Katherine Mckittrick
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106510 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katherine Mckittrick |
| PRENOMES | Katherine |
| SOBRENOME | Mckittrick |
| ASSINATURA | MCKITTRICK K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking
In Spring 2025 a collective of artists, scholars, poets, curators, and designers exhibited A Smile Split by the Stars, which closely engaged a single poem, nourbeSe philip’s “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones.” Working with philip and her archival materials, the installation sought to spatialize the poem by staging a series of multi-textured, multi-sensorial, and audio-visual compositions. This essay …
On the Poetics of Migration, Black Geographies, and Nervous Conditions
This conversation began in Winter 2023, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At the time we were collectively studying Black geographies. As faculty and students who are part of the Black diaspora yet have very different experiences of displacement, our discussions revolved around the uneasy connections between education, university life, migration, and Blackness. Inspired by the writings of Simone Browne, on January 25, 2024, the …
Strategies for Liberation
This is an interview with Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program. McKittrick discusses Demonic Grounds , her pathbreaking study of Black women's geographies, on the advent of the twentieth anniversary of its publication
Plantagenzukünfte
Respite. Quiet. A House of Dreams
Black scholars work with multimodal and interdisciplinary texts and ideas. If we read across black studies, from slave narratives to the present, we can observe that black creatives and intellectuals and organizers thread together the arts, the hard sciences, history, sociology, music, math, ecology, architecture, dance, economics, and more. In bringing together multiple sets of ideas, these thinkers and artists challenge the hierarchical organiz…
Dear April
Exploring textual accumulation as a methodological practice, this paper (first presented as the 2021 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture on 8 April) works through how the aesthetics of black miscellanea, and the engagement with overlapping and conflicting texts that are affixed, uncovers moments of clarity that complicate typical conceptualisations of opacity. The moments of clarity unravel as lessons, with the aesthetics of blac…
Demonic Grounds
Dear Science and Other Stories
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists r…
Rift
The rift is a conceptual opening that recognises subversion and disruption as a form of black thought; this thought seeks out and engenders the intellectual praxis of living this world and seeking liberation by challenging prevailing systems of knowledge that devalue black people, their ideas, and their worlds. Seeking liberation, in a world that does not and cannot imagine or support black liberation, disrupts oppressive infrastructures and arch…
Keywords in Radical Geography
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word Katherine McKittrick (bio), Frances H. O'Shaughnessy (bio), and Kendall Witaszek (bio) If you don't dance, make sure you got the rhythm Make sure that your heartbeat beats with the rhythm. —Robyn Rihanna Fenty, "Dancing in the Dark" The writings of Sylvia Wynter are, in part, animated by her difficult concept "science of the word." This concept identifies two overlapping themes. The first is Wynte…
Neil Smith's Long Revolutionary Imperative
Whether writing about gentrification or nature, the production of space or the politics of scale, uneven development or public space, globalization or revolution, the geographer Neil Smith was nothing if not provocative. Neither Festschrift nor hagiography, this special issue of Antipode critically engages Smith's work-not to unpick the rich tapestry, but to draw the threads out and spin them on in new directions. Consisting of newly commissioned…
Rebellion/Invention/Groove
This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's "Black Metamorphosis" and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights, the essay argues that plantation activities were rebellious and inventive spaces that enunciate "the revolutionary demand for happiness." This demand for happiness draws attention…
Diachronic loops/deadweight tonnage/bad made measure
This article is a relational conversation nested in black studies, science studies of blackness and race, geographies of knowledge, and black creative text. The overlying purpose is to address how the social production of biologically determinist racial scripts - which extend from a biocentric conception of the human - can be dislodged by bringing studies of blackness in/and science into conversation with autopoietics, black Atlantic livingness, …
Axis, Bold as Love
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?
