Pub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2159335
Itzel San Roman Pineda, Hattie Lowe, Laura J. Brown, J. Mannell
Abstract This article contributes to current discussions about researcher trauma and encourages academic institutions to implement the systems of support that are required to make research work psychologically safe. Currently, conversations of research-related trauma have not produced institutional changes in academia due to a dominant masculinist rationale that sees research as an emotionless job aimed at achieving an objective account of reality. However, we argue that recognition of the emotions felt while doing research can improve the wellbeing of researchers, inform findings, and enrich overall scholarship. We call for academic institutions to allocate the necessary resources to further research on research-related trauma across disciplines and methods and to set in place systems of support centred on an ethics of care to help prevent, address and overcome researcher trauma.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2158178
Jaeyeong Lee, Ruwen Chang
Abstract In this article, we examine the ‘geopolitical positionality’ of transnational feminist researchers caught between hostile countries (home-field). We define geopolitical positionality as the researchers’ position influenced by international politics, discourses, and practices by core powers and hegemonic states. By revisiting our fieldwork experiences, we interrogate how our geopolitical positionalities have a great impact on the process of feminist knowledge production and researchers’ well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In the era of global trade wars, the geopolitical positionality of transnational researchers requires more scholarly attention; however, a focus on this geopolitical positionality remains practically nonexistent in feminist geography. This article works to fill this void by reflecting on our fieldwork experiences in the geopolitical tensions between China and the US (for Ruwen Chang) and between South Korea and Japan (for Jaeyeon Lee). By sharing our vulnerabilities and hardships concerning our fieldwork prior to and during the COVID-19 crisis, we aim to accomplish two goals. First, by showing the vulnerability of transnational feminist researchers who are caught between hostile countries (home-field), we hope to create a space of compassion and support in/beyond academia. Second, with our analysis of geopolitical positionality, we demonstrate that transnational knowledge is precariously produced across imaginary and material boundaries between the personal, the academic, the national, and the geopolitical.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2158177
Dominika Studzińska, Magdalena Szmytkowska, K. Nowicka
Abstract Civic, cultural and political engagement of women is an intrinsically interesting issue in the context of Polish migration processes. The Poles constitute the second largest group of immigrants in Germany, after the Turks. Despite this fact, they are still considered the so-called invisible minority, characterised by generally low social and civic engagement which is mainly due to the history of migration to Germany before 1989. However, it has been gradually changing in recent years and nowadays different behaviour patterns can be observed. This is particularly visible among the women who are more socially, culturally and politically active than the men. Although it cannot be regarded as a general trend, it may be considered a significant precedent indicating some key changes in Polish migration to Germany. What is more, the level of socio-political engagement depends on the host city itself, as well as on numerous socio-cultural and economic issues. In order to grasp the variability of behaviour patterns and approaches of the Polish women in Germany, a series of in-depth interviews was carried out in two German cities: Berlin and Hamburg. The study allowed to assess the level of participation in both cities and revealed some reasons behind the diversity of behaviour patterns observed in the selected cities.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2149475
Valerie De Craene
During a lunch break with some of my colleagues, a (rather sceptically looking) colleague asked me: ‘but you are not advocating that researchers should have sex with their respondents, right?’ I had just been talking about my ongoing doctoral research, in which I talked about being surprised that the sexual body of researchers is often absent from research outputs, including in geographies of sexualities (and human geography more broadly). I had explained how I felt this was rather odd, given the omnipresence of the reflexive turn in geographies of sexualities, and earlier, prominent geographers working on sexualities had called for the inclusion of the researcher’s sexual embodiment (Bell 1995, 2007; Binnie 1997; Cupples 2002). However, until that moment, accounts where researchers included their erotic subjectivities beyond static or abstract identifiers and markers (Lerum 2001) remained scarce, and I wondered why that was. The question my colleague asked me therefore resonated with me, also long after that lunch break, because – based on the words and tone of the question – it was clear that my colleague considered this a no go. And while my answer to the question is indeed no, I do not think researchers should have sex with their respondents, I also do not want to argue that we by definition should not.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2022.2142533
Cynthia Bejarano, María Eugenia Hernández Sánchez
