Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies (Routledge International Handbooks)

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This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary gender and feminist geographies in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It features 48 new contributions from both experienced and emerging scholars, artists and activists who critically review and appraise current spatial politics. Each chapter advances the future development of feminist geography and gender studies, as well as empirical evidence of changing relationships between gender, power, place and space. Following an introduction by the Editors, the handbook presents original work organized into four parts which engage with relevant issues including violence, resistance, agency and desire: Establishing feminist geographies Placing feminist geographies Engaging feminist geographies Doing feminist geographies The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in feminist geography, gender studies and geographical thought. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Establishing, placing, engaging and doing feminist geographies Introduction Changing places, politics and gender Overview Part 1: Establishing feminist geographies Part 2: Placing feminist geographies Part 3: Engaging feminist geographies Part 4: Doing feminist geographies Conclusion References Part 1 Establishing feminist geographies 2 Indigenous Australian sexualities explored through the lens of sex work Introduction The colonial hangover Engaging with sexuality with Indigenous Australian sex workers Indigenous sex-worker views on sex and sexuality Conclusion A provocation … Key readings References 3 From order to chaos: Geographies of sexualities Section 1: mapping geographies of sexualities Section 2: queer geographies Section 3: homonormativity and homonationalism Section 4: expanding queer – bodies, affect and emotion Section 5: trans geographies Section 6: future geographies of sexualities Key readings References 4 Hip-hop urbanism, placemaking and community-building among black lgbt youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Introduction Black feminist interventions in LGBT/queer studies Black feminist geographies: interventions on space, race, gender and violence Gendered racism as homophobic and transphobic violence Rio de Janeiro as a ‘gay-friendly’ afro-paradise Reterritorializing anti-Black landscapes: Casa Nem Conclusion Notes Key readings References 5 Shifting multiple masculinities: Alternative views from Japan and Papua New Guinea Introduction: globalization and the ‘crisis’ among men Rethinking concepts of masculinity Rethinking men’s violence and bodies from Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea’s masculine societies Masculinity and the male body in rural Papua New Guinea Shifting masculinities in Japan and East Asia: corporate masculinity as hegemonic masculinity and its transformation Ikumen Soshokukei danshi Otaku Neto-uyo/Petit (neo)nationalists East Asian masculinities and their changes Conclusion Notes Key readings References 6 Disabled women academics reshaping the landscape of the academy Introduction Navigating the neo-liberal landscape The work of ‘passing’ in the academy Time–space continuum Conclusion Key readings References 7 Gender and the discipline of geography: Case studies of relational networks of support in Western academia Introduction Historic examples of support networks for women in British geography Vignette of a networker From the Women and Geography Study Group to the Gender and Feminist Geography Research Group debate in RGS–IBG 2012–2013 Current networks of support for early-career women in geography Conclusion Key readings References 8 Skin, sweat and materiality: Feminist geographies of emotion and affect Introduction The body: affective politics of shame and disgust Public space: breasts, sweat and (dis)connection Private space: love and materiality in unmade homes ‘Doing’ feminist research Conclusions Notes Key readings References 9 On the subject of performativity: Judith Butler’s influence in geography Introduction Philosophical foundations of performativity Performativity in geography: space and the subject of performativity Future directions: taking the ‘relational turn’ with performativity Conclusion Key readings References 10 Politics and space/time Space and time Radical geography Issues of gender The view from physics An alternative view of space Key readings Bibliography 11 Feminist engagement with the economy: Spaces of resistance and transformation Introduction Feminist perspectives on labour and work Geographies of social reproduction and scale Globalization and migration Intersectional approaches to the economy Gender, financial subjectivity and financial inclusion Strategies of resistance – transforming economic livelihoods Reimagining feminist alternatives for the economy Key readings References 12 Disentangling globalization: Towards a feminist geography of hair and beauty Introduction Intimate geographies of globalization: feminist interventions Global commodities through a feminist geographic lens Putting a feminist commodity chain analysis to work: snapshots from the Gulf–East African hair trade Insight 1: disruptive stories of globalization: Uganda and Dubai as drivers of global beauty Insight 2: sigh … ‘Russians have the best hair’: ideologies of power in the global hair trade Insight 3: scalar innovations: the global intimacies of hair and beauty Conclusion: towards a feminist geography of hair and beauty Key readings References Part 