title: Contemporary relevance of Anne Moody, Black studies and imprisoned Black intellectual thought

authors: Norris, Adele N.

subjects: Anne Moody

abstract: Anne Moody’s 1968 autobiographical text, Coming of Age in Mississippi, is receiving increased interest during this current moment of legislated anti-Blackness, most observable in the removal/outlawing of Black history and thought. Moody’s early life in the Deep South during the 1940s-1950s and as a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement inform how we understand the continuity of anti-blackness and racial terror. Glen Conley, an imprisoned citizen, examines and teaches Anne Moody within a Mississippi prison context. While her book is used across several academic disciplines, the study of Moody within the prison context is not well known. Conley’s political poetry explores Moody’s life and text, bringing renewed attention to themes of Black mental health, survival, and resistance under a harsh U.S. Southern regime. Using a prison-praxis framework, this paper centers the knowledge production from the civically dead (imprisoned population), which allows for broader insights into themes of racialized confinement, criminalization and surveillance. Thus, this essay situates Conley’s scholarship within the lineage of Black imprisoned radical tradition where he draws attention to Moody’s prescient voice during a political climate of overt forms of legislated anti-Blackness and systemic erasure.

text: Contemporary relevance of Anne Moody, Black studies and imprisoned Black intellectual thought Anne Moody’s 1968 autobiographical text, Coming of Age in Mississippi, is receiving increased interest during this current moment of legislated anti-Blackness, most observable in the removal/outlawing of Black history and thought. Moody’s early life in the Deep South during the 1940s-1950s and as a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement inform how we understand the continuity of anti-blackness and racial terror. Glen Conley, an imprisoned citizen, examines and teaches Anne Moody within a Mississippi prison context. While her book is used across several academic disciplines, the study of Moody within the prison context is not well known. Conley’s political poetry explores Moody’s life and text, bringing renewed attention to themes of Black mental health, survival, and resistance under a harsh U.S. Southern regime. Using a prison-praxis framework, this paper centers the knowledge production from the civically dead (imprisoned population), which allows for broader insights into themes of racialized confinement, criminalization and surveillance. Thus, this essay situates Conley’s scholarship within the lineage of Black imprisoned radical tradition where he draws attention to Moody’s prescient voice during a political climate of overt forms of legislated anti-Blackness and systemic erasure.

year: 2025-12-31

title: Editorial: Congresses, commissions and change

authors: Chalmers, Lex

subjects: Commission on Geographical Education

abstract: I am pleased to have the opportunity to write what will be a valedictory editorial for IRGEE in terms of the 2008–2012 Commission on Geographical Education. As most will know, the Commission on Geographical Education is one of about 40 such bodies that carry out the work of the International Geographical Union.

text: Editorial: Congresses, commissions and change I am pleased to have the opportunity to write what will be a valedictory editorial for IRGEE in terms of the 2008–2012 Commission on Geographical Education. As most will know, the Commission on Geographical Education is one of about 40 such bodies that carry out the work of the International Geographical Union.

year: 2012

title: Three Pacific writers from Aotearoa discuss Indigenous languages and visual poetry

authors: Salsano, Marama

abstract: This article draws on several months of conversations, creative workshopping, and writing sessions between Māori writers Ammon Hāwea Apiata and Marama Salsano, and Rotuman writer Mere Taito. Here, we contemplate the presence of Māori and Rotuman languages in our visual poetry. For too long, critical work about English language writing by Indigenous writers from the Pacific has been Eurocentric. Papua New Guinean writer-scholar Steven Winduo suggests the need to unwrite this “imagined Oceania,” while Māori author Keri Hulme writes disparagingly of the lower-cased ‘gods of literature’, and in her ReadNZ lecture, Sāmoan-Māori fantasy writer Lani Wendt Young describes traditional publishing as the “white castle of literature.” While white castled gods of literature have historically ignored the everyday vibrancy of Pacific voices, Indigenous writers from the Pacific continue to unapologetically write, read, experiment, critique, and play with words. Into this complexity, we acknowledge that for many Indigenous writers from the Pacific, English language Eurocentric thought and texts dominate our lives; many of us are second language learners of our languages.

text: Three Pacific writers from Aotearoa discuss Indigenous languages and visual poetry This article draws on several months of conversations, creative workshopping, and writing sessions between Māori writers Ammon Hāwea Apiata and Marama Salsano, and Rotuman writer Mere Taito. Here, we contemplate the presence of Māori and Rotuman languages in our visual poetry. For too long, critical work about English language writing by Indigenous writers from the Pacific has been Eurocentric. Papua New Guinean writer-scholar Steven Winduo suggests the need to unwrite this “imagined Oceania,” while Māori author Keri Hulme writes disparagingly of the lower-cased ‘gods of literature’, and in her ReadNZ lecture, Sāmoan-Māori fantasy writer Lani Wendt Young describes traditional publishing as the “white castle of literature.” While white castled gods of literature have historically ignored the everyday vibrancy of Pacific voices, Indigenous writers from the Pacific continue to unapologetically write, read, experiment, critique, and play with words. Into this complexity, we acknowledge that for many Indigenous writers from the Pacific, English language Eurocentric thought and texts dominate our lives; many of us are second language learners of our languages.

year: 2024-08-24