Pub Date : 2022-06-05DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2073335
C. McIlwaine, Yara Evans
Abstract This paper explores some of the institutional and theoretical silences within debates on infrastructural violence with reference to migrant women survivors of gendered violence. Drawing from feminist thinking around structural and symbolic oppression, it develops the notion of gendered infrastructural violence to help understand how migrant women survivors navigate statutory and non-statutory institutions when seeking support. Empirically, the paper elucidates how diverse Brazilian migrant women in London negotiate multiple forms of passive and active infrastructural violence played out in terms of xenophobia, discrimination and a hostile immigration environment. Such experiences can dissuade them from reporting due to actual and perceived fear of further violence being perpetrated against them. While infrastructural violence perpetrated by an oppressive racial state can exacerbate Brazilian migrant women’s suffering of direct gendered abuse, migrant and/or feminist organisations provide invaluable support and an essential protective bulwark. Yet these experiences are mediated differently depending on women’s social locations in terms of intersecting race, class, occupational and immigration status and language competencies.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-03DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2081133
M. Baumann
Abstract This intervention considers how the writings of María Lugones, a philosopher of feminist decolonial theory, might shape a callejera [streetwalker] feminist decolonial methodology and what such a methodology might look like in practice. I describe how a callejera methodology foments deeper relationality by highlighting as methodological tools three of Lugones’ concepts: resisting ↔ oppressing, the collective and tantear en la oscuridad. To ground the theory and illustrate possibilities of deeper relationality offered by a callejera methodology, I reflect on on-going research with Colombian collectives actively negotiating experiences of indigeneity and womanhood in relation to histories of colonial and more recent armed violence, as well as ongoing state disinvestment. I make three contributions. First, I suggest that integrating an intersectional analytic of ‘both/and’ with the complex fluidity between Lugones’ concept of resisting ↔ oppressing permits scholars to better understand the negotiation of multiple, intermeshed identities and oppressions, social inequality and power relations in relation to colonial histories and presents. Second, I encourage geographers to embrace a decolonial lens attentive to the relationality between and among collectives, from which many acts of resistance begin. Finally, I consider how a callejera methodology considers coalitional work as central to the research process. Such work embraces difficulty, discomfort and messy relationality often negotiated as if walking blindly through the dark (tantear). I conclude by arguing that geographers’ relationally-based research can strengthen feminist decolonial thought in our attention to spatial and temporal scalar differences of place and our commitment to understanding contextually differentiated navigations of identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-03DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2083588
Kristians Zalāns, Kārlis Lakševics, I. Mileiko
Abstract Institutional actors in urban areas in Latvia are increasingly concerned about reducing violence on multiple scales and temporalities. Imagining such achievements, however, often too easily focuses on the aesthetics of security and infrastructure in public space that obscure the social causes of violence and effects this has on unequal development and social marginalization. Drawing on fieldwork on practices of domestic violence prevention in three Latvian urban areas during the autumn and winter of 2019, this paper examines how the geographical imagination of where violence resides connects violence prevention and spatial development as projects of European modernisation in post-Soviet space. We identify four spatial fields most often associated with violence: (1) neighbourhoods and infrastructural elements, (2) dark and isolated spaces, (3) spaces associated with intoxication, and (4) private spaces. We analyse the most common individual and institutional strategies for violence prevention in each of these fields, noting the logics of dispossession, surveillance, and connectivity behind them. We show how gendered practices and disciplining are emphasised on an individual level, while spatial fixes to violence in public space often focus on men’s violence against men. All in all, we show how violence prevention figures in imagining living in ‘European’ spatial and institutional infrastructural regimes.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2080644
Greggor Mattson
Abstract One longstanding explanation for the scarcity of lesbian bars in the United States is the lack of women’s ownership of durable spaces. This study interviewed 15 women owners of lesbian and LGBTQ bars to understand how they conceptualize the queer social spaces they control. Whether they owned a lesbian bar in a big city with a gayborhood or an ‘everybody’ gay bar serving a rural region, no owners prioritized women’s-only places, and all actively refused them. Many nevertheless reported practices to prioritize women in their spaces. Women’s ownership of LGBTQ spaces thus does not produce women’s-only spaces, even in self-described lesbian bars. These findings have three implications for our understandings of the spatial organization of lesbian and LGBTQ socializing. They shed light on the contested decline of women-only spaces, including the congruence between all-gender straight-integrated business philosophies and places that have survived the ‘great lesbian bar die-off’. They underscore the dramatic shift towards all-gender mixed LGBTQ spaces and the decline of gender-segregated socializing. Findings also raise the possible necessity for ‘time-space strategies’ of ephemeral placemaking practices even in erstwhile lesbian spaces due to the erasure faced by lesbians in straight-integrated spaces. Together, these findings underscore the necessary tension in lesbian geographies between a focus on durable places and ephemeral placemaking due to economic and spatial marginalization, time-space strategies that may increasingly be needed by all LGBTQ people in increasingly straight-integrated spaces.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2080645
Carolina Valente Cardoso
