An academic paper on 'quantum Black creative geographies'

I found an interesting paper on something I’d never heard of: quantum Black creative geographies. Here’s the abstract:

This paper brings together three parallel strands of work—Black Geographies, geographies of Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies. The paper begins by considering static linear spacetimes as colonial spacetimes, and draws on Michelle Wright’s critique of Middle Passage epistemologies, from Black Studies, to elaborate on this. It then moves through a number of ways in which, over the last couple of decades, I have drawn together insights from Wilson Harris and Karen Barad to explore how quantum mechanics can facilitate a conversation about uncertainty, connectedness, entanglement and the liveliness of always already climate‐changed landscapes in relation to Black embodiment. In pushing briefly into string theory, the paper ends with the possibility of connecting spirituality with materialities, to push towards more politically attuned forms of emancipation.

Patricia Noxolo

Quantum geography, as the name suggests, is a collaboration between quantum mechanics and geography where the former is used to explain geographic phenomena that don’t easily fit into standard data models. Adding elements of Black geographies into the mix and you get a fascinating study into worlds you might not have known even existed—or why.

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