributors to the event, each exploring Black creative culture, gender, music, and embodiment in relation to the city, archives, dance, and creative practice (respectively). Bringing together six African-Caribbean academics, the forum is an intervention that presents aspects of an emergent Black British Geography and, as such, challenges Geography as a discipline to be sufficiently open to accommodate it.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 509-511 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author's thanks go to the co-sponsors of the event on which the forum was based: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and the Society for Caribbean Studies. Beyond this, no research funding was made available to research this introduction.
Publisher Copyright:
The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2020 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
Keywords
- archives
- Black British Geographies
- Black creativity
- Black culture
- embodiment
- urban culture
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth-Surface Processes