Welcome to Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective!
This is Episode 1: Clyde Woods, Dispossession, and Resistance in New Orleans
In this first full episode of Antipod we turn our attention to Black Geographies, the theme of our first season. Hosts Brian Williams and Akira Drake Rodriguez walk listeners through a series of clips from a panel on Clyde Woods’s posthomously published work Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations of Post-Katrina New Orleans, edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Brian and Akira comment on the use of Woods’s “blues epistemology” framework to contextualize the ongoing making and re-making of Black geographies in New Orleans. Covering themes from dispossession to displacement to the fallacy of “natural” disasters, this episode challenges traditional notions of urban planning and privileges what Woods’s calls “the visions of the dispossessed.” Clips from this episode are from an “Author Meets Critics” panel at the Community Book Center in New Orleans’s Seventh Ward, a space of continuity for pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans residents. The participants in the discussion were: former Woods student and activist-poet Sunni Patterson; Khalil Shahyd, Senior Policy Advocate at the National Resource Defense Council; Anna Brand, Asst. Prof at the University of California at Berkeley; Shana Griffin from Jane’s Place, New Orleans’ first community land trust; Sue Mobley, who, at the time of the panel, was the Public Programs Manager for the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane University; and Jordan T. Camp (editor) who at the time of the panel was at Barnard College, and is now the Director of Research at the People’s Forum in New York.
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Featuring:
Community Book Center: https://www.facebook.com/Community-Book-Center-178125373443/
Sunni Patterson: https://sunnipatterson.bandcamp.com/ and https://twitter.com/sunnipatterson?lang=en
Sue Mobely : https://colloqate.org/about FORMERLY http://small.tulane.edu/our-team/leadership/
Shana Griffin: https://www.shanamgriffin.com and https://jpnsi.org/
Anna Brand: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/anna-livia-brand
Jordan Camp: https://peoplesforum.org/about/staff/ FORMERLY https://gc-cuny.academia.edu/JordanCamp
Khalil Shahyd: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/khalil-shahyd
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Our theme music is “It’s Not Jazz,” by Tronx.
Our interstital music is “Murder and Mardi Gras” and “Walking Revolution” by Dee-1, a New Orleans artist who thought with the late Dr. Woods, as well as a sample from AtticaBluesBlues, a compilation of several Blues artists
Our outro music is “Everything Electric and Little More,” by Frenic
Music from Tronx and Frenic are available on archive.org’s amazing Netlabels collection and is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0. Music from Dee-1 is available from the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/dystopiaq02…TronxItsNotJazz.mp3
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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Many thanks to The Antipode Foundation for their generous support.
Episode 1 is hosted by Akira Drake Rodriguez and Brian Williams.
The episode was mixed and edited by KT Bender and Brian Williams.
This episode was produced by all members of the Antipod Sound Collective.
Please cite as: Antipod Sound Collective. “Episode 1: Clyde Woods, Dispossession, and Resistance in New Orleans.” Hosted by Akira Drake Rodriguez and Brian Williams, edited by KT Bender and Brian Williams. August 19, 2019. https://thisisantipod.org/2019/08/19/episode-1/
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Bibliography
Arena, John. 2012. Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization. University of Minnesota Press.
Harris, Cheryl. 1993. “Whiteness as Property” Harvard Law Review 106(8): 1707-1794.
Vale, Lawrence. 2013. Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities. University of Chicago Press.
Woods, Clyde. 1998. Development Arrested: Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta. Verso.
Woods, Clyde. 2002. “Life After Death” Professional Geographer 54(1): 62-66
Woods, Clyde and McKittrick, Katherine (Eds). 2007. Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. South End Press.
Woods, Clyde (Au.), Camp, Jordan T., and Pulido, Laura (Eds). 2017. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans. University of Georgia Press.
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