Quantum Black creative geographies

Embodiment, coherence and transcendence in a time of climate crisis

Bibliographic Data

ID20153017
AuthorsP Noxolo (0000-0003-3051-1576, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham Birmingham UK, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume46
Issue1
Pages6-17
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjtg.12531
OpenAlexW4391880377
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited44

This paper brings together three parallel strands of work—Black Geographies, geographies of Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies. The paper begins by considering static linear spacetimes as colonial spacetimes, and draws on Michelle Wright's critique of Middle Passage epistemologies, from Black Studies, to elaborate on this. It then moves through a number of ways in which, over the last couple of decades, I have drawn together insights from Wilson Harris and Karen Barad to explore how quantum mechanics can facilitate a conversation about uncertainty, connectedness, entanglement and the liveliness of always already climate‐changed landscapes in relation to Black embodiment. In pushing briefly into string theory, the paper ends with the possibility of connecting spirituality with materialities, to push towards more politically attuned forms of emancipation

Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Epistemology · Geography · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Sociology · Transcendence (philosophy) · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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