Walking the stories of colonial ghosts
A method of/against the geographically mundane
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21747293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan Smith (0000-0002-0105-0857, James Cook University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-108 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-5170 • E-ISSN: 2156-8154 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15505170.2022.2098208 |
| OpenAlex | W4288700693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
The worlds we inhabit tell stories, stitched into the material and symbolic representations of the past that comes to define the features of our places. These stories are never neutral, anchored as they are in the intentional (re)presentation of a racialized white, masculine, and settler story as “our” story. Indeed, space, as an ostensibly neutral platform for storytelling, is called into service of settler-state anxieties to write itself into every (spatial) corner of our lives. This paper takes up this issue by theorizing how the street naming practices of settler communities write into everyday life a settler collective memory that, as a consequence, both shapes space into (settler) place and powerfully intervenes in individual (student) geographic consciousness. By way of vignettes woven throughout theoretical considerations as examples of everyday encounters, I unpack what it means to think of the language of invaded place with greater critical intention as an example of how walking through space can become a pedagogical method, with a focus on detailing what it might mean to support learner engagement with the names that make their communities coherent and media of normalized colonial memory
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Geography · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History
The White Possessive
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Voices of Collective Remembering
A Curriculum of Migrant Home
Materialised Identities
Place Matters
Making scents of the landscape
Critical Toponymies
Critical Youth Studies Reader
Understanding Colonialism and Settler Colonialism as Distinct Formations
Creating a new discipline of memory studies
The unanchored past
Placial analysis of events
What do street names tell us? The ‘city-text’ as socio-cultural data
Expulsion, exodus and exile in white Australian historical mythology
Walking in the city
Buried Alive
The classroom as “toponymic workspace”
Salutary Lessons
Engaging Geography at Every Street Corner
Where are We? Critical Race Theory in Education 20 Years Later
The Color of Supremacy
Decolonizing the map? Toponymic politics and the rescaling of the Salish Sea
The Aloha State
Street names and the scaling of memory
Walking as Method
From an urban country to urbanCountry
Critical race theory
A relational approach to walking
Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless Position of Aboriginal Peoples
Nervous Landscapes
Introducing
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |