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Gendered Mobilities

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Cresswell, Tim, ed. 2008. Gendered Mobilities. 1st Edition. London: Routledge.

Author: Tim Cresswell

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Summary:
Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this volume focuses on the intersection of mobility, social justice and gender. The authors reflect on five highly interdependent mobilities that form and reform social life. (Summary from Taylor & Francis Group) 
 
Table of Contents:
1. Gendered Mobilities: Towards an Holistic Understanding
Tim Cresswell, Tanu Priya Uteng
 
PART 1: DIALOGICAL REFLECTIONS
 
2. Mobility as Capability
David Kronlid
 
3. Embodying the Space Between: Unmapping Writing about Racialised and Gendered Mobilities
 
4. Motherhood, Risk and Everyday Mobilities
Lesley Murray
 
5. ‘Mobile Belonging’: Exploring Transnational Feminist Theory and Online Connectivity
 
6. Gendering Mobility: Insights into the Construction of Spatial Concepts
Nadine Cattan
 
7. The Culture of Automobility: How Interacting Drivers Relate to Legal Standards and to Each Other in Traffic
 
PART 2: HOW AND WHY ARE MOBILITIES GENDERED?
 
8. Gender Still Matters: Mobility Aspirations among European Scientists Working Abroad
 
9. ‘I’m More Sexy Here’: Erotic Subjectivities of Female Tourists in the ‘Sexual Paradise’ of the Costa Rican Caribbean
 
10. A Spatial Exploration of the Accessibility of Low-Income Women: Chengdu, China and Chennai, India
 
11. Gendered Mobilities in Developing Countries: The Case of (Urban) Uganda
 
12. Gender Differences in the Influences of Urban Structure on Daily Travel
 
13. Daily Mobility of Men and Women – A Barometer of Gender Equality?
Randi Hjorthol
 
PART 3: SEEKING GROUNDS FOR FUTURE POLICIES
 
14. Gender and the Social Usage of Mobile Technologies: From Information Society Policies to Everyday Practices
 
15. Gender Mainstreaming in Swedish Transport Policy
Merritt Polk
 
16. Are We There Yet? Women and Transport Revisited
Clara Greed
 
EPILOGUE
 
17. Gendered Mobilities: Epilogue
Mimi Sheller
 

Topics: Feminisms, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Justice, Race

Year: 2008

‘Women with No Femininity’: Gender, Race and Nation-Building in the James Bay Project.

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Desbiens, Caroline. 2004. “‘Women with No Femininity’: Gender, Race and Nation-Building in the James Bay Project.” Political Geography 23 (3): 347–66.

Author: Caroline Desbiens

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This paper seeks to gender the nation-state through an analysis of the links between gender, colonial history and governmentality in Québec’s James Bay region. In the early 1970s, a new governmental framework was introduced in Northern Québec with the construction of a large-scale hydroelectric complex. The James Bay project coincided with an intensive period of nation-building by Francophones in the province, which led to the 1980 referendum on separation from Canada. Looking at the space of the labor camps, I explore the differential positioning of men and women in dominant narratives of the nation-state. While both men and women who worked in James Bay were cast as heroes of the nation, everyday geographies in the work camps reveal several axes of difference on the basis of gender, race and class. By looking at the production of these geographies and the dual positioning of women as both “outcasts” and “daughters” of the patriarchal state, I call for a broader understanding of difference in the elaboration of a feminist political geography.

Keywords: Gender, labor, colonial history, nation-building, political geography

Topics: Class, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Feminisms, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Infrastructure, Energy, Race Regions: Americas, North America Countries: Canada

Year: 2004

The Lived Experience of Food Sovereignty: Gender, Indigenous Crops and Small-Scale Farming in Mtubatuba, South Africa

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Ngcoya, Mvuselelo, and Narendran Kumarakulasingam. 2017. “The Lived Experience of Food Sovereignty: Gender, Indigenous Crops and Small-Scale Farming in Mtubatuba, South Africa.” Journal of Agrarian Change 17 (3): 480–96.

