"Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post-Anthropocene", Eds. LaToya E. Eaves, Heidi J. Nast, Alex G. Papadopoulos. Springer Nature Singapore / Palgrave, 12th June 2024 - 562 pp
Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the ‘Black Outdoors’, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the ‘Anthropocene’. The chapters collectively point to the ontological-epistemological contradictions involved in forging liberatory spatial futures. Bringing new spatial imaginaries to bear in and outside geography, the book refuses the strictures of the ‘cenic’, entertaining difference as world-making.
About the Editors:
LaToya E. Eaves, PhD, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a scholar of Black geographies. Her research emphasizes questions of power, non-essentialism and embodiment, centering Blackness, gender, Black feminism, and the U.S. South.
Heidi J. Nast, PhD, Professor of International Studies, DePaul University, is interested in how difference evolutionarily, culturally, and ontologically unfolds and operates across worlds and psyches, the power that difference serves, and the difference that power makes.
Alex G. Papadopoulos, PhD, Professor of Geography, DePaul University. An urban and political geographer, his specialties range from geopolitics and applied diplomacy, to heritage studies, regional analysis, and LGBTIQ+ studies. He is member of the Steeering Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Research Fellow of the Laboratory for Geocultural Analyses (GeoLab), both of the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.