Naama Blatman
Funding period: 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
Type of funding:
Other Grants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69752/E5W8-0A84
Award Number: USF-EVT-240901
Infrastructural repair and processes of abolition are two of the most pressing areas of research within urban geography today, yet more can be done to bring them together. This event will foster dialogue between academics – notably including multiple USF alumni and awardees – and community organisers by centring their collective commitments to place-making and the valorisation of racialised lives in cities. Under the banner of ‘reparative urban infrastructure’, we will draw stronger connections between abolition, repair, and reparations to advance conversations about i) existing, real-world practices contributing to the disruption of oppressive systems-in-place, ii) the repair of historical harm through infrastructural interventions, and iii) the prefiguration of more just futures that take Black and Indigenous spatial praxis seriously.
You can read more about these activities on the USF blog.
This grant was awarded to support organisation of the workshop by Dr Naama Blatman.