Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2280976
David J. Gilchrist, Grace Brooks
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Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2267759
James Gardiner, Hayley Singer, Jennifer Hamilton, Astrida Neimanis, Mindy Blaise
This article argues that reading groups are a collective field building and research method in Feminist Environmental Humanities, an interdisciplinary scholarly area at the intersections of feminist social justice and environmental concerns. We begin by historicising three Australian Feminist Environmental reading groups (COMPOSTING Feminisms, Eco Feminist Fridays, The Ediths) within a longer feminist tradition, then demonstrate how they respond to declining research funding in the neoliberal university and accelerating ecological crisis. Drawing on survey data, we first thematically code and analyse the results to categorise the groups’ functions and impacts. Departing from more traditional data analysis, we then develop a method of interpretation called ‘transversal poetics’. Via a captioned photo essay, we unpack how transversal poetics yields new ways of reading the data. We show how this practice-led, creative method reveals additional themes and crystallises the reading groups’ key ethos: building situated communities of care across difference. Overall, the research underscored that while never free of ethical tensions and compromises, Feminist Environmental reading groups can be a playful, affirmative and generative method for field building and research.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2267178
Jane Simon, Sophia Maalsen, Lilian Chee, Cathy Smith
ABSTRACTHome is a vital site and subject for feminist research. This introduction to the special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on ‘Home’ begins by reflecting on domestic spaces and routines as they unfold through contemporary art and performance. This reflection maps home as both a material space and an imaginary: a complex realm of constraints and possibilities. The discussion on this complexity of home is then situated within the contemporary context of the gendered experience of housing, from its precarity to its porous boundaries, ideas which are engaged with throughout the special issue. Taken together, the articles in this special issue show how questions of creativity, care, labour and technology, all pivot around home as a significant and (still) politicised site for feminist thought. Research into gender, housing and homelessness, and human-centric ideas about home also provide key insights into home as an unfixed, relational and political space.KEYWORDS: Homehousingcarearthouseworkpaid labourarchitecture Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2267758
Sally Gardner
In this article I argue that Jane Campion’s film The Power of the Dog (2021), can be read through Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy (1967); and that Campion’s films more generally can be viewed insightfully in a Nietzschean frame. Campion’s films are often concerned with ancient mythic themes and forces that continue to find expression in later times and places. I argue that Campion is also a feminist filmmaker who questions Hollywood narrative cinema from a subject position of difference, from within its genres but re-writing and re-valuing the values of its ‘plots’ (Gillett, Sue. 2004. Views From Beyond the Mirror: The Films of Jane Campion. The Moving Image 7. Australia: Australian Teachers of Media, Australian Film Institute and Deakin University). Campion explores abiding psycho-social phenomena and needs – here, masculinity, men’s relations with ‘mother’ – by drawing on mythological figures in service to the present in original ways and as a female director. I draw on Hélène Deutsch’s (1969. A Psychoanalytic Study of The Myth of Dionysus and Apollo: Two Variants of the Son-Mother Relationship. The Freud Anniversary Lecture Series, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. New York: International Universities Press Inc.) analysis and discussion of Apollonian and Dionysian mythologies in support of this argument.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2263909
Liu Xin
Wealth is often seen as an object of desire. That is, it is what desire desires and it comes to represent desire. The accumulation of wealth is commonly considered excessive and coming at the cost of environmental and corporeal needs. Such an account of wealth follows an either/or logic that produces a set of oppositional terms such as nature or culture, desire or need, wealth or necessity, luxury or survival. This article explores questions of wealth and desire via the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians. It uses the lens of ornament to zoom in on how the film depicts the relationship between the natural and the artificial, winning and losing, and subject and object. It proposes a feminist ornamental approach to wealth and desire that reworks the either/or logic and the oppositional terms that undergird it. It argues that this approach allows for an analysis of the relation between race, gender, nature, style, wealth and desire beyond one of commodification or recognition, ownership or dispossession.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2255931
Saartje Tack
Diversity and inclusion, decolonising the curriculum, and intersectionality have become buzzwords in higher education, with questions raised about what counts as knowledge and whose knowledge counts in teaching contexts. Despite efforts being made to democratise the curriculum through reading lists and lecture content, pedagogy itself remains largely unchanged. In this article, I provide a theoretical reflection on my experiences of teaching an introductory gender studies unit at an Australian university at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The pandemic intensified existing inequities amongst students, not only outside but also inside the classroom. It is against this backdrop that I swapped the initially set research essay in the unit for a manifesto writing assignment. In this article, I explore the ways in which the manifesto assignment provided an opportunity to take seriously bell hooks’ vision of engaged pedagogy that views education as the practice of freedom and discuss the ways in which it came to represent an example of feminist praxis that assists in fostering a more inclusive classroom, grounded in feminism’s liberatory project.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2244158
L. Allen, C. Roberts, R. Williamson, M. Rasmussen
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Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2243646
G. Coombs, Kelly Hussey-Smith, L. Hjorth, Julienne van Loon
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Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2243649
Emma Ischinsky, Daria Tisch
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