Landscapes as Archives of (Deadly) Transit
This workshop brings together 12 international scholars and practitioners to consider landscapes as archives of (post)colonial violence, pollution, migration, and memory, and to consider counter-measures to unearth alternative memories through aesthetic representations and local engagement. Expanding on the themes discussed in the panel “Landscapes as Archives of (Deadly) Transit” at the Memory Studies Association Conference (Lima, 2024), this workshop serves as the foundation for an envisioned joint publication. Together, we explore how landscape can function as repositories of disappearance, mourning, and pollution, while also harboring potential for reclamation, resistance, and future-making. We examine landscapes as archives of history, both cultivated and overgrown, visible and erased. Through interdisciplinary approaches that emphasize both human and non-human actors, materiality, and affect, we investigate how landscapes can preserve hidden histories and mobilize memory as a force for justice.
