2007/03/01 by Mary Gilmartin, Lawrence D Berg, Lawrence D. Berg
Social Sciences · #Historical Geography and Geographical Thought #Urban Planning and Governance #Geographies of human-animal interactions
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00724.x
As geographers both living through, and working \non, issues of colonialism in former British colonies, \nthe writings that emanated from anti-colonial movements \naround the world continue to inspire and \nmove us. From Fanon to Césaire, from Senghor to \nCabral to Achebe (see, for example, Fanon 1963 \n1986; Senghor 1965; Césaire 1972; Achebe 1975; \nCabral 1980), these writings are influential partly \nbecause they are grounded in experiences of oppression, \nbut also because they contain alternative visions, \nalternative understandings of how the world could \nbe better. Their successors are to be found today in \ndifferent guises, yet writers like Marcos in Chiapas, \nor Arundhati Roy in India, continue to rail against \ninjustice, and to use the power of language to \nconvince us that other worlds are possible.