Wednesday October 28th, 6:30pm, University Center Rm 515

From the earliest writings by surveyors and colonizers of the coastal swamps of the southeast to the Kerner Commission’s surveys on urban uprisings of the 1960s, geographical and social studies have been used to map and control people occupying marginal and conflictual spaces. Authors Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford will be reading from their new book Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South, specifically looking at the maroon rebellions of the Great Dismal Swamp in the colonial period and the urban riots of southern cities in the 1960s. We will be focusing on attempts to map and manage those geographies of rebellion as well as critiquing the current trend in “resilience” as a state strategy to contain the threats of climate change and urban insurgency.