Panel at the 120th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Presiding Officer: Laura Ceia (California State University - Long Beach)

Colonialism has had profound impacts on the spatial organization of various societies, shaping patterns of settlement, migration, and resource distribution; consequently, colonialism has further influenced the construction and perception of spatial relationships within post-colonial environments. In these contexts, space has been a site of struggle and negotiation, where different class, race and gender groups contest for control over land, resources, and cultural symbols.

This call for papers seeks to explore the intersections of space and inequality in colonial and post-colonial settings, examining how spatial practices reflect and reinforce power relations, as well as how they may also be used to resist or subvert colonial hierarchies.

We welcome papers from a range of disciplines, including literature and cinema, history, geography, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, preferably within a French or Francophone contexts. However, comparative, cross-cultural studies are encouraged as well.