Sylvia Wynter
Yours in the Intellectual Struggle
Sylvia Wynter
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013)
Mathematics Black Life
(2014). Mathematics Black Life. The Black Scholar: Vol. 44, States of Black Studies, pp. 16-28
Plantation Futures
This essay explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place
Quiescent Change
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
This paper considers the plantation as a geographic scale-a site of violent production and racialized subject formation-that continues to animate and inform black geographies of place. I argue that the plantation continues to matter, not as some static relic of the past, but as a generative geography that structures contemporary black life and landscapes. I trace the plantation's geographic life through an examination of prison landscapes, black …
Demonic Grounds
IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geographic thought. They would be demonic oppression is not speaking about her behaviour or want to demonic. Start youd be a generation police have. And I did not from this being used to determine whether thats go claiming this. All seeing more and great commission matthew while it means offended is jesus.…
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
This paper considers the plantation as a geographic scale-a site of violent production and racialized subject formation-that continues to animate and inform black geographies of place. I argue that the plantation continues to matter, not as some static relic of the past, but as a generative geography that structures contemporary black life and landscapes. I trace the plantation's geographic life through an examination of prison landscapes, black …
Dear Science and Other Stories
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists r…
Sylvia Wynter
Mathematics Black Life
(2014). Mathematics Black Life. The Black Scholar: Vol. 44, States of Black Studies, pp. 16-28
Diachronic loops/deadweight tonnage/bad made measure
This article is a relational conversation nested in black studies, science studies of blackness and race, geographies of knowledge, and black creative text. The overlying purpose is to address how the social production of biologically determinist racial scripts - which extend from a biocentric conception of the human - can be dislodged by bringing studies of blackness in/and science into conversation with autopoietics, black Atlantic livingness, …
Dear April
Exploring textual accumulation as a methodological practice, this paper (first presented as the 2021 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture on 8 April) works through how the aesthetics of black miscellanea, and the engagement with overlapping and conflicting texts that are affixed, uncovers moments of clarity that complicate typical conceptualisations of opacity. The moments of clarity unravel as lessons, with the aesthetics of blac…
Who do you talk to, when a body's in trouble
This paper examines Marlene Nourbese Philip's 'Dis Place—The Space Between' to argue that black women's bodies are troubled by Philip in order to reconceptualize and reinvent location, corporeality, subjectivities, and dominant historical narratives. In situating blackness and black femininity within a displaced, or 'anywhere' framework, Philip scrutinizes and redraws the places of black women's bodies in the New World so that we might reconsider…
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word Katherine McKittrick (bio), Frances H. O'Shaughnessy (bio), and Kendall Witaszek (bio) If you don't dance, make sure you got the rhythm Make sure that your heartbeat beats with the rhythm. —Robyn Rihanna Fenty, "Dancing in the Dark" The writings of Sylvia Wynter are, in part, animated by her difficult concept "science of the word." This concept identifies two overlapping themes. The first is Wynte…
Rebellion/Invention/Groove
This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's "Black Metamorphosis" and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights, the essay argues that plantation activities were rebellious and inventive spaces that enunciate "the revolutionary demand for happiness." This demand for happiness draws attention…
Black and’ Cause I'm Black I'm Blue
The aim of this article is to address how Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, points to different experiences of geographical scales and space that simultaneously complicate and reiterate the meaning of being black. Places, bodies and minds, as they intertwine, fluctuate, and ostensibly stay the same, play off each other in complicated ways in Morrison's novel. Drawing on anti-racist theory and from anti-racist and feminist geographies, …
Neil Smith's Long Revolutionary Imperative
Whether writing about gentrification or nature, the production of space or the politics of scale, uneven development or public space, globalization or revolution, the geographer Neil Smith was nothing if not provocative. Neither Festschrift nor hagiography, this special issue of Antipode critically engages Smith's work-not to unpick the rich tapestry, but to draw the threads out and spin them on in new directions. Consisting of newly commissioned…
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013)
Respite. Quiet. A House of Dreams
Black scholars work with multimodal and interdisciplinary texts and ideas. If we read across black studies, from slave narratives to the present, we can observe that black creatives and intellectuals and organizers thread together the arts, the hard sciences, history, sociology, music, math, ecology, architecture, dance, economics, and more. In bringing together multiple sets of ideas, these thinkers and artists challenge the hierarchical organiz…
Quiescent Change
Black and’ Cause I'm Black I'm Blue
The aim of this article is to address how Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, points to different experiences of geographical scales and space that simultaneously complicate and reiterate the meaning of being black. Places, bodies and minds, as they intertwine, fluctuate, and ostensibly stay the same, play off each other in complicated ways in Morrison's novel. Drawing on anti-racist theory and from anti-racist and feminist geographies, …
Who do you talk to, when a body's in trouble
This paper examines Marlene Nourbese Philip's 'Dis Place—The Space Between' to argue that black women's bodies are troubled by Philip in order to reconceptualize and reinvent location, corporeality, subjectivities, and dominant historical narratives. In situating blackness and black femininity within a displaced, or 'anywhere' framework, Philip scrutinizes and redraws the places of black women's bodies in the New World so that we might reconsider…
Demonic Grounds
IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geographic thought. They would be demonic oppression is not speaking about her behaviour or want to demonic. Start youd be a generation police have. And I did not from this being used to determine whether thats go claiming this. All seeing more and great commission matthew while it means offended is jesus.…
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
This paper considers the plantation as a geographic scale-a site of violent production and racialized subject formation-that continues to animate and inform black geographies of place. I argue that the plantation continues to matter, not as some static relic of the past, but as a generative geography that structures contemporary black life and landscapes. I trace the plantation's geographic life through an examination of prison landscapes, black …
Quiescent Change
Plantation Futures
This essay explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions of decolonial practices, black life, and black futures are embedded in place
Mathematics Black Life
(2014). Mathematics Black Life. The Black Scholar: Vol. 44, States of Black Studies, pp. 16-28
Axis, Bold as Love
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?
