Tag: Geography
Another Anonymous Geographer on anti-Jewish racism in Geography
On Wednesday 8th May 2024, Anonymous Geographer 2 emerged on the e-list of the critical geography academic forum (Crit-Geog-Forum) to, following Anonymous Geographer, call out anti-Jewish racism in the discipline. Their words (in full below) are, like those of Anonymous Geographer, insightful, measured, and very much worthy of engagement. All too often the accusation of […]
‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’ in the wake of the 7th October (BISA Seminar)
This is a recording of the presentation which I gave to the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (BISA) on 12th December 2023.
Geography, antisemitism and Zionism
Reference: Camila Bassi (2023) Geography, antisemitism and Zionism, Geography, 108:3, 130-133, DOI: 10.1080/00167487.2023.2260220
Geographical: How geography matters in understanding the politics of lingering antisemitism
See here for my Geographical magazine piece.
Can biophilia save humanity and planet Earth?
Image from Wikimedia Commons: School strike for climate, Sydney, 2019.
The Geography of Vaccine Politics
Image from Wikimedia Commons: The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!—vide. the Publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society, 1802 “In this cartoon, the British satirist James Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras, showing cowpox vaccine being administered to frightened young women, and cows emerging from different parts of people’s bodies. The cartoon […]
The Geographical Fate of Pandemics
Image from Wikimedia Commons: The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio’s Decameron.
David Miller and How Antisemitism Kills Geography
Sociologist David Miller reads onto the surface and off the surface a reflection of the surface. He fails to understand the surface as mere appearance of a dynamic and complex whole. Miller reads off the surface a world devoid of geography – a fluid geography of specific material realities and human consciousnesses and agencies. Through […]
Paul Gilroy: from raciology to planetary humanism
“when the water is lapping up the road, I don’t know that people are going to be fretting so much about their whiteness. Maybe they will. Maybe the appeal of a racial war has its own psychic magnetism for some folk. But I would like to think that in the teeth of the emergency, if […]
Anaemic On A Bike 