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SUMMARY:The Annual Maya K. Peterson Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:“Colonizing Water: Empire\, Commodification\, and Appropriation in Africa”\nMatthew Bender\, Professor of History\, The College of New Jersey\nFriday\, May 8\, 2:30-4:00pm; Alumni Room @ UCSC’s University Center \nIn early 2018\, the city of Cape Town nearly ran out of water. South Africa’s “Mother City\,” renowned for its cosmopolitan population and natural beauty\, faced the prospect of a “Day Zero\,” when it would be forced to close its taps and force millions to queue for water rations. Across much of the continent\, though\, water scarcity is an everyday reality\, with nearly 1 in 3 people lacking access to sufficient drinking water. How did this become the case? This talk explores the history of water on the African continent\, using a historical lens to understand the present-day water crisis. It shows how these resources came to be “colonized” through the mechanisms of imperialism in Africa. European colonial actors in the 19th and 20th centuries attempted to transform the ownership\, management\, and meaning of water with the aim of harnessing its powers to advance their objectives. In doing so\, they created deep seeded inequities and underdevelopment that has persisted in the decades since African colonies gained their independence. This historical analysis shows that many of the present-day obstacles to providing clean\, safe water stem from legacies of colonial rule. Yet it also shows the many ways in which everyday Africans proved resilient\, finding ways to thrive despite the odds. \nMatthew Bender is Professor of History at The College of New Jersey. His research focuses on modern African social and cultural history\, with interest in the environment\, natural resources\, and agriculture. A leading scholar in water history\, he has authored numerous articles\, essays\, and chapters as well as a book entitled Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro (Ohio University Press\, 2019). \nThis event is made possible by the generous support of the Maya K. Peterson Memorial Endowment.
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SUMMARY:Haunting Interruptions: Race\, Infrastructural Violence\, and Spatial Memory in Ferguson\, Missouri
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 13th from 12:00-1:15pm\, join the Sociology Department together with the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES)\, The Black Geographies Lab\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and History in the Rachel Carson College Red Room\, to welcome speaker Rashad Timmons (UC PPFP) for a discussion on Race\, Infrastructural Violence\, and Spatial Memory in Ferguson\, Missouri moderated by Camilla Hawthorne (UC Santa Cruz). \nThis presentation engages the racial politics of infrastructural violence and spatial memory in Ferguson\, Missouri—the historically-white suburb of St. Louis and site of the tragic police killing of Black\, 18-year-old Michael Brown\, Jr. in August 2014. It critically examines the use of blockades\, space-based protests\, and other forms of infrastructural disruption by Black subjects in Ferguson before and after Michael Brown Jr.’s execution\, paying specific attention to the mnemonic work these practices perform. It argues that Black subjects in Ferguson deploy these tactics of spatial intervention not only to claim space in Ferguson’s suburban landscape but to haunt its collective memory. These disruptive practices—what I call “haunting interruptions”—disturb or interfere with the normative function of infrastructures such as roads and highways to reveal\, indict\, and account for the historical racist logics underlying (sub)urban life. The presentation grounds haunting interruptions in an examination of historical and contemporary protests in the notorious apartment complex where Michael Brown Jr. perished and finds that Black subjects use protest and blockage as spatial tactics not simply to force state\, institutional\, or corporate entities to act but to surface the memory of persistent racial suffering that exceeds reparation and is acutely sedimented in the suburban geography. \nRashad Arman Timmons (he/him) is a community builder\, musician\, writer\, scholar\, and educator from Detroit\, Michigan\, the ancestral and present homelands of the Anishinaabeg. The proud son of factory workers\, he teaches and writes broadly about race\, urban infrastructure\, mobility\, and power in the midwestern United States\, es Black people’s longstanding use of the built environment to imagine a freer and more just world. Rashad earned his Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he researched the violent and racist history of infrastructural development (e.g.\, railways\, roads\, telecommunications) and policing in Ferguson\, Missouri. Rashad is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, where he is writing a book about the plunder and persistence of Black geographies in Ferguson. \nAlongside his scholarly work\, Rashad serves and organizes with the Michael Brown Sr. Chosen for Change Organization to uplift the life and legacy of Michael “Mike Mike” Brown Jr. In this role\, Rashad leads public history and community engagement projects dedicated to uncovering and preserving Black history in Ferguson and St. Louis. He also writes grants to support the Brown family’s healing and racial justice efforts throughout the St.  Louis metropolitan area. As lead grant writer\, Rashad has secured more than a half a million dollars of direct funding to the family’s non-profit organization. \nRashad currently lives in Oakland\, California—the unceded lands of the Lisjan Ohlone—where he delivers political education to Bay Area youth and supports organizations working to end police terrorism in the U.S. and abroad. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES) together with The Black Geographies Lab\, the Sociology Department\, Critical Race and Ethic Studies\, and History.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/haunting-interruptions-race-infrastructural-violence-and-spatial-memory-in-ferguson-missouri/
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