Abstract Informed by an ethnographic study on the recent Portuguese work migration to Angola, this article starts from the observation that a specific type of intimate relations between migrants and hosts was subject to intense social scrutiny within the migrant community: the one composed by middle-aged Portuguese men and younger Angolan women. This type of relation or, more precisely, the chatter it generated among Portuguese migrants, serves here as entry point to think about the discursive remodulation of white masculinities in the migratory context. Building on literature on post/colonialism, cross-border intimacy, and the interrelation between international mobilities and masculinities, I interrogate what race, nationality, economic class and age did to the social (re)construction of what it means to be a (white/Portuguese) man in this particular time-space. I further argue that the identity configuration as white Portuguese is constructed as meaningful in relation to three subject positions – Portuguese/white women, Angolan/black women and Angolan/black men – that play either a complementary or a contrapuntal role with it. The article makes two main points: that the chatter analysed hints at the masculinizing effect of contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola; and that this revalorization of white/Portuguese masculinities is done with an eye on the past, i.e. on colonial scripts and imaginaries.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-30DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2081670
Barnali Sarkar
Abstract This research explores the reconfiguration of intersex (hijra) home and identity in relation to human-nonhuman interdependence as represented in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017). Anjum, the intersex protagonist of the novel, receives humiliation and experiences homelessness for her biological sex ambiguity and nonconforming gender performances in a society founded upon gendered binaries. This study focuses on the complex ways in which Anjum, as a human Other, resolves her gender ambiguity by adopting a cosmopolitan pluralist awareness of self and place in the age of neoliberal development. Since dualisms, constructed along socio-cultural coordinates, such as man/woman, humans/nonhumans, human/human Others, and nature/culture, among others, are integral to the experiences of vulnerability, alienation and marginalization, the reconceptualization of home and identity as plural, accommodating social relations among different human groups and between humans and nonhumans, acts as a strategy, as the study will argue, to alleviate the sense of Otherness. Moreover, drawing on cultural geographical approach to the spatiality of home, mediated by social echelons of gender and class, and bioregional cosmopolitan epistemology of pluralist community-based identity, grounded in human–nonhuman correlations, the study will explore the way a sense of place can be created in a bioregion that ensures agentic participation of human and nonhuman groups in the neoliberal project of development, negating class, gender, as well as species dualisms.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-26DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2069685
D. Mustafa, A. Rehman, Komal Raja, Aisha Mughal
Abstract Transgender bodies very effectively undermine social norms of gender binaries. We use a case study of transgender people in the twin cities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad in Pakistan to understand how social violence, middle class morality and relations to the state are embodied in transgender bodies. While in pre-colonial times the transgender people in South Asia were mandarins of the empire, during colonial and post-colonial times they have been reduced to the role of mendicants. We find that the research participants’ notions of a transgender identity are contradictory, in that they draw upon the idea of a feminine soul in a male body, but simultaneously they also consider it a constant process of becoming through deed. In urban Pakistan, it is through violent encounters with transgender bodies that toxic masculinities are relationally enacted. We argue, however, that transgender bodies also hold an emancipatory promise to bodies imprisoned in toxic masculinity.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2075328
J. Tyner
Abstract Through a reading of H.G. Wells’ nineteenth-century dystopian novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, I draw on the concept of the monstrous feminine in an attempt to rethink transhumanism in the Anthropocene and subsequently contribute to the theorization of ‘gestational geographies’. More precisely, I find in Wells’ speculative fiction an opportunity to think through the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality as mediated in broader reproductive politics. To that end, my objectives are two-fold. First, I interrogate the (re)productive labors of Moreau, that is, the physical work performed by the vivisectionist and the intent of his experimentations. In so doing I underscore the political economy of Moreau’s activities and emphasize the imbrication of racial capitalism, colonialism, and slavery. Next, I recast the subject-position of Moreau. Here, I argue that Moreau embodies a perverse form of the monstrous feminine as he attempts to replace the maternal with the machine, a masculinist appropriation of the vicissitudes of reproduction for the purpose of rational biological production. By way of conclusions, I argue that Moreau, similar to contemporary transhumanists, sought to perfect upon evolution and to eliminate the indeterminacy and unpredictability of sexual reproduction and, to that end, Moreau personifies the desire of a masculinist science centered on the sphere of production to coopt women’s productive capabilities.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2072816
Prisca Gayles
Abstract A recurring experience for many Black women in Buenos Aires is the assumption that they are ‘prostitutes’. This article examines how assumptions that violate the black feminine body by assigning it stigmatized roles become trivialized and normalized in Argentina, a nation many Argentines claim is devoid of antiblack racism. I draw from the concepts of ‘bodily territorialization’, ‘space invaders’, and ‘overdetermined nominative properties’, as conceptualized by feminist scholars, to analyse assumptions about Black women in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My analysis entails a critical reading of cultural texts and images, blog posts, interview data, and autoethnographic accounts. My data show that the territorialization of Black women is rooted in colonial histories and contemporarily reproduced through misrecognitions. I argue that such a reading offers a decolonial feminist vantage point from which to explicate the processes by which ‘overdetermined nominative properties’ of Black women become trivialized and normalized in Argentina.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2072815
Iiris Kestilä
Abstract This article examines the ways in which technologies of power, and their operation in and through spaces, constitute ‘deviance’ in central cases on homosexuality of the European Court of Human Rights. To do this, the article deploys two concepts from Michel Foucault: heterotopia and panopticon. The European Court of Human Rights has sometimes been accused of dealing with cases relating to homosexuality in terms of the public/private dichotomy. Both heterotopia and panopticon question this division and show that this division is not as clear as is sometimes portrayed. While spatial arrangements affect the ways in which an individual is defined as ‘deviant’, the spatial analysis also illustrates the ways in which legal cases can be considered heterotopic themselves, this way contributing also to the discussions about the relationship between law and disciplinary power.
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