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Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56301128057205,"sku":"9781478010005","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478010005.jpg?v=1793083657"},{"product_id":"9781517917067","title":"Heartbreak and Other Geographies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA uniquely structured collection of essays from one of today's most esteemed scholars of black studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thoughtfully curated selection of texts by preeminent black feminist scholar Katherine McKittrick, \u003ci\u003eHeartbreak and Other Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the remarkable depth of inquiry she has generated over twenty years. Edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne, this collection highlights McKittrick's enduring commitment to ideas around radical placemaking and the creative articulations of and within the black diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcKittrick's work is marked by a recurring engagement with anticolonialism, practices of liberation, and radical methodologies of black cultural production. Through discussions of figures such as Toni Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Édouard Glissant, Paul Gilroy, Nina Simone, and Sylvia Wynter, the writing in \u003ci\u003eHeartbreak and Other Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e spans the author's investigations into scientific method, liberal modernity, the cycles that perpetuate racial violence, and the poetics and sonics of black livingness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together recent texts, influential pieces, and lesser-known essays, the unconventional format of \u003ci\u003eHeartbreak and Other Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e includes an introductory conversation with McKittrick as well as a series of creative interludes from the editors throughout the book. 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Katherine McKittrick traces the geographies of black women across the diaspora, arguing that the spaces they inhabit are marked by legacies of violence and slavery while also being sites of unacknowledged political power. Making a forceful claim, she identifies rich opportunities within black geographies for social and cultural change and rebellion. With a new foreword by Simone Browne and comments from Sylvia Wynter on the original edition as an afterword, this twentieth-anniversary edition celebrates \u003ci\u003eDemonic Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e and its ongoing influence on twenty-first century geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484333547893,"sku":"9781517921415","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781517921415.jpg?v=1786266394"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-katherine-mckittrick.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}