Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2097202
Sylwia Urbańska, Katarzyna Leszczyńska, K. Zielińska
Abstract The article examines the transformations of masculine formal (ordained) power in the Polish migrant religious organisations of the Roman Catholic Church. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 97 transmigrant women and men (consecrated and lay activists) involved in 14 Polish Catholic Mission organisations in England, Belgium and Sweden, the article gives an insight into various criticisms of patterns of priests’ patriarchal power in the Polish structures of the Roman Catholic Church. The analysis highlights how such power transforms in a transnational context when these organisations have to adapt to and function in more egalitarian, pluralistic and secularised Church organisational cultures than in the more patriarchal culture of Poland. We argue that the transnational context reinforces patriarchal models, albeit in a changed, hybrid form that we call ‘transnational compensatory patriarchy’. Our contribution to the discussion on the gendered transformation of power in transnational religious organisations focuses on two issues. First, we analyse the under-researched transformation of the patterns of masculine formal power in religious migrant organisations. Second, we show through a concept that we call ‘bargaining with egalitarianism’ how patriarchal power isomorphically (and hybridically) adapts itself to the more egalitarian context without losing its patriarchalism, which operates in the sending country. Therefore, we indicate the complexity and ambivalence of the transformation of masculine power by pointing to its intersectional sources and various ways of changing gender regimes.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2022.2102586
Melanie K. Yazzie
Abstract In this article, I ask, how can we draw from acts and forms of kinship to strengthen our dreams of being free? Looking at a specific example of Indigenous political intervention that occurred in January 2017 during the airport protests against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, I explore the political and analytical possibilities of feminist relationality, particularly relations of care, reciprocity, and abundance, for articulating a practice of accountability that is often erased or elided in comfort feminism. These relations of caretaking are at the center of abolitionist and decolonial projects, particularly those espoused by radical Black and Indigenous feminists. I bring Indigenous and Black feminist traditions of relationality together to explore how politicized kinship unsettles comfort feminism and draw from the decolonial and abolition geographies of these two traditions to chart a different path of relationality, one not overdetermined by relations of abandonment, harm, and scarcity that drive the carceral regimes of capitalism and colonialism.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2099351
Mona Chettri
Abstract Sikkim, one of the smallest Indian states is now one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical hubs in the country. Pharmaceutical factories are spaces where gender, technology, dependency, profit, and livelihood operate simultaneously. They represent sites of capital accumulation as well as continuous re-calibration of gender and race relationships. Pharmaceutical companies rely on local women from rural and peri-urban areas for assembly-line and other manual labour; work, which exposes them to new spatial and temporal patriarchal norms. Most importantly, these norms are enforced by migrant men who occupy a distinct and often subservient position in the local social matrix. Inside the factories, migrant men have more power and authority over the local population. Beyond the factory walls, local hill-groups assume positions of authority and control the spatial order, while the factory supervisors and technicians are reduced to a somewhat insignificant group of migrant men. Focussing on pharmaceutical factories in Sikkim, the paper will illustrate (i) how industrial labour exposes women to new temporal and spatialised patriarchy; (ii) how human resource frontiers emerge in recently industrialising borderlands; (iii) and how development creates a flux in identities and relationships between local and migrant communities.
