Divya P Tolia-Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 134253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Divya P Tolia-Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Divya P |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolia-Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | TOLIA-KELLY D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0428-8331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1357 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
Historical geographies of the 21st century: Challenging our praxis
Affective nationalisms and race
Decolonising museum cultures: An artist and a geographer in collaboration
There is much published research and strategic rhetoric on decolonising the discipline, the academy, and institutions of social and cultural importance. However, very little literature examines the stepping stones in the process of materially challenging, changing, and decolonising institutions themselves. This paper emerges as an outline of axes or episodes of dialogue in a collaborative journey between the artist Rosanna Raymond and myself, sin…
A day in the life of a Geographer: ‘Lone’ 1 , Black, Female
This piece is a narrative representation of the experience of being black and female in the discipline of Geography in the UK and beyond. The aim is to share an ethnographic research on race in Geography, based on day‐to‐day experience in the academy. The piece expresses some of the morphologies of black geographical life in everyday academia. The material has originally been shared in coaching and mentoring relationships with me. The quotes incl…
Rancière and the re-distribution of the sensible: The artist Rosanna Raymond, dissensus and postcolonial sensibilities within the spaces of the museum
Through aesthetics we can articulate affective politics and demonstrate new ways of 'doing' progressive politics. This article explores the politics and practice of dissensus within the museum with artist Rosanna Raymond. The article argues that the museum space, when critiqued through a postcolonial perspective and artistic practice, can be a vehicle for political change. Using Ranciere's account of 'politics', the article outlines how a 'redist…
Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices
The landscape of cultural geography: Ideologies lost
This piece reflects on the contemporary resonances, value and legacy of Cosgrove and Jackson's ( ) Area paper entitled ‘New directions in cultural geography’ (Area, 19, 95–101). It argues that much scholarship in today's cultural geography (its innovations and interventions), were inspired by Cosgrove and Jackson's call. These myriad collaborations and experimentation in formats include research outputs engaged in forms of poetry, art, theatre, d…
Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures
Anthropocenic culturecide: An Epitaph
Writing as a scholar who is firmly embedded in critical anti-racist and postcolonial practice in the world of cultural geography, my academic focus has been on the excluded, occluded, forgotten and
FeelingandBeingat the (Postcolonial) Museum: Presencing the Affective Politics of 'Race' and Culture
This article posits the value in considering the affective politics in the everyday space of the British Museum with a postcolonial lens. Based on research collaborations with artist Rosanna Raymond the article argues that the gallery space becomes a theatre of pain. The museum acts as a site of materialising the pain of epistemic violence, the rupture of genocide and the deadening of artefacts. The article examines the embodied experience of enc…
Postcolonial migrations
In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility.Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place.We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forg…
The geographies of cultural geography III: Material geographies, vibrant matters and risking surface geographies
The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field of material geographies and argues that scholars should aim to embrace the call of matter to think politically and beyond the surface. The review argues that there is a risk of doing ‘surface geographies’ where…
The geographies of cultural geography II: Visual culture
Geography is a visual discipline and as such holds a complex relationship with visual culture. In the last two decades the collaborations between geographers and artists has grown exponentially. In an era where public impact and engagement are politically encouraged, there is a risk of collapsing the differences between visual culture as a discipline and the visual as an accessible mode of research communication. This paper reviews the ways in wh…
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites
This paper picks up from extensive literatures that have addressed the relationship of heritage to national identity. Much work focuses upon the symbolic construction of the past through heritage institutions, but in so doing it tends to underplay the affective experience of heritage sites. In this paper we argue that it is the felt experience and the organisation of sensibilities towards heritage which are often as important, and that these have…
Narrating the postcolonial landscape: Archaeologies of race at Hadrian’s Wall
