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Speaking with specters: experimental geographies in practice

Speaking with specters: experimental geographies in practice 422030 CGJXXX10.1177/1474474011422030Enigbokan and PatchettCultural Geographies cultural geographies 19(4) 535 –546 Speaking with specters: © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub. experimental geographies co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474011422030 cgj.sagepub.com in practice Adeola Enigbokan City University of New York, USA Merle Patchett University of Alberta, Canada Introduction Figure 1. Image used for the Terrible Karma flyer. Photograph by L. W. Hine © NYPL. Terrible Karma: Reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a mobile audio-visual installation exploring the global reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (in which 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, were killed) on its 100th anniversary: 25 March 2011. Corresponding author: Merle Patchett, City-Regions Studies Centre, University of Alberta, 10756 79 Ave, Edmonton, T6E 1S3, Alberta, Canada Email: merle44@hotmail.com 536 cultural geographies 19(4) The title – Terrible Karma – refers to both the title of a protest song sung by Cambodian female garment workers at a union rally in Phnom Penh 2010 and to the idea that events of the garment industry past continue to haunt the present: that injustice unresolved always comes back. The instal- lation ‘took to the streets’ on 25 March 2011when the audio-visuals were projected out of a UHAUL truck parked in downtown http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Speaking with specters: experimental geographies in practice

Enigbokan, Adeola; Patchett, Merle
Cultural Geographies , Volume 19 (4): 12 – Oct 1, 2012
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422030 CGJXXX10.1177/1474474011422030Enigbokan and PatchettCultural Geographies cultural geographies 19(4) 535 –546 Speaking with specters: © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub. experimental geographies co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474011422030 cgj.sagepub.com in practice Adeola Enigbokan City University of New York, USA Merle Patchett University of Alberta, Canada Introduction Figure 1. Image used for the Terrible Karma flyer. Photograph by L. W. Hine © NYPL. Terrible Karma: Reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a mobile audio-visual installation exploring the global reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (in which 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, were killed) on its 100th anniversary: 25 March 2011. Corresponding author: Merle Patchett, City-Regions Studies Centre, University of Alberta, 10756 79 Ave, Edmonton, T6E 1S3, Alberta, Canada Email: merle44@hotmail.com 536 cultural geographies 19(4) The title – Terrible Karma – refers to both the title of a protest song sung by Cambodian female garment workers at a union rally in Phnom Penh 2010 and to the idea that events of the garment industry past continue to haunt the present: that injustice unresolved always comes back. The instal- lation ‘took to the streets’ on 25 March 2011when the audio-visuals were projected out of a UHAUL truck parked in downtown

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