{"title":"New jobs, new spatialised patriarchy: creating factory workers in a Himalayan pharmaceutical hub","authors":"Mona Chettri","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2099351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2099351","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sikkim, one of the smallest Indian states is now one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical hubs in the country. Pharmaceutical factories are spaces where gender, technology, dependency, profit, and livelihood operate simultaneously. They represent sites of capital accumulation as well as continuous re-calibration of gender and race relationships. Pharmaceutical companies rely on local women from rural and peri-urban areas for assembly-line and other manual labour; work, which exposes them to new spatial and temporal patriarchal norms. Most importantly, these norms are enforced by migrant men who occupy a distinct and often subservient position in the local social matrix. Inside the factories, migrant men have more power and authority over the local population. Beyond the factory walls, local hill-groups assume positions of authority and control the spatial order, while the factory supervisors and technicians are reduced to a somewhat insignificant group of migrant men. Focussing on pharmaceutical factories in Sikkim, the paper will illustrate (i) how industrial labour exposes women to new temporal and spatialised patriarchy; (ii) how human resource frontiers emerge in recently industrialising borderlands; (iii) and how development creates a flux in identities and relationships between local and migrant communities.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":"1482 - 1502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88993771","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}
Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2094897
Inge A. M. Boudewijn
Abstract The importance of mining temporalities and gendered impacts of mining activity are receiving increasing academic attention. This article contributes to these debates by addressing the impacts of large-scale mining activity on women’s sense of place-attachment and landscape, focusing on Cajamarca, Peru, home to the Yanacocha mine since 1993. Using women’s hand-drawn maps representing ‘sites of change’, the article critically examines the various ways in which women communicate mining as deeply affecting their everyday lives in gendered ways. This mapping method tapped into emotional connections to place and local landscapes, and by incorporating stories and maps of both women opposing and supporting further mining expansion in the region, the article goes on to show that both groups share an understanding of the Yanacocha mine as a disruption of time and place.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2091523
Júlia Pascual-Bordas, Maria Rodó-Zárate
Abstract Feminist critique has challenged the traditional conception of the home by emphasizing it as a politicized space, such that its meanings and how it is experienced are linked to complex social processes and relations. A focus on the home thus enables us to understand some important social practices and politics. Home, and in particular specific areas within it, have however not received as much academic attention as they merit. Here we examine how ten young Catalan women with dissident sexualities experience different rooms of their family home, with the aim of analysing how they manage their gender and sexual orientation. We thus contribute to the development of geographies of home by focusing on both the restrictions and the resistances that configure and contest the gendered processes of heteronormalization and adultification of the home space, shedding light on the material and symbolic dimensions of home, as well as on its relations with public space, power and identity.
{"title":"Gender, sexuality and home: young non-heterosexual women and their experiences in domestic space rooms in a medium-sized city in Catalonia","authors":"Júlia Pascual-Bordas, Maria Rodó-Zárate","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2091523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2091523","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Feminist critique has challenged the traditional conception of the home by emphasizing it as a politicized space, such that its meanings and how it is experienced are linked to complex social processes and relations. A focus on the home thus enables us to understand some important social practices and politics. Home, and in particular specific areas within it, have however not received as much academic attention as they merit. Here we examine how ten young Catalan women with dissident sexualities experience different rooms of their family home, with the aim of analysing how they manage their gender and sexual orientation. We thus contribute to the development of geographies of home by focusing on both the restrictions and the resistances that configure and contest the gendered processes of heteronormalization and adultification of the home space, shedding light on the material and symbolic dimensions of home, as well as on its relations with public space, power and identity.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"31 1","pages":"1639 - 1661"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78080792","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2022.2091521
Diana Infante-Vargas, K. Boyer
Abstract This paper extends scholarship on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through a case study in Saltillo, Mexico. The work is based on interviews (N:12) and survey work (N: 611) with women who have experienced GBV in spaces of public transport (busses) in this city. We extend existing work through an analysis of the role of the local state in GBV by exploring women’s experiences of the systems in place to report and redress episodes of GBV in spaces of public transport. Building on existing conceptual work in feminist geography, we argue that systems for reporting gender-based violence in public transport can function as a mechanism of re-victimisation on the part of local authorities. Based on this analysis, we argue that the Mexican state is not only failing in its commitment to enable women to live lives free from violence but also acting as an agent of further violence
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2089096
Sarah Klosterkamp
Abstract Listening occurs in many ways in fieldwork situations, but it is not always consensual or without complexities. It is especially challenging in situations deeply embedded in institutional power, rendered and shaped by the law and its objectives. Yet, how listening differ within and between sites saturated with institutional knowledge remain still understudied. In this paper, I use my five-year fieldwork experience in German antiterrorism trials to illustrate how applying different politics of listening gradually deepened my understanding of what the trial and the wider legal process as a whole were making visible, erasing, privileging, or ignoring. I suggest that such an approach has much to contribute to a feminist analysis of (state) power, including its expression through the law, by back-bound different modes of listening to three different occasions within the court and its antechambers. Rethinking the process of knowledge production within court ethnography in this way can provide a demonstration of the insights offered by a politics of listening that is alive to the affectual intensities that emerge out of and through our bodies’ engagements, coping with, negotiating over, and healing from the objectives that appear within these highly institutionalized and much powerful settings.