This paper presents research completed as part of an interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Tales of the Frontier’; both between the disciplines of geography and archaeology; and on the landscape narratives of Hadrian’s Wall. In particular, the paper unravels the currency of race‐geographies present in the collaboration, material interpretation and dissemination processes which included the curating of a public exhibition ‘An Archaeology of “Race”‘.…
Affect, Race, and Identities
Visceral, viscous theories of race after social constructivismOne of the opening moves of cultural studies has been to assert the primacy of culture in defining race and to argue that there is no biological foundation for racial differentiation; race is a myth, a social and cultural construction.This has been argued and the arguments for racial taxonomies imploded time and again through the work of scholars such as Hall (1990; 1996; 1997), Robert…
Archaeologies of Landscape: Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian’s Wall
This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian's Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These trajectories have their own material circulations in both solid and narrative forms. Here, we consider materiality through the cultures inspired by/of the Wall. Through the formulation of an interdisciplin…
The geographies of cultural geography I: Identities, Bodies and Race
This report proposes that if cultural geography seeks to continue to be ‘world-class’ and ‘international’ in its outlook and in praxis it then needs to shift the interface between the academy and the ‘other’ both within it and without. There is, in particular, a need to make academic aspirations more international and to make practice within the academy more inclusive and politically orientated towards valuing scholarship and scholars at the edge…
Hadrian's Wall: Embodied archaeologies of the linear monument
The aim of this article is to consider the value of an embodied account of Hadrian's Wall. This heritage site has often been understood in predominantly imperial and military terms. While this is a crucial aspect of the historical meanings of the monument, there has been little focus on factors such as changing social role, socialities produced through its presence, and perceptions of the Wall evident in historical accounts. Drawing on theoretica…
Motion/Emotion: Picturing Translocal Landscapes in theNurturing EcologiesResearch Project
In the Nurturing Ecologies research project the aim is to consider the emotional value of the Lake District landscape to mobile, translocal communities living in Lancashire and Cumbria. The research attempts to capture in the visual form of a set of paintings, the sensory responses to the English Lake District that these translocal communities have. The Lake District is a site where historically a singular narrative of English sensibility has bee…
Fear in Paradise: The Affective Registers of the English Lake District Landscape Re-visited
During the summer of 2004, the artist Graham Lowe and I undertook a research project entitled Nurturing Ecologies within the Lake District National Park (LDNP)at Windermere. This landscape, considered as an icon of “Englishness,” is revisited through the embodied and sensory experiences of post-migration residents of Lancashire and Cumbria in an attempt to unravel multiple relationships embedded in visitor engagements with this landscape and thus…
A Journey Through the Material Geographies of Diaspora Cultures: Four Modes of Environmental Memory
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Mobility/Stability: British Asian Cultures of 'Landscape and Englishness
This paper examines the way in which the (British) Asian diaspora creates a territory of belonging and a cultural nationalism within the British landscape. New, British Asian cultures of Englishness are figured through the experience of mobility from 'other' landscapes to England. The expression of new hybrids of cultural nationalism based on cultures of Englishness and landscape are presented in the tangible forms of Asian women's drawings of 'l…
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Locating processes of identification: Studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home
Memory has been figured as an important process of placing and locating people and communities, both geographically and socially. Memory has also been significant in research on people who are not part of a formal record of history. This memory work includes a focus on black identity, especially in the work of Toni Morrison and Paul Gilroy. This paper seeks to examine the relevance of memory and re-memory for the social geographies of the South A…
Materializing post-colonial geographies: Examining the textural landscapes of migration in the South Asian home
Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites
This paper picks up from extensive literatures that have addressed the relationship of heritage to national identity. Much work focuses upon the symbolic construction of the past through heritage institutions, but in so doing it tends to underplay the affective experience of heritage sites. In this paper we argue that it is the felt experience and the organisation of sensibilities towards heritage which are often as important, and that these have…
The geographies of cultural geography III: Material geographies, vibrant matters and risking surface geographies
The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field of material geographies and argues that scholars should aim to embrace the call of matter to think politically and beyond the surface. The review argues that there is a risk of doing ‘surface geographies’ where…
