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</span></b><span style="color:black">Ricardo Barbosa, Jr. <ribarbosajr@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 9:38</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">AM<br>
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<b>Cc: </b>Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca <estevan.coca@unifal-mg.edu.br>, gbarrera@berkeley.edu <gbarrera@berkeley.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[ESS Forum] AAG 2025 - Hybrid Paper Session: Digital geographies of rural and environmental archives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An invitation for a Hybrid Paper Session I am co-organizing for the American Association of Geographers 2025 Annual Meeting <a href="https://www.aag.org/events/aag2025/">https://www.aag.org/events/aag2025/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digital geographies of rural and environmental archives</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ricardo Barbosa, Jr.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PhD Student, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, United States</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:RiBarbosa@clarku.edu">RiBarbosa@clarku.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Estevan Coca</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences Institute, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:estevan.coca@unifal-mg.edu.br">estevan.coca@unifal-mg.edu.br</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, United States</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:gbarrera@berkeley.edu">gbarrera@berkeley.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digitizing analog archives has been deemed essential for preservation (Kominko, 2015). However, archives have served to impose a particular form of memory
– often written and institutional – to certain territories while erasing the histories of populations such as Indigenous, Black, and campesino communities (e.g., Percel, 2024), who organize and tell their stories in their own terms. The growing volume of materials
available through digital archives – such as documents, statistics, languages, and maps – offers remote access to curated collections from around the world (Jardine & Drage, 2019). This vast pool of digital sources not only opens new possibilities for recombination
and interpretation (e.g., Bressey, 2020) but also positions digital archives as powerful sites of authority (Hodder & Beckingham, 2022).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Geography has examined the politics of digitizing archives for some time (Withers, 2002), with evolving digital technologies reproducing already existing
and introducing new power dynamics (Zaagsma, 2023). Critical scholarship highlights the risks of capture, assetization, geo/biopiracy, erasure, misrepresentation, and weaponization (Wainwright, 2013; Koopman, 2016) pointing out how platforms and algorithms
can shape access and interpretation in unchecked ways (Ringel & Ribak, 2024). Yet, archiving can also be a form of resistance, central to emancipatory struggles. Rural communities across the Global North and South use archives to challenge dominant narratives,
leveraging local knowledge to amplify marginalized voices in challenging injustices (Beel et al., 2015; Barbosa Jr & Roriz, 2021).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thus, lies the opportunity to engage critically with digital archives, recognizing them not as neutral repositories of facts but rather as products of
specific social, political, and technological contexts. For this reason, we set out to navigate the complexities of digital archives through digital geography scholarship with a thematic focus on the countryside and environment, inviting critical agrarian
studies and political ecology scholars to reflect on the process of digitalizing archives. To encourage critical empirical and conceptual reflections on the power dynamics that shape spaces and politics through digital archives, we invite researchers, activists,
artists, and the broader public to engage with themes that include, but are not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Datafication;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Data extractivism, data sovereignty, and data activism;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Environmental data infrastructures;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Land and cadastral archiving;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Archiving from below; and</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- AI and data visibility for rural communities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This session invites papers that present research on digital geographies, critical agrarian studies, and the political ecology of archives. Contributions that go beyond
traditional academic approaches, such as activist or artistic interventions, are also encouraged. While participation is open to all, we particularly welcome scholars from the Global South. The session will be held in a hybrid format, accommodating both in-person
and online presentations to ensure access for those unable to travel to the US. If you are interested in participating, please contact Ricardo Barbosa Jr.
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(<a href="mailto:RiBarbosa@clarku.edu">RiBarbosa@clarku.edu</a>), Dr. Estevan Coca (<a href="mailto:estevan.coca@unifal-mg.edu.br">estevan.coca@unifal-mg.edu.br</a>), and Dr. Gerónimo Barrera de
la Torre (<a href="mailto:gbarrera@berkeley.edu">gbarrera@berkeley.edu</a>). </span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by October 30th.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">References</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Barbosa Jr, R., & Roriz, J. (2021).
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The subversive practice of counting bodies: Documenting violence and conflict in rural Brazil.
<i>Journal of Agrarian Change</i>, <i>21</i>(4), 870–886. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12416">
https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12416</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beel, D., Wallace, C., Webster, G., & Nguyen, H. (2015). The Geographies of Community History Digital Archives in Rural Scotland.
<i>Scottish Geographical Journal</i>, <i>131</i>(3–4), 201–211. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2014.980839">
https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2014.980839</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bressey, C. (2020). Surfacing black and brown bodies in the digital archive: Domestic workers in late nineteenth-century Australia.
<i>Journal of Historical Geography</i>, <i>70</i>, 1–11. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.07.001">
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.07.001</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hodder, J., & Beckingham, D. (2022). Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies.
<i>Progress in Human Geography</i>, <i>46</i>(6), 1298–1310. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221103603">
https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221103603</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jardine, B., & Drage, M. (2019). The total archive: Data, subjectivity, universality.
<i>History of the Human Sciences</i>, <i>31</i>(5), 3–22. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118820806">
https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118820806</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kominko, M. (Ed.). (2015). <i>From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme</i>. Open Book Publishers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Koopman, S. (2016). Beware: Your Research May Be Weaponized.
<i>Annals of the American Association of Geographers</i>, <i>106</i>(3), 530–535.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1145511">https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1145511</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Percel, J. (2024). Hauntings of Absence and Erasure: Black Archival Practices of Property Data.
<i>Antipode</i>, <i>56</i>(6), 2368–2386. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13067">
https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13067</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ringel, S., & Ribak, R. (2024). Platformizing the Past: The Social Media Logic of Archival Digitization.
<i>Social Media + Society</i>, <i>10</i>(1), 20563051241228596. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228596">
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228596</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wainwright, J. (2013). <i>Geopiracy: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought</i>. Palgrave Macmillan.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Withers, C. W. J. (2002). Constructing “The Geographical Archive.”
<i>Area</i>, <i>34</i>(3), 303–311.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Zaagsma, G. (2023). Digital History and the Politics of Digitization.
<i>Digital Scholarship in the Humanities</i>, <i>38</i>(2), 830–851. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac050">
https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac050</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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