Subaltern geographies

Geographical knowledge and postcolonial strategy

Bibliographic Data

ID5778912
AuthorsTariq Jazeel (0000-0002-1018-6123, Department of Geography University College London London UK, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume35
Issue1
Pages88-103
Publication date2014-03-01
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.12053
OpenAlexW1551209356
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited52

In recent years a small but rich geographical literature has engaged with S ubaltern S tudies to explore the geographical and geopolitical imaginations of subaltern subjects and groups. Such writings have deployed subalternity to designate a substantive subject or group marginalized in the face of power. Departing from this, the paper instead treats subalternity more figuratively, as a word able to evoke spatialities occluded by the E uro- A merican power that haunts disciplinary geography. The paper argues that using subalternity like this holds the potential to pluralize geographical interventions, particularly in the light of the discipline's materialist turns since the late 1990s. To make this argument, the paper engages G ayatri S pivak's seminal critique of the Subaltern Studies collective, suggesting how this might speak productively to a postcolonial geographical methodology. It demonstrates the potential of this methodology by weaving it through a broader attempt to critically engage the politics of nature and environment in S ri L anka

Argument (complex analysis · Discipline · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Subaltern · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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