Archaeologies of Landscape: Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian’s Wall
This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian's Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These trajectories have their own material circulations in both solid and narrative forms. Here, we consider materiality through the cultures inspired by/of the Wall. Through the formulation of an interdisciplin…
Matter(s) in social and cultural geography
Fear in Paradise: The Affective Registers of the English Lake District Landscape Re-visited
During the summer of 2004, the artist Graham Lowe and I undertook a research project entitled Nurturing Ecologies within the Lake District National Park (LDNP)at Windermere. This landscape, considered as an icon of “Englishness,” is revisited through the embodied and sensory experiences of post-migration residents of Lancashire and Cumbria in an attempt to unravel multiple relationships embedded in visitor engagements with this landscape and thus…
Mobility/Stability: British Asian Cultures of 'Landscape and Englishness
This paper examines the way in which the (British) Asian diaspora creates a territory of belonging and a cultural nationalism within the British landscape. New, British Asian cultures of Englishness are figured through the experience of mobility from 'other' landscapes to England. The expression of new hybrids of cultural nationalism based on cultures of Englishness and landscape are presented in the tangible forms of Asian women's drawings of 'l…
Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices
Motion/Emotion: Picturing Translocal Landscapes in theNurturing EcologiesResearch Project
In the Nurturing Ecologies research project the aim is to consider the emotional value of the Lake District landscape to mobile, translocal communities living in Lancashire and Cumbria. The research attempts to capture in the visual form of a set of paintings, the sensory responses to the English Lake District that these translocal communities have. The Lake District is a site where historically a singular narrative of English sensibility has bee…
Postcolonial migrations
In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility.Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place.We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forg…
Affect, Race, and Identities
Visceral, viscous theories of race after social constructivismOne of the opening moves of cultural studies has been to assert the primacy of culture in defining race and to argue that there is no biological foundation for racial differentiation; race is a myth, a social and cultural construction.This has been argued and the arguments for racial taxonomies imploded time and again through the work of scholars such as Hall (1990; 1996; 1997), Robert…
A day in the life of a Geographer: ‘Lone’ 1 , Black, Female
This piece is a narrative representation of the experience of being black and female in the discipline of Geography in the UK and beyond. The aim is to share an ethnographic research on race in Geography, based on day‐to‐day experience in the academy. The piece expresses some of the morphologies of black geographical life in everyday academia. The material has originally been shared in coaching and mentoring relationships with me. The quotes incl…
The geographies of cultural geography I: Identities, Bodies and Race
This report proposes that if cultural geography seeks to continue to be ‘world-class’ and ‘international’ in its outlook and in praxis it then needs to shift the interface between the academy and the ‘other’ both within it and without. There is, in particular, a need to make academic aspirations more international and to make practice within the academy more inclusive and politically orientated towards valuing scholarship and scholars at the edge…
The geographies of cultural geography II: Visual culture
Geography is a visual discipline and as such holds a complex relationship with visual culture. In the last two decades the collaborations between geographers and artists has grown exponentially. In an era where public impact and engagement are politically encouraged, there is a risk of collapsing the differences between visual culture as a discipline and the visual as an accessible mode of research communication. This paper reviews the ways in wh…
FeelingandBeingat the (Postcolonial) Museum: Presencing the Affective Politics of 'Race' and Culture
This article posits the value in considering the affective politics in the everyday space of the British Museum with a postcolonial lens. Based on research collaborations with artist Rosanna Raymond the article argues that the gallery space becomes a theatre of pain. The museum acts as a site of materialising the pain of epistemic violence, the rupture of genocide and the deadening of artefacts. The article examines the embodied experience of enc…
Decolonising museum cultures: An artist and a geographer in collaboration
There is much published research and strategic rhetoric on decolonising the discipline, the academy, and institutions of social and cultural importance. However, very little literature examines the stepping stones in the process of materially challenging, changing, and decolonising institutions themselves. This paper emerges as an outline of axes or episodes of dialogue in a collaborative journey between the artist Rosanna Raymond and myself, sin…