Sylvia Wynter
Yours in the Intellectual Struggle
Sylvia Wynter
Remembering and reading the work of Richard Iton (1961–2013)
Rebellion/Invention/Groove
This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's "Black Metamorphosis" and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights, the essay argues that plantation activities were rebellious and inventive spaces that enunciate "the revolutionary demand for happiness." This demand for happiness draws attention…
Diachronic loops/deadweight tonnage/bad made measure
This article is a relational conversation nested in black studies, science studies of blackness and race, geographies of knowledge, and black creative text. The overlying purpose is to address how the social production of biologically determinist racial scripts - which extend from a biocentric conception of the human - can be dislodged by bringing studies of blackness in/and science into conversation with autopoietics, black Atlantic livingness, …
Neil Smith's Long Revolutionary Imperative
Whether writing about gentrification or nature, the production of space or the politics of scale, uneven development or public space, globalization or revolution, the geographer Neil Smith was nothing if not provocative. Neither Festschrift nor hagiography, this special issue of Antipode critically engages Smith's work-not to unpick the rich tapestry, but to draw the threads out and spin them on in new directions. Consisting of newly commissioned…
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word
Rhythm, or On Sylvia Wynter's Science of the Word Katherine McKittrick (bio), Frances H. O'Shaughnessy (bio), and Kendall Witaszek (bio) If you don't dance, make sure you got the rhythm Make sure that your heartbeat beats with the rhythm. —Robyn Rihanna Fenty, "Dancing in the Dark" The writings of Sylvia Wynter are, in part, animated by her difficult concept "science of the word." This concept identifies two overlapping themes. The first is Wynte…
Rift
The rift is a conceptual opening that recognises subversion and disruption as a form of black thought; this thought seeks out and engenders the intellectual praxis of living this world and seeking liberation by challenging prevailing systems of knowledge that devalue black people, their ideas, and their worlds. Seeking liberation, in a world that does not and cannot imagine or support black liberation, disrupts oppressive infrastructures and arch…
Keywords in Radical Geography
Demonic Grounds
Dear Science and Other Stories
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists r…
Dear April
Exploring textual accumulation as a methodological practice, this paper (first presented as the 2021 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture on 8 April) works through how the aesthetics of black miscellanea, and the engagement with overlapping and conflicting texts that are affixed, uncovers moments of clarity that complicate typical conceptualisations of opacity. The moments of clarity unravel as lessons, with the aesthetics of blac…
Respite. Quiet. A House of Dreams
Black scholars work with multimodal and interdisciplinary texts and ideas. If we read across black studies, from slave narratives to the present, we can observe that black creatives and intellectuals and organizers thread together the arts, the hard sciences, history, sociology, music, math, ecology, architecture, dance, economics, and more. In bringing together multiple sets of ideas, these thinkers and artists challenge the hierarchical organiz…
Plantagenzukünfte
On the Poetics of Migration, Black Geographies, and Nervous Conditions
This conversation began in Winter 2023, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At the time we were collectively studying Black geographies. As faculty and students who are part of the Black diaspora yet have very different experiences of displacement, our discussions revolved around the uneasy connections between education, university life, migration, and Blackness. Inspired by the writings of Simone Browne, on January 25, 2024, the …
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