{"title":"Affectual intensities: toward a politics of listening in court ethnography","authors":"Sarah Klosterkamp","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2089096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2089096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Listening occurs in many ways in fieldwork situations, but it is not always consensual or without complexities. It is especially challenging in situations deeply embedded in institutional power, rendered and shaped by the law and its objectives. Yet, how listening differ within and between sites saturated with institutional knowledge remain still understudied. In this paper, I use my five-year fieldwork experience in German antiterrorism trials to illustrate how applying different politics of listening gradually deepened my understanding of what the trial and the wider legal process as a whole were making visible, erasing, privileging, or ignoring. I suggest that such an approach has much to contribute to a feminist analysis of (state) power, including its expression through the law, by back-bound different modes of listening to three different occasions within the court and its antechambers. Rethinking the process of knowledge production within court ethnography in this way can provide a demonstration of the insights offered by a politics of listening that is alive to the affectual intensities that emerge out of and through our bodies’ engagements, coping with, negotiating over, and healing from the objectives that appear within these highly institutionalized and much powerful settings.","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"1529 - 1551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79758536","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2089637
Ritwika Biswas
Abstract In this paper, I document my fieldwork struggles in Kolkata India, to propose some common guiding notions of flexibility in the field. I argue that in moments of uncertainty, ethical judgment of the researcher should be a central guiding force while figuring out what flexibility looks like in the field. By detailing how I improvised research methods and ethics in the field based on the context of place, everyday lives of people in global South, and the political moment when the research was conducted, I offer two insights in the paper. First, I suggest that, apart from focusing on the prospects of information collection, it is important to be mindful of the daily practices of the potential research participants and the context of place while choosing qualitative methods, if the place is known to us prior to the fieldwork. However, having this awareness might not ensure that all methods choices will work in the field. Therefore, second, during the process of adapting to challenges and (re)strategizing research methodologies, I argue that being flexible should be viewed as more in line with being ethical and maintaining good practice in the field. In doing so, this paper calls for a broader ethical understanding that prioritizes compassion towards participants as well as oneself, which might necessitate going beyond institutionally defined regulations, to create a more inclusive geographical knowledge production process.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2088332
Anuja Agrawal
{"title":"Moving for marriage: Inequalities, intimacy, and women’s lives in rural North India","authors":"Anuja Agrawal","doi":"10.1080/0966369X.2022.2088332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2088332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12513,"journal":{"name":"Gender, Place & Culture","volume":"238 1","pages":"742 - 745"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76747848","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2089095
Kumarini Silva
Abstract In this essay I consider three interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, to consider and unpack its potential use beyond the critique of comfort feminism itself. First, I approach comfort feminism as always intimately implicated in additional affective labor for non-white bodies. I then identify these non-white bodies as geo-bodies: geographically produced subjects/objects. It is a body that is always produced as a disruption to, or an impingement on, the geography and politics of an implicit normative whiteness that is both overt and covert, even in more progressive spaces, including feminist spaces. Ultimately, I consider what pleasure there might be in disrupting the normative despite the (triple) labor geo-bodies do, especially in contemporary politics. To do this, I turn to two separate, but interrelated incidents—one public, the other personal—to extrapolate my approach. In engaging with these examples, I consider the notion of discontainment—where the unhappiness (discontentment) from the disciplining (containment) results in the refusal of both—as a form of radical possibility for the geo-body, especially when occupying spaces—political, geographic, raced, and gendered—not intended for them. By focusing on the interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, my hope is that these negotiations between comfort/discomfort and containment/discontainment may potentially open interesting ways to rethink the relationship between space, race, affect, and politics.
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