Rancière and the re-distribution of the sensible: The artist Rosanna Raymond, dissensus and postcolonial sensibilities within the spaces of the museum
Through aesthetics we can articulate affective politics and demonstrate new ways of 'doing' progressive politics. This article explores the politics and practice of dissensus within the museum with artist Rosanna Raymond. The article argues that the museum space, when critiqued through a postcolonial perspective and artistic practice, can be a vehicle for political change. Using Ranciere's account of 'politics', the article outlines how a 'redist…
Anthropocenic culturecide: An Epitaph
Writing as a scholar who is firmly embedded in critical anti-racist and postcolonial practice in the world of cultural geography, my academic focus has been on the excluded, occluded, forgotten and
Narrating the postcolonial landscape: Archaeologies of race at Hadrian’s Wall
This paper presents research completed as part of an interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Tales of the Frontier’; both between the disciplines of geography and archaeology; and on the landscape narratives of Hadrian’s Wall. In particular, the paper unravels the currency of race‐geographies present in the collaboration, material interpretation and dissemination processes which included the curating of a public exhibition ‘An Archaeology of “Race”‘.…
Hadrian's Wall: Embodied archaeologies of the linear monument
The aim of this article is to consider the value of an embodied account of Hadrian's Wall. This heritage site has often been understood in predominantly imperial and military terms. While this is a crucial aspect of the historical meanings of the monument, there has been little focus on factors such as changing social role, socialities produced through its presence, and perceptions of the Wall evident in historical accounts. Drawing on theoretica…
Landscape, race and memory: Biographical mapping of the routes of British Asian landscape values
In this paper the migration routes of British Asian women living in London are examined. It is shown that British Asians connect with a myriad of landscapes abroad, including East Africa, India and Pakistan. These connections to past landscapes are mapped and considered here as valued environments of British Asian women in Britain. Through the mapping of their biographies, it is apparent that memories of other landscapes are embedded in environme…
Affective nationalisms and race
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Cultural geographies in practice, Intimate distance: Fantasy islands and English lakes
Disruptive Aesthetics: Revisiting the Burden of Representation in the Art of Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare
The publication of Kobena Mercer's article ‘Black Art and the Burden of Representation’ in 1990 stands as a significant and, to some extent, characteristic articulation of debates surrounding art
Landscape, race and memory: Biographical mapping of the routes of British Asian landscape values
In this paper the migration routes of British Asian women living in London are examined. It is shown that British Asians connect with a myriad of landscapes abroad, including East Africa, India and Pakistan. These connections to past landscapes are mapped and considered here as valued environments of British Asian women in Britain. Through the mapping of their biographies, it is apparent that memories of other landscapes are embedded in environme…
Matter(s) in social and cultural geography
Materializing post-colonial geographies: Examining the textural landscapes of migration in the South Asian home
Locating processes of identification: Studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home
Memory has been figured as an important process of placing and locating people and communities, both geographically and socially. Memory has also been significant in research on people who are not part of a formal record of history. This memory work includes a focus on black identity, especially in the work of Toni Morrison and Paul Gilroy. This paper seeks to examine the relevance of memory and re-memory for the social geographies of the South A…
A Journey Through the Material Geographies of Diaspora Cultures: Four Modes of Environmental Memory
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Mobility/Stability: British Asian Cultures of 'Landscape and Englishness
This paper examines the way in which the (British) Asian diaspora creates a territory of belonging and a cultural nationalism within the British landscape. New, British Asian cultures of Englishness are figured through the experience of mobility from 'other' landscapes to England. The expression of new hybrids of cultural nationalism based on cultures of Englishness and landscape are presented in the tangible forms of Asian women's drawings of 'l…
Fear in Paradise: The Affective Registers of the English Lake District Landscape Re-visited
During the summer of 2004, the artist Graham Lowe and I undertook a research project entitled Nurturing Ecologies within the Lake District National Park (LDNP)at Windermere. This landscape, considered as an icon of “Englishness,” is revisited through the embodied and sensory experiences of post-migration residents of Lancashire and Cumbria in an attempt to unravel multiple relationships embedded in visitor engagements with this landscape and thus…
Motion/Emotion: Picturing Translocal Landscapes in theNurturing EcologiesResearch Project
