Latinx Geographies: Identity, Memory & Place

How does place inform your identity, your culture, and your relations? How do people create meaning through their relationship with place? How are histories embedded in place and how do these histories continue to impact experiences in the present? How are art, culture, music and food also reflections of a community's relationship to place? In Latinx geographies, we will explore these questions in relation to Latinx peoples from across the diaspora, to understand how Latinx peoples produce, and experience, the places they inhabit. These geographies are multisensory and tangible, made up of the layered dimensions of the places and peoples we exist in relation to. Students will be invited to weave their own conceptions of Latinx geographies in the course, developing a final project that traces the spatial and creative methods that emerge from their lived genealogies.