Feminist geographic commonsense suggests that power shapes knowledge production, prompting the long-standing reflexive turn. Yet, often such reflexivity fixes racial and elides more nuanced operations of difference – moves feminist scholars have, in fact, long problematized. To counter this, we revisit Kobayashi's (1994) ‘Coloring Field’ [‘Coloring Field: Gender, “Race”, Politics Fieldwork,’ Professional Geographer 46 (1): 73–90]. Twenty years on, grounded our fieldwork South Sudan Honduras,...

In this article, we highlight the inherent spatialities of intersectionality and its pivotal importance for feminist geographic thought. Intersectionality was, at inception, already a deeply spatial theoretical concept, process epistemology, particularly when read through careful serious engagement with Black Feminist Thought writings radical women color. We do so here, revisiting Cooper, Crenshaw, Collins other key scholars to demonstrate that interlocking violence racism, patriarchy,...

Abstract In this paper I rethink land grabbing in Latin America by decentering the rhetoric of novelty and tendency to focus on large‐scale transactions. To do this, attend longevity racial thinking bound up everyday forms control. look at ways race is salient making territorial arrangements. Drawing my own research Honduras Panama, situate relation a range scholarly insights that disclose how early postcolonial dichotomy “civilization” “savagery”, its inherently whitening logics, re‐appear...

In Latin America, indigenous and Afro-descendant land movements find traction in participatory mapping projects. The success of these projects is measured a variety ways: from the abatement conflicts to employment maps winning state-sanctioned ownership "rights." Although worthy celebration, such "countermapping" (Peluso Citation1995), often exemplified by practice binding particular culture (or ethnicity) space, might arouse contradictory outcomes. Drawing ethnographic interviews with...

Abstract Drawing inspiration from popular efforts to connect a wide array of political struggles, this symposium examines the ways that racial‐colonial politics unfold through nature and environmental practices linking past, present, future across United States Canada. By way introduction, we ask: What does it mean do ecologies race in Canada States? For us response cannot be additive—merely grafting attention racial/colonial onto established scholarly conventions. Instead, aim for deeper...

On the Honduran North Coast, Afro-indigenous Garifuna struggle to maintain access and control of their ancestral lands. Their concerns are due in part state’s long-standing goal modernizing Coast providing an attractive site for foreign investment land tourism. The commitment improving country’s development profile by opening coastal ownership foreigners often overlooks international constitutional recognition communal forms tenure. Ethnographic participant observation community Tornabé, a...

In 2015, the United Nations set in motion International Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024). While this mandate provides much to celebrate, its reliance on universal and human rights narratives collides against reality a persistent inferiorization Afro-descendant communities as less-than-human. The paradoxical nature discourses notwithstanding, women (ADW) leaders Latin America embrace opportunity provided by UN Decade, rethink inclusion development practice. I draw insight...

The Honduran Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve has become a place of struggle over natural resources. This paper examines land contest between the Miskito Indians and Garifuna, an indigenous group Afro-indigenous respectively. area in question is Lasa Pulan, one square kilometer forest farmland, historically shared by both Garifuna collectives. Through discursive analysis, this traces contemporary discourse practice that these actors employ to justify exclusive claims Pulan. Such are structured...

Abstract In this Afterword, I reflect on the themes of race and coloniality in political ecology highlighted by Symposium. draw upon place conversation scholarly work Latin America to demonstrate how, notwithstanding disparate social‐historical contexts, Indigenous Black communities encounter strikingly similar struggles for land territorial control across Americas. build my comments from a fusion postcolonial, decolonial black feminist thinking bolster importance intimate inseparable...

What might it mean to “unsettle” our disciplinary understanding of race, nature, and the environment? In this introduction 2023 Special Issue Annals American Association Geographers—focused on Race, Nature, Environment—we reflect meaning practice unsettling in a time climate crisis, toxic legacies, uneven development, state violence, mass extinctions, carceral logics, racial injustices that shape—and are shaped by—the (re)production nature. We note ascendancy critical scholarship race...

This article examines the multiple ways race and racialized processes are embedded in Miskito Indian ladino colono land struggles Honduras. In context of more than 30 years state refusals to formalize boundaries ancestral territories, this interrogates which accommodates encroachments inside space. State challenges customary claims echo early post-colonial narratives integration under Civilization Program. Drawing from ethnographic accounts, illuminates how meanings practices intertwined way...

Abstract We are witnessing a proliferation of new critical scholarship on the manifold forms extractivism. Yet, there risks associated with extraction being rendered broad metaphor for innumerable removal and value‐making through exploitation misappropriation. Theorising within decolonial Black feminisms, we respond to metaphorization by (re)asserting need persistent analysis material embodied effects consequences extractivisms. That is, specific processes, logics, ideologies, relations...

Geographers and political ecologists are paying increased attention to the ways in which conservation policies disrupt indigenous customary tenure arrangements. However, much less is given particular protected area management shapes natural resource access for women. With this mind, article examines how a recently proposed state land project Honduras, Catastro y Regularización, requires that Miskito residents individuate collective family lands interests of 'sustainable development'...

In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that situate it in place, and are attentive spatial, temporal, relational, overlapping margins centers. Second, call for more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is lens onto site reproduction of spatial oppression resistance. Last, reckoning with whiteness, sustained...

This paper draws from the insights of feminist political ecology and ethnographic fieldwork in coastal Miskito communities Honduran Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve. In this paper, I highlight how matriarchal land organization is challenged by both state men. Through a reflection multi-scaled narratives, argue that women "work" to counter entrenched patriarchal assumptions racialized development practices deny women's labor agriculture undermine their means "to mother."

There have long been discussions about the need for an alternative publishing model academic research. This has made clear by September 2017 scandal involving Third World Quarterly. The editor’s deeply problematic decision to publish essay arguing in favor of colonialism was likely meant as click-bate drive clicks and citations. But we should not lose sight fact that this latest is only one recent manifestation a long-simmering problem periodically commanded significant attention literature,...

Abstract. On the Panamanian Caribbean coast and Bocas del Toro Archipelago, foreign direct investment via residential tourism development drives land displacement. As insecurities grow, particularly for local Indigenous Afro-Panamanian peoples, ongoing dispossession is not simply about land, but rather simultaneously people their bodies. In Bocas, enclosures are infused with imaginaries, which take granted Black female servitude landlessness. Such imaginaries seemingly lock economically...