In the Nurturing Ecologies research project the aim is to consider the emotional value of the Lake District landscape to mobile, translocal communities living in Lancashire and Cumbria. The research attempts to capture in the visual form of a set of paintings, the sensory responses to the English Lake District that these translocal communities have. The Lake District is a site where historically a singular narrative of English sensibility has bee…
The geographies of cultural geography I: Identities, Bodies and Race
This report proposes that if cultural geography seeks to continue to be ‘world-class’ and ‘international’ in its outlook and in praxis it then needs to shift the interface between the academy and the ‘other’ both within it and without. There is, in particular, a need to make academic aspirations more international and to make practice within the academy more inclusive and politically orientated towards valuing scholarship and scholars at the edge…
Hadrian's Wall: Embodied archaeologies of the linear monument
The aim of this article is to consider the value of an embodied account of Hadrian's Wall. This heritage site has often been understood in predominantly imperial and military terms. While this is a crucial aspect of the historical meanings of the monument, there has been little focus on factors such as changing social role, socialities produced through its presence, and perceptions of the Wall evident in historical accounts. Drawing on theoretica…
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites
This paper picks up from extensive literatures that have addressed the relationship of heritage to national identity. Much work focuses upon the symbolic construction of the past through heritage institutions, but in so doing it tends to underplay the affective experience of heritage sites. In this paper we argue that it is the felt experience and the organisation of sensibilities towards heritage which are often as important, and that these have…
Narrating the postcolonial landscape: Archaeologies of race at Hadrian’s Wall
This paper presents research completed as part of an interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Tales of the Frontier’; both between the disciplines of geography and archaeology; and on the landscape narratives of Hadrian’s Wall. In particular, the paper unravels the currency of race‐geographies present in the collaboration, material interpretation and dissemination processes which included the curating of a public exhibition ‘An Archaeology of “Race”‘.…
Affect, Race, and Identities
Visceral, viscous theories of race after social constructivismOne of the opening moves of cultural studies has been to assert the primacy of culture in defining race and to argue that there is no biological foundation for racial differentiation; race is a myth, a social and cultural construction.This has been argued and the arguments for racial taxonomies imploded time and again through the work of scholars such as Hall (1990; 1996; 1997), Robert…
Archaeologies of Landscape: Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian’s Wall
This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian's Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These trajectories have their own material circulations in both solid and narrative forms. Here, we consider materiality through the cultures inspired by/of the Wall. Through the formulation of an interdisciplin…
The geographies of cultural geography II: Visual culture
Geography is a visual discipline and as such holds a complex relationship with visual culture. In the last two decades the collaborations between geographers and artists has grown exponentially. In an era where public impact and engagement are politically encouraged, there is a risk of collapsing the differences between visual culture as a discipline and the visual as an accessible mode of research communication. This paper reviews the ways in wh…
The geographies of cultural geography III: Material geographies, vibrant matters and risking surface geographies
The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of cultural geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field of material geographies and argues that scholars should aim to embrace the call of matter to think politically and beyond the surface. The review argues that there is a risk of doing ‘surface geographies’ where…
Postcolonial migrations
In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility.Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place.We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forg…
Visuality/Materiality: Images, Objects and Practices
The landscape of cultural geography: Ideologies lost
This piece reflects on the contemporary resonances, value and legacy of Cosgrove and Jackson's ( ) Area paper entitled ‘New directions in cultural geography’ (Area, 19, 95–101). It argues that much scholarship in today's cultural geography (its innovations and interventions), were inspired by Cosgrove and Jackson's call. These myriad collaborations and experimentation in formats include research outputs engaged in forms of poetry, art, theatre, d…
Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures
Anthropocenic culturecide: An Epitaph
Writing as a scholar who is firmly embedded in critical anti-racist and postcolonial practice in the world of cultural geography, my academic focus has been on the excluded, occluded, forgotten and
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