Subaltern Geographies

Subaltern Geographies stands as the inaugural comprehensiveexploration into the intersection of subaltern studies’ historicalbreakthroughs and the critical methodologies of cultural, urban,historical, and political geography. Editors Tariq Jazeel and StephenLegg embark on an intellectual journey to scrutinize the relationshipbetween space and spatial categorizations, posing pivotal questionsabout the methodological-philosophical potential that a geographicallygrounded engagement with the concept of subalternity offers in bothhistorical and contemporary contexts. This edited volume seeks tounravel the implications and impact of subaltern studies scholarshipon geographical thought, while navigating beyond methodologicalnationalism and Eurocentrism. The book’s contributors, comprisinghistorians, geographers, urban theorists, and a social activist, presentdiverse studies spanning colonial India, post-colonial Tanzania, AndeanEcuador, Delhi’s recycling centres, Bolivian protest sites, the IndianOcean, and urban fragments. The volume contends that politicointellectualskills are vital for conceiving and representing subalterngeographies. This craft involves grappling with the complexities oftranslation, mistranslation, and the untranslatability inherent inradically different geographical descriptions. The book further exploresthe challenges of retrieving notionally subaltern space from archives orthrough ethnographic and textual research. Lastly, it addresses therepresentational hurdles posed by ordinariness and everyday spatialityin contrast to conventional geographical descriptions.