Authors: Mvuselelo Ngcoya, Narendran Kumarakulasingam

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Food sovereignty has become a powerful concept to critique the dominant global food regime. Although it has not taken root in South Africa as fiercely as elsewhere, we use this concept to explore how one small-scale farmer seeks to wean herself from the dominant food system in the small town of Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal. Using ethnographic methods and in-depth interviews about this single intense and extreme case, we explore this farmer’s commitment and argue that it constitutes what we call the ‘lived experience of food sovereignty’. If food sovereignty is concerned with small-farmer control over decisions about food cultivation, distribution and consumption, we examine this farmer’s praxis and explore the obstacles she faces. These include gendered and racialized agrarian questions, land struggles, social reproduction and perceptions of her indigenous crops. We also examine the networks, knowledge, systems and methods that have allowed her to cultivate her self-reliance.

Keywords: indigenous crops, food sovereignty, gender, race, South Africa, small-scale farming

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Topics: Agriculture, Gender, Women, Race, Security, Food Security Regions: Africa, Southern Africa Countries: South Africa

Year: 2017

Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics

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Power, Marilyn. 2004. “Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics.” Feminist Economics 10 (3): 3–19.

Author: Marilyn Power

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The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term ‘‘social provisioning’’ to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of caring and unpaid labor as fundamental economic activities; use of well-being as a measure of economic success; analysis of economic, political, and social processes and power relations; inclusion of ethical goals and values as an intrinsic part of the analysis; and interrogation of differences by class, race-ethnicity, and other factors. The paper then provides brief illustrations of the use of this methodology in analyses of US welfare reform,gender and development, and feminist ecological economics.

Keywords: social provisioning, welfare reform, gender and development, feminist political economics, feminist ecological economics, feminist methodology

Topics: Class, Development, Economies, Care Economies, Feminist Economics, Ethnicity, Feminisms, Feminist Political Economy, Gender, Race Regions: Americas, North America Countries: United States of America

Year: 2004

Locating Ecofeminism in Encounters with Food and Place

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Mallory, Chaone. 2013. “Locating Ecofeminism in Encounters with Food and Place.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26 (1): 171–89.

Author: Chaone Mallory

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This article explores the relationship between ecofeminism, food, and the philosophy of place. Using as example my own neighborhood in a racially integrated area of Philadelphia with a thriving local foods movement that nonetheless is nearly exclusively white and in which women are the invisible majority of purchasers, farmers, and preparers, the article examines what ecofeminism contributes to the discussion of racial, gendered, classed discrepancies regarding who does and does not participate in practices of locavorism and the local foods movement more broadly. Ecofeminism, it is argued here, with its focus on the ways that race, class, gender, and place are ontologically entangled, helps to highlight the ways identity and society are made and re-made through our encounters with food.

Keywords: ecofeminism, local foods, gender and raced embodiment, co-ops, community supported agriculture, philosophy of place

Topics: Agriculture, Class, Feminisms, Ecofeminism, Livelihoods, Race Regions: Americas, North America Countries: United States of America

Year: 2013

Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism

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Gaard, Greta. 2011. “Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism.” Feminist Formations 23 (2): 26–53. 

Author: Greta Gaard

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Formulated in the 1980s and gaining prominence in the early 1990s, by the end of that decade ecofeminism was critiqued as essentialist and effectively discarded. Fearing their scholarship would be contaminated by association with the term “eco-feminism,” feminists working on the intersections of feminism and environmentalism thought it better to rename their approach. Thirty years later, current developments in allegedly new fields such as animal studies and naturalized epistemology are “discovering” theoretical perspectives on interspecies relations and standpoint theory that were developed by feminists and ecofeminists decades ago. What have we lost by jettisoning these earlier feminist and ecofeminist bodies of knowledge? Are there features of ecofeminism that can helpfully be retrieved, restoring an intellectual and activist history, and enriching current theorizing and activisms? By examining the historical foundations of ecofeminism from the 1980s onward, this article uncovers the roots of the antifeminist backlash against ecofeminism in the 1990s, peeling back the layers of feminist and environmentalist resistance to ecofeminism’s analyses of