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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Dissertation Proposal, Research Problem/Questions: 1) How and to what extend have the recent disasters impacted the landscape of New Orleans? - culturally - sociospatially 2) How and to what extend has the post-disaster landscape of New Orleans affected spatial imaginaries of race for Black folks? 3) Whether and to what extent has the post-disaster landscape impacted Black cultural expressions What is important in this statement? What else needs to be said? I need to get more specific...who am I talking to/about? Where am I talking about? What are the areas of concentration/sub-fields that provide the discourse? Review of Literature (concentrations) Urban Geography - racialized spaces - urban landscapes - urban disasters Cultural Geography - geographies of race - spatial imaginares - construction of landscape - visual arts/creative narratives Feminist Political Geography - Black feminist thought - situated knowledges/embodied experiences - cultural violences of the State - sociospatial violences of the State - resilience/protest????, Review of Literature (concentrations) Urban Geography - racialized spaces - urban landscapes - urban disasters Cultural Geography - geographies of race - spatial imaginares - construction of landscape - visual arts/creative narratives Feminist Political Geography - Black feminist thought - situated knowledges/embodied experiences - cultural violences of the State - sociospatial violences of the State - resilience/protest???? Frames the discourse for... Key Issues What is the relationship between 'race,' 'landscape,' and 'spatial imaginary' in post-disaster New Orleans? Race & Space - The social construction of race and space are inextricably linked and mutally constituted - Social vulnerabiity (race) + Environmental Risk (space) = DISASTER - Increased creativity in the wake of crisis/disaster Cutural Landscape - What is landscape; how is it constructed? - What is the relationship between cultural and material landscapes? - In what ways in the post-disaster landscape racialized? *Hypervisualization ~ Tourism industry + appropriation of Black culture/spaces ~ Demolition of housing, increase in housing costs ~ Political corruption/struggles/re-regulations ~ Resilience/resistance ~ Recovery/redevelopment initiatives Spatial Imaginary - Conceptualization of 'spatial imaginary' *why is this important *what shapes it *what does it look like *how do we know it; how can it be accessed *what does 'race' tell us about it *critiques - I propose that shifts to the material and cultural landscape are manifest in the spatial imaginaries of marginalized groups who are more sensitive to sociospatial changes., Key Issues What is the relationship between 'race,' 'landscape,' and 'spatial imaginary' in post-disaster New Orleans? Race & Space - The social construction of race and space are inextricably linked and mutally constituted - Social vulnerabiity (race) + Environmental Risk (space) = DISASTER - Increased creativity in the wake of crisis/disaster Cutural Landscape - What is landscape; how is it constructed? - What is the relationship between cultural and material landscapes? - In what ways in the post-disaster landscape racialized? *Hypervisualization ~ Tourism industry + appropriation of Black culture/spaces ~ Demolition of housing, increase in housing costs ~ Political corruption/struggles/re-regulations ~ Resilience/resistance ~ Recovery/redevelopment initiatives Spatial Imaginary - Conceptualization of 'spatial imaginary' *why is this important *what shapes it *what does it look like *how do we know it; how can it be accessed *what does 'race' tell us about it *critiques - I propose that shifts to the material and cultural landscape are manifest in the spatial imaginaries of marginalized groups who are more sensitive to sociospatial changes. ???? Research Methodology - Qualitative - Discourse analysis - Visual methodologies - ???, Research Problem/Questions: 1) How and to what extend have the recent disasters impacted the landscape of New Orleans? - culturally - sociospatially 2) How and to what extend has the post-disaster landscape of New Orleans affected spatial imaginaries of race for Black folks? 3) Whether and to what extent has the post-disaster landscape impacted Black cultural expressions How are you thinking about this? From what perspective are you approaching this study? Epistemological Approaches - Post-structuralism - Social constructivism - Feminism *There is more than one way of constructing, imagining, and perceiving space (McKittrick 2006) * Race is both a social construct & analytical category (Gilmore 2002) * Knowledge is situated (Haraway 1988)