Of Cultural Geographies and Postcolonial Lives

About the lecture

This lecture focuses on the relationships between geography, postcolonialism and culture. It outlines the ways that these three concerns have been centrally placed within a body of scholarship that has ranged from analysing the spatial politics of Sri Lankan diaspora formations as well as diasporic imaginative literature, the environmental aesthetics of South Asian tropical and modernist architecture, and most lately the recent history of British Asian dance music. In so doing, the lecture evokes the importance of thinking through colonial and postcolonial lives, their routed spatialities and worldly orientations, as one way for geography and geographers to engage with the legacies of imperialism in everyday life.

About the speaker

Tariq Jazeel is Professor of Human Geography, co-Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at UCL, and founding co-Director of UCL’s Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. His research is broadly positioned at the intersection of postcolonial theory, critical human geography, and South Asian Studies. He is the author of Postcolonialism (2019) and Sacred Modernity (2013), and co-editor of Subaltern Geographies (2019, with Stephen Legg) and Spatializing Politics (2013, with Cathrine Brun). Tariq is currently working on a book on the recent history of British-Asian dance music.