Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2126826
T. Bastia, K. Datta, K. Hujo, N. Piper, Matthew Walsham
Abstract The term ‘intersectionality’ is usually attributed to Kimberlé Crenshaw, a legal scholar, who coined the term in 1989. In this paper, we reflect on how the concept has travelled through both space and time. We trace the longer history and more complex geography of intersectional approaches rooted in grassroots women’s movements in the Global South, where radical claims were made against the dominance of white, middle-class women’s analysis of the situation of women in the world. These, together with the Black women’s movement in the US, paved the way for the emergence and coining of the term intersectionality. We then reflect on how the concept travelled in three domains of migration-related knowledge: academic research, international policy and advocacy politics. We find that, while some academic research is true to the original politics of intersectionality, there is also some research that has strayed much further away from the original aims of intersectionality, to the extent that we would question whether it can be called intersectional at all. In international policy, we find that the original radicalism of the term has been watered down in the translation of the term into policy targets and measurements. Finally, in advocacy politics we find the greatest continuity with the original aims of the term.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2126444
Kelsey Emard
Abstract In this introduction to the interventions section titled Relationality and Anti-Oppressive Geographic Praxis, I examine how feminist geography has contributed to a concept of relationality within geography and how a deeper engagement with the concept may advance anti-oppressive praxis in the discipline. I introduce four intervention pieces included in this section that explore relational approaches to geographic research, teaching, and institutional practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2126827
Nick McGlynn
Abstract Despite heightened stigmatisation of fatness in gay/bisexual/queer (GBQ) men’s spaces, geographers have yet to explore the nexus of men, sexualities, and fatness. ‘Bear’ is a term used to describe a set of global identities, communities and bodies of GBQ men who are usually large and hairy. Spaces created and used by Bears have been described as inclusive of fat GBQ men, but no geographic research has investigated such men’s experiences in themThis paper presents findings from ‘Bearspace’, a study of Bear spaces in the UK from 2018 to 2020. It shows that ‘comfort’ was how fat GBQ men framed their experiences of both Bear spaces (‘comfortable’) and mainstream LGBTQ spaces (‘uncomfortable’), and that this meant ‘standing out’ or ‘fitting in’ amongst a majority of proximate thin or fat bodies respectively. However the paper also demonstrates that fat stigma persists in Bear spaces, and thatit is part of how Bear spaces are produced as comfortable for most fat GBQ men, through their awareness that they are not the fattest man present. The paper concludes by asserting the significance of differences between spatially proximate fat bodies for the relational conceptualisation of fatness and fat stigma, and for making fat-inclusive spaces.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2022.2122345
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Pub Date : 2022-09-18DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2122946
D. Hopkins, A. Davidson
Abstract One proposed strategy to overcome labour shortages in male-dominated jobs is to attract female workers. This has been the case for lorry driving in the UK. These efforts, however, often work to reproduce binary gendered stereotypes, or seek to include women without questioning how working conditions and everyday embodied work itself constructs gender roles and difference and is differentially experienced. In this paper, we highlight differentiated lorry driving bodies at work, centring lorries as an essential part of global logistical systems. Empirically drawing from interviews and mobile ethnographies with freight drivers in England, we tell a series of composite stories which uncover gendered ideals of worker-bodies, and embodied experiences of mobilities. With the gendered, embodied life’s work of lorry driving remaining largely invisible and poorly understood, we illustrate the complex intersections between places, people, materialities and forms of work. Through this paper, we show how (gendered) narratives and bodily difference are both reproduced and disrupted through lorry driving work. We argue that only through recognising – and destabilising - the gendered re/production of mobile work will other logistical futures be made possible.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2118677
Selda Tuncer
Abstract The following article is an interview with a pioneering feminist geographer Linda McDowell based on an exchange of written questions and responses through email. It is organized in a way to combine McDowell’s biographical journey into geography with her university experience as a student, researcher and academic. The themes explored include her work and influences ranging from geography to sociology and feminist scholarship; doing feminist geography; diversity, decolonization of the discipline and the future of feminist geographies; and in the age of global crises the potentials of feminist geographies. As a conversation between an emerita professor of human/feminist geography from the U.K. and a mid-career feminist urban sociologist from Turkey, the interview is intended to be a feminist dialogue across disciplines, geographies, and generations.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2118241
Ceren Lordoğlu
Abstract Home is both a material and an affective space formed by emotions, belonging, and memories, as well as safety and economic hardship. This article investigates how home and homemaking practices effect women’s sense of belonging and relationship with their ‘selves’, and how different women’s multifaceted experiences differentiate the relationship with home and allow multiple home ideas to arise. To examine this argument, I conducted a qualitative research based on a series of in-depth interviews with two different groups of women, who left their homes and established new homes in Istanbul, Turkey. In line with the processual- and relational-space perspective, I aim to explore how home feeling and self-realization are intertwined with women’s relationships with the home and homemaking practices. The study emphasises the significance of home feeling for women’s sense of belonging, homemaking practices as a survivor strategy to withstand abuse and home as a space with the potential to construct self.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2115981
Belinda Mahlknecht, T. Bork-Hüffer
Abstract Cyberbullying has become an ever-pressing topic for young people in a time of ubiquitous media. Some of the existing, mostly quantitative studies reveal that (cyber-)bullying is gendered and that female and genderqueer young people are bullied more often and differently than males. However, there is a lack of qualitative studies that look into the specific reproduction and dynamics of gendered discourses in bullying that stretches across entangled socio-material-technological spaces. Informed by insights from digital geographies, gender(-queer) geographies, and interdisciplinary research on (cyber-)bullying, and taking a feminist perspective, this article investigates gendered discourses in young adults’ narratives about (cyber-)bullying. The analysis is based upon 42 written narratives produced by young adults attending upper secondary schools in Austria describing (cyber-)bullying they were involved in as (co-)perpetrators, targets or bystanders. (Cyber-)bullying reported ranges from early undesired reception of sexual content to hypersexualized harassment (by peers) to sexual grooming (by unknown adults). Rather than focusing on the narrators’ active or passive roles in the bullying practices themselves, through narrative analysis we reveal how, in their accounts of (cyber-)bullying attacks, our participants—often unintentionally—reproduce gender roles and ideals of femininity and masculinity, and therewith deeply ingrained heteronormative discourses that prevail in Austrian society. For female young people, the persistent and complex ‘sexual double standard’ is particularly harmful in serving to legitimize undesired hypersexualization of their bodies online while simultaneously prohibiting their right to self-determined sexual practices online.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2115225
Sreya Majumdar
{"title":"No real choice: how culture and politics matter for reproductive autonomy","authors":"Sreya Majumdar","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2115225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2115225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"32 1","pages":"899 - 902"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88636585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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