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Articles | Volume 75, issue 4
Articles | Volume 75, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-337-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-337-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 75, issue 4
Intervention
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14 Oct 2020
Intervention |  | 14 Oct 2020

“Dear Carl”: thinking visually and geographically about public figures

Juliet J. Fall

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This intervention discusses the politics of place naming in the context of decolonising universities and academic knowledge. It is written as a comic that creates a visual as well as textual narrative by focussing on the figure of Carl Vogt, a 19th century racial theorist and politician whose name was used for a building constructed in 2015 at the University of Geneva. It is written as a personal letter to Carl Vogt.
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