Diego Melo and Colleagues awarded ‘Right to the Discipline’ Grant by The Antipode Foundation
Antipode Foundation “” grants are intended to facilitate creative intellectual and political interventions, inventive forms of collaboration, and tears in the fabric of extant orthodoxies ingeography. There are many radical practices, ideas, and sites of knowledge production that do not receive support in the current funding environment. Thesegrantsencourage imaginative, daring, and unruly scholarship and praxis, including but not limited to workshops, scholar-activism, and conventional modes of research.The Antipode Foundationrecognisesmovements and forces of social and spatial change already at work inside/outside the academy, and wish to amplify interventions that might otherwise not receive funding. In so doing,the Antipode Foundationwantsto support attempts to go beyond, and reshape, the boundaries of established academic practice.
Diego and colleagues will facilitate a series of workshops to explore thenon-conventional, contradictory, deeply affective, and embodied narrativesof people who have been exposed to mining-induced riverine pollution. The 10,000 GBP grant will be used for travel expenses,walk-along interviews,body-territory workshops, a poetry circle,and a script-writing and video editing workshop. These activities will facilitate the tools for participants to build their own narrative and co-produce a film about the slow violence of mechanized gold and copper mining on communities’ bodies and territories.