Mabel Gergan
Biographic Data
| ID | 2348174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mabel Gergan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gergan |
| SIGNATURE | GERGAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Desirable Futures: Write Me a Letter
In this special issue, we propose the letter as a form with geographic potential. Building on prior work on letters in geography, Black feminism, and Indigenous studies, we draw on a collection of sixteen letters in the section to build a case for letters as time travel, anticolonial epistemology, feminist geographic method, and worldmaking praxis. We bring together letter writers who speak to their ancestors known and unknown, to future generati…
Youth and Decolonial Politics in a Relational Context
The lives of children and young people are conditioned in important ways by the imperial and colonial intimacies that have shaped our world. Yet, we know relatively little about how they encounter and comprehend the histories, legacies, and continuities of colonisation and racial capitalism, nor how this comes to shape their political orientations and practices. This article introduces a series of five papers that examine the everyday practices, …
The path you will choose won’t be a fairy tale’: Urban prefiguration and mountain Nostalgia in India’s Northwest Himalayas
Overlaid on a collage of street scenes, college students wrote: ‘Dear rest of India: Just so you know, I am a proud Indian no matter what my language is, how I look, what I wear, and where I am from’. Development narratives encourage parents to send young people from the Himalayas to major Indian cities for education. Students engage in political actions and play with their identity; simultaneously, racialized as ‘foreign’, they work out their re…
Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination
Scholars have argued that geologic proposals for the Anthropocene are entangled with collective imaginaries and geopolitical anxieties. In this article, we analyze three prominent tropes of American apocalyptic films (the "Great Deluge," the "Nuclear Catacalysm," and "the Population Bomb") and map them onto existing geological proposals for the Anthropocene. In staging this encounter, we illustrate how impending ecological disasters in American p…
The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India
Economic change has driven parents across the Indian Himalayan Region to send their children to major Indian cities for higher education. Himalayan students' urban experience and understanding of the nation is profoundly shaped by the movement between the Himalayan context and the foreign experience of Indian city life. We draw on interviews with students to discuss their experiences in the sometimes liberating and sometimes hostile cities of Ind…
Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination
Scholars have argued that geologic proposals for the Anthropocene are entangled with collective imaginaries and geopolitical anxieties. In this article, we analyze three prominent tropes of American apocalyptic films (the "Great Deluge," the "Nuclear Catacalysm," and "the Population Bomb") and map them onto existing geological proposals for the Anthropocene. In staging this encounter, we illustrate how impending ecological disasters in American p…
The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India
Economic change has driven parents across the Indian Himalayan Region to send their children to major Indian cities for higher education. Himalayan students' urban experience and understanding of the nation is profoundly shaped by the movement between the Himalayan context and the foreign experience of Indian city life. We draw on interviews with students to discuss their experiences in the sometimes liberating and sometimes hostile cities of Ind…
The path you will choose won’t be a fairy tale’: Urban prefiguration and mountain Nostalgia in India’s Northwest Himalayas
Overlaid on a collage of street scenes, college students wrote: ‘Dear rest of India: Just so you know, I am a proud Indian no matter what my language is, how I look, what I wear, and where I am from’. Development narratives encourage parents to send young people from the Himalayas to major Indian cities for education. Students engage in political actions and play with their identity; simultaneously, racialized as ‘foreign’, they work out their re…
Desirable Futures: Write Me a Letter
In this special issue, we propose the letter as a form with geographic potential. Building on prior work on letters in geography, Black feminism, and Indigenous studies, we draw on a collection of sixteen letters in the section to build a case for letters as time travel, anticolonial epistemology, feminist geographic method, and worldmaking praxis. We bring together letter writers who speak to their ancestors known and unknown, to future generati…
Youth and Decolonial Politics in a Relational Context
The lives of children and young people are conditioned in important ways by the imperial and colonial intimacies that have shaped our world. Yet, we know relatively little about how they encounter and comprehend the histories, legacies, and continuities of colonisation and racial capitalism, nor how this comes to shape their political orientations and practices. This article introduces a series of five papers that examine the everyday practices, …
The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India
Economic change has driven parents across the Indian Himalayan Region to send their children to major Indian cities for higher education. Himalayan students' urban experience and understanding of the nation is profoundly shaped by the movement between the Himalayan context and the foreign experience of Indian city life. We draw on interviews with students to discuss their experiences in the sometimes liberating and sometimes hostile cities of Ind…
The path you will choose won’t be a fairy tale’: Urban prefiguration and mountain Nostalgia in India’s Northwest Himalayas
Overlaid on a collage of street scenes, college students wrote: ‘Dear rest of India: Just so you know, I am a proud Indian no matter what my language is, how I look, what I wear, and where I am from’. Development narratives encourage parents to send young people from the Himalayas to major Indian cities for education. Students engage in political actions and play with their identity; simultaneously, racialized as ‘foreign’, they work out their re…
Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination
Scholars have argued that geologic proposals for the Anthropocene are entangled with collective imaginaries and geopolitical anxieties. In this article, we analyze three prominent tropes of American apocalyptic films (the "Great Deluge," the "Nuclear Catacalysm," and "the Population Bomb") and map them onto existing geological proposals for the Anthropocene. In staging this encounter, we illustrate how impending ecological disasters in American p…
Youth and Decolonial Politics in a Relational Context
The lives of children and young people are conditioned in important ways by the imperial and colonial intimacies that have shaped our world. Yet, we know relatively little about how they encounter and comprehend the histories, legacies, and continuities of colonisation and racial capitalism, nor how this comes to shape their political orientations and practices. This article introduces a series of five papers that examine the everyday practices, …
Desirable Futures: Write Me a Letter
In this special issue, we propose the letter as a form with geographic potential. Building on prior work on letters in geography, Black feminism, and Indigenous studies, we draw on a collection of sixteen letters in the section to build a case for letters as time travel, anticolonial epistemology, feminist geographic method, and worldmaking praxis. We bring together letter writers who speak to their ancestors known and unknown, to future generati…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)