Abstract In this article, we develop a praxis to interpret violence against migrants and border communities in the U.S.–Mexico Paso del Norte borderlands, that is applicable to other global border regions in crisis. We reframe the violence that occurs daily on both sides of the border as a form of ‘radical violence’ that cuts across racial, gendered, class, interpersonal, and institutional lines, which is also physical, representational, epistemic, and spiritual. We argue that together, these forms of violence are radical because they strike at the roots of social relationships, families, and communities, as well as the larger collection of rights all human beings deserve. We articulate a notion of ‘radical love’ in contrast to radical violence as a transformational counterweight to the brutality that blankets people, institutions, and the land itself in border regions. We propose a strategy that anchors and transforms our collective rage to confront this violence by people seeking to build friendships, community, and coalitions. We call this framework a transborder friendship praxis (TFP), which embodies collective rage and radical love as interventions to violence against migrants and border communities and the embodied violence of militarizing and securitizing border regions, and as a model for building solidarity across international boundaries. Our framework is rooted in the tenets of autoethnography, everyday geographies, and geographies of friendship, and draw upon the scholarship of ‘witnessing’ as a subversive act and relational resistance as a methodology of witnessing in action.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2135492
Christine Knott, Madeleine Gustavsson
Abstract Both fisheries and feminism have been the subject of much research spanning academic disciplines and topics for many years. The papers in this themed issue are considered ‘fishy’ in the sense that they are both about fisheries and fish in diverse places, but also because they use a feminist lens, and feminism is often taken as something suspicious that can be doubted by virtue of the social bias associated with the term. Feminism has long offered an understanding of how patriarchal frameworks are embedded within larger structures of societies that maintain social inequities. In their various papers, the authors bring critical insight to understanding the significance of feminist research and its potential for understanding the connections between place and the future of our relationship with oceans and marine ecosystems. This themed issue contributes to a hopefully growing interest in feminist insights to fisheries and ocean/maritime spaces, and addresses more broadly, the argument that (feminist) geography has remained ‘land-locked’.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2134314
Georgina Alonso
Abstract Vietnam’s offshore fishing industry remains a space dominated by men, with fish work being tied to notions of what it means to be a man. This paper uses interviews data and participant observation to assess the ways in which masculinities shape and are shaped by labour relations in offshore fishing in Southern Vietnam. Findings show that labour relations are maintained through an emphasis on the abilities of men to do difficult physical work, behavioural expectations associated with masculine norms, and a homosocial bonding culture at sea, in addition to a bonding culture on land that involves drinking and women as entertainment. Multiple masculinities are identified with varying degrees of fluidity as informed especially by class and with dynamics differing at sea versus on land. In a context of fish stock decline and international pressure for strict fisheries reform, efforts to sustain an offshore fishing workforce rely, in part, on the reproduction of a particular local hierarchy of masculinities.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2133091
Margot Rubin, Alexandra Parker
Abstract Despite growing scholarship recognising every-day mobility and the manifestations of geographies of care of children and their caregivers, their practices are still under-researched and largely viewed as deviations from the norm. Cultural expectations, socio-economic conditions, and identities, amongst a host of other intersectional factors, influence how ‘care’ is understood and practised in different households and individuals. Based on significant fieldwork in 5 communities across the Gauteng city-region, South Africa, over a period of 9 months and using a mixed-method approach, this paper traces notions of ‘good’ parenting, the influence of gendered social norms and the specifics of urban morphology to explore the daily footprints of care. The Gauteng case, an exemplar of city-regions in the global south, offers insights into the complexities of care in a context of state absence in daily care and the consequent need for high levels of privatised responsibility. The method comprises focus groups, qualitative interviews as well as an innovative mobility tracking app on smartphones. Our analysis shows how relations of care within the domestic sphere influence mobility patterns, transport choices and spatial footprints at the urban scale, at locations of care as well as through materialities of care. The physical manifestations and spatial implications of parental geographies of care need to be understood and considered at both a theoretical and policy level to address the spatial and transport needs of parents and families in the urban environment.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2128071
Jana Kopelent Rehak
Abstract This article examines the subject of women’s knowledge in a small fishing community on Smith Island, Maryland in the U.S. I discuss this how fluid gender division of knowledge relates to life on a small island, and how it also lends itself to a certain social cohesion. Between women. I focus on this gender cohesion, as I explore the rituals of Smith Island women, framing my discussion around the annual event known as the Ladies Dinner. By following the structure of a particular gender-specific celebration, I not only discuss solidarity in women’s agency, but also offer an in-depth analysis of the satirical skits performed on stage, showing a double figure elicited through the technique of comic inversion. In my analysis of the comedic parodies presented, I further discuss the playful and fluid nature of such engagements and the subversions of gender, which women use when they are confronted with perceived gender boundaries. This article shows how deeply Smith Island women embrace their collective life and reveals their strategies for reinventing their multilevel knowledge in the face of a changing socioecology.
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