GEO Lecture Prof. Hayden Lorimer | Thursday 27 March

Prof Hayden Lorimer, chair of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh:

"In this talk I’ll consider the place of a public library in the life of a city neighbourhood. I’ll do so twice over. In 1883, when the doors first opened. Then 140 years later, in 2023, when they permanently closed; the same point in time that the library building’s origin story resurfaced during a sustained community campaign aimed at reversing the closure decision.

My talk will weave together narrative accounts of various regimes of violence – historical and contemporary, global and local, military and economic, summary and slow – that all proved pivotal in making, and then breaking, the library. I'll be figuring the research on which my talk is based as a contribution to ongoing decolonial research that seeks to re-historicise specific civic landmarks and properties in Britain’s cities and countryside. I hope it will show how the compilation of global histories of localities ought to be at the heart of place-based research, inserted as a necessary exercise in any effort to make place anew."

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