Spring 2020
This seminar will explore the connections between space, place and the politics of memory and remembering. People remember, interpret, and construct the past in different ways, sometimes attempting to legitimize their own version of history or to challenge hegemonic versions of it. This is often done by creating places of memory (e.g., memorials and monuments, museums, historic neighborhoods, heritage sites) or by performing spatialized acts of remembering (e.g., commemorative ceremonies, parades, temporary and make-shift memorials, art, media and exhibitions, food festivals). But the representation of memory in place and through spatialized acts is often riddled with different types of politics. For example, conflicts often occur when less powerful or marginalized groups confront and/or challenge more powerful actors’ attempts to create places of memory that reflect official or institutionalized views of the past. Often, conflicts about place-based representations of the past are not really about the past, but rather about the present and, quite often, about the future.
In this seminar we will explore questions such as:
Professor Fernando J. Bosco
Mondays 3:30 to 6:10 pm
This seminar will explore the connections between space, place and the politics of memory and remembering. People remember, interpret, and construct the past in different ways, sometimes attempting to legitimize their own version of history or to challenge hegemonic versions of it. This is often done by creating places of memory (e.g., memorials and monuments, museums, historic neighborhoods, heritage sites) or by performing spatialized acts of remembering (e.g., commemorative ceremonies, parades, temporary and make-shift memorials, art, media and exhibitions, food festivals). But the representation of memory in place and through spatialized acts is often riddled with different types of politics. For example, conflicts often occur when less powerful or marginalized groups confront and/or challenge more powerful actors’ attempts to create places of memory that reflect official or institutionalized views of the past. Often, conflicts about place-based representations of the past are not really about the past, but rather about the present and, quite often, about the future.
In this seminar we will explore questions such as:
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How do places contribute to the construction of collective memory?
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How does collective memory influence the trajectories of place?
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How do social movements and activists spatialize the politics of memory?
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What are the relations between globalization and discourses and practices of memory?
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What is the relation between memory and the city?
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How is cultural and collective memory performed?
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How do we theorize memory and remembering geographically?
The goal of the seminar is also to encourage graduate students to think about memory, remembering, nostalgia, and the connections between past, present and future in relation to their own research interests in human geography. To that end, participants in the seminar will play an active role in shaping the seminar’s content and discussion
Bio
Dr. Fernando J. Bosco is Professor of Geography and Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography between SDSU and UCSB. He is also affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and the Center for Youth, Environment, Society and Space at SDSU. Professor Bosco works at the intersections of urban, social, and political geography. His research interests include the geographic dimensions of social movements and collective action, geographies of children and youth, geographies of food in urban environments, emotional geographies, geographic thought, and qualitative research methods. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics and emphasizes the importance of community-based geographic research and critically engaged scholarship. He has co-edited several books and written numerous journal articles, book chapters, policy reports and review articles. He is active in the American Association of Geographers and the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. He is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the Advanced Placement Human Geography Development Committee for the College Board and he has served as Senior Panelist for Geography and Spatial Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Education
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2002
- M.A., The Ohio State University, 1997
- B.A., Wittenberg University, 1994
Courses Taught
- GEOG 102: People, Places and Environments
- GEOG 324: Latin America
- GEOG 590: Community-based Geographic Research: Food and Place
- GEOG 740: Seminar in Urban Social Geography
Research
- Urban, Social and Political Geography, with substantive interests in Social Movements & Informal Politics, Children & Youth, Food Environments, and Places of Memory
- Qualitative Methods
- History of Geographic Thought
- Latin America
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