2 Placing feminist geographies 13 Embodiment: Lesbians, space, sperm and reproductive technologies Introduction ‘You’ve just got to make shit up sometimes’: an overview of Lisa’s project Recent trends in research on bodies From inscribing the surfaces of bodies to bodily interiors From presuming man/woman and male/female to trans bodies and geographies From sex and gender to multiple and intersecting embodied subjectivities From human to technology shaping bodies From rationality to emotion and affect Conclusion Key readings References 14 The intimate geopolitics of race and gender in the United States Introduction From geopolitics to critical geopolitics Feminist interventions Masculinity, agriculture and the good life: farmers and others in Iowa Intimate entanglements of geopolitical care: Race and waste in Badin, NC Conclusions Key readings References 15 Home-keeping in long-term displacement Introduction Policy conceptions of home and contemporary solutions to displacement Feminist critique of home in the context of displacement Constellations of home: a feminist approach to home and displacement home Home HOME Conclusion: home-keeping as an alternative to ‘durable solutions’ Notes Key readings References 16 Environmental politics in the everyday: Jam, red meat and showers Introduction Ecofeminisms Post-Marxist feminisms Feminist science studies Feminist political ecology A visceral approach to environmental politics in the everyday Jam – sticky encounters with a difference Kangaroo Showers Conclusions: gender, power and the human environment interface Key readings References 17 Gender and urban neoliberalization Introduction A gendered urban neoliberalization Gender and urban renewal The neoliberalization of safety work Conclusion Note Key readings References 18 Gender and sexuality in participatory planning in Israel: A journey between discourses Introduction Forbidden and permitted gendered spaces: gendered blinded urban planning approach Gendered civic capacity in urban regeneration projects: paradoxical moments LGBTQ safe urban spaces: the complex relations between community and state authorities Conclusion Note Key readings References 19 Rurality, geography and feminism: Troubling relationships Introduction Feminist rural geography: troubling rural geography epistemologically and methodologically Feminist rural geography: troubling urban geography Troubling White, Western feminism in rural geography Decolonial feminisms Conclusion Note Key readings References 20 Nationhood: Feminist approaches, emancipatory processes and intersecting identities Introduction Gendering the nation Feminisms and national projects The Catalan case: feminist perspectives on independence Concluding remarks Key readings References 21 Unsettling gender and sexuality across nations: Transnationalism within and between nations Introduction Gender, sexuality and race in transit The ‘national’ in ‘transnationalism’ Transnationalism in a settler colonial nation Conclusion Notes Key readings References 22 Mobilities and citizenship Introduction Citizenship and mobility studies in the twenty-first century global city Citizenship, migration, and the ‘right to the city’ Citizenship, migration and (trans)national identities in the global city: case studies from Toronto, Canada Beyond celebration Key readings References 23 Geographies of gendered migration: Place as difference and connection Introduction Geographies of gendered migration Analysing gendered migration geographically Place as difference Connecting places Future research Notes Key readings References 24 Representing women and gender in memory landscapes Introduction Memory landscapes Women and gender in memory landscapes: absence and allegory Women in memory landscapes: women of politics and women of war Women of politics Women of war Conclusions and aims for movements forward Notes Key readings References 25 Feminist political ecologies: Race, bodies and the human Feminist political ecologies FPE and postcolonial and decolonial influences Black feminist thought: embodied geographies of slavery Sex trafficking and prostitution: from the Niger Delta, Nigeria to Alicante, Spain La Calle de las Negras: ‘This is not my way, I don’t like it, I want to leave’ Final thoughts Note Key readings References Part 3 Engaging feminist geographies 26 Trauma, gender and space: Insights from Bangladesh, Malaysia and the UK Introduction Chronic trauma: multiple forms of gender-based violence in Bangladesh Understandings of trauma: domestic abuse in Malaysia Contested trauma: sexual assault and UK universities Researching trauma Recovery, rebuilding, resistance Acknowledgements Key readings References 27 GEOGRAPHIES OF VIOLENCE: Feminist geopolitical approaches Introduction Researching domestic violence Researching militarized violence Conclusion Key readings References 28 Scaling a survivor-centric approach for survivors of sexual violence: The case of an action-based research project in India Introduction Feminist geography and praxis A survivor-centric approach for social and legal support for survivors of sexual violence: the RAHAT initiative Scaling a survivor-centric approach Replicating the survivor-centric approach in a new community: Navi Mumbai Concurrent strategies to reach the optimal scale Gender transformative strategies while scaling Conclusion Notes Key readings References 29 Motherhood in feminist geography: Current trends and themes Introduction The political economy of mothering Motherhood, difference, intersectionality and identity Mothering and transnationalism Activist mothering Mothering and embodiment Mothering with the more-than-human Conclusion Notes Key readings References 30 Embodied labour in the bioeconomy Introduction Clinical labour New directions for research on embodied labour in the bioeconomy Key readings References 31 Care, health and migration Introduction Care, citizenship and the welfare state Health, place and policy Health and well-being among migrants in London Importing international nurses Health after detention Conclusion Note Key readings References 32 Contexts of ‘caring masculinities’: The gendered and intergenerational geographies of men’s care responsibilities ... Introduction Geographies of care Spaces for caring masculinities The empirical studies The carescapes of grandfatherhood Low-income grandfathering Conclusion Notes Key readings References 33 Giving birth to geographies of young people: The importance of feminist geography beyond feminist geography Introduction Feminist foundations of geographic research on youth Feminist and youth research on bodies, emotions and care Conclusion Key readings References 34 Gendered geographies of development Introduction How gender shapes development concerns and vice versa Gender and development: key debates over time Difference, representation, knowledge, power and masculinities Conclusions Key readings References 35 Feminist visceral politics: From taste to territory Introduction Critical nutrition: co-producing a different approach to nourishment in Philadelphia, PA Food adequacy: cooking up affective partnerships in Medellin, Colombia Embodied social transformation across borders: the case of the Legión del Afecto Conclusions Note Key readings References 36 Feminist perspectives on neoliberal globalization, (post)feminisms and (homo)normativities Introduction Global development and the ideal neoliberal subject Neoliberalizing (post-)feminism Queering/querying neoliberalism Concluding thoughts Notes Key readings References Part 4 Doing feminist geographies 37 Embodied translations: Decolonizing methodologies of knowing and being Entangling our voices, feeling our grounds: three points of departure One: h(a)unting Two: reinvesting Three: war-recording Decolonizing bodies Decoloniality and politics of living Continuing co-tellings Acknowledgements Key readings References 38 ‘Still we rise’: Critical participatory action research for justice Critical participatory action research Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective Caution/Cuidado: we have power Acknowledgments Note Key readings References 39 Spaces and scales of feminist activism Introduction Feminist tactics in academia spaces and knowledge production Cyberspace and social networks: a new public space for activism? How space still matters Becoming mainstream, becoming universal? Notes Key readings References 40 An artful feminist geopolitics of climate change Introduction: a feminist geopolitics of climate change? Animate ‘geos’ – A felt politics of climate change Vulnerable bodies Conclusion: towards a feminist geopolitics of climate change Notes This research is part of a larger project titled “Art/Science: Collaborations, Bodies, and Environments” (http://artscience.arizona.edu/), co-funded under a joint agreement by the US National Science Foundation (Grant No. 86908) and the UK Arts and Key readings References 41 Feminist geography in the anthropocene: Sciences, bodies, futures Introduction Feminist approaches to Anthropocene science Feminist approaches to corporeality and the inhuman Race and coloniality in the Anthropocene Conclusion Key readings References 42 QGIS in feminist geographic research: Its merits and limits Introduction Defining QGIS Applying QGIS Contextualizing QGIS in Tehran: merits and limits Conclusion Key readings References 43 Doing gender in the digital: Feminist geographic methods changing research? Introduction Feminist geographic methods: contributing to the digital turn? Recognition of partial knowledges, reflexive and situated engagement with the digital Critical perspectives on emotion and affect in digital labour Conclusion: developing innovative ways of encountering the digital Key readings References 44 Drone queen of the homeland: The gendered geopolitics of television drama in the age of media convergence Introduction Televisual transformations Post-9/11 television and gender Homeland The drone queen Conclusion: popular cultural citizenship Notes Key readings References 45 Historical research: Gender, politics and ethics Introduction Feminist historical geographies: gendered genealogies Archival fieldwork: ethical considerations Changing practices, ongoing politics Conclusion Notes Key readings References 46 Teaching feminist geography: Practices and perspectives Introduction What we teach: the changing content of feminist geography courses How we teach: feminist pedagogy in geography teaching Where we teach: the importance of the learning environment Conclusion Key readings References 47 Autogeography: Placing research in the first-person singular Spades: why write research in first person singular? Clubs: what are the risks of using personal narrative? Hearts Diamonds Key readings References 48 Narrating new spaces: Theories and practices of storytelling in feminist geographies Introduction: the stories we will tell you Once upon a time: histories of stories and storytelling in geography That’s a good story! Stories and storytelling as methods, methodologies and means of situating ourselves in geography A storied turn and an ending: the rise of geohumanities and of creative geographies, and some final words Note Key readings References Index