Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Primary Theme: Violence

Secondary Theme: Resistance

(2-0385) In the Aftermath: Landscapes of Violence, Mobilization, and the (Im)possibilities of Change

Landscapes, defined in their broadest sense, are an accumulation of cultural processes (Hirsch & O'Hanlon, 1995); forces that shape and form subjectivities, identities, and collectivities (Brown, 2005); and, contexts out of and against which things happen. There is an underlying temporality of past, present, and future embedded in these theorizations of the landscape (Ingold, 1993). As such, the landscape as repository, milieu, and mechanism is poised as an ideal analytic into thinking through the 'post-' or 'the after' of the phenomena, crises, conflicts, projects, and circumstances that necessitate strategies and practices of resistance, resilience, and adaptation. The papers in this panel explore how landscapes – articulations and intersections of the physical, political, social, affective, and developmental – are sites and mediums in which and through which people make sense of memories of the past in the face of violent ruptures and continuities as well as grapple with the future as they mobilize for change and look for answers in failed promises.

Organizer(s)

• Jameelah Morris

  PhD Student, Anthropology
  Stanford University

Presenter(s)

• Jameelah Morris

  PhD Student, Anthropology
  Stanford University

• Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly

  PhD Student
  University of California, Irvine

Organizer(s)

• Alisha Cherian

  PhD Student
  Stanford University

Presenter(s)

• Alisha Cherian

  PhD Student
  Stanford University

Chair(s)

• Benjamin Baker

  Stanford University

Presenter(s)

• Benjamin Baker

  Stanford University

Discussant(s)

• Zachary Caple

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of South Florida

Presentations:

• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

  Remember the Dead: Mobilizations of Historical Memory and Landscapes of Memorialization in Colombia
  Jameelah I. Morris – Stanford University
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

  Sharing the Future in Northern Ireland: How Political Actors Navigate Post-Conflict Landscapes
  Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly – University of California, Irvine
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

  Memories of a Landscape of Resistance: Confronting State-Sponsored Redevelopment in a Former Opposition Ward in Singapore
  Alisha Elizabeth Cherian – Stanford University
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

  When Helping Hurts: Contemporary Material Landscapes of Development and Futurity
  Benjamin Kyle Baker – Stanford University
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

  Discussion
• 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

  Discussion
  Zachary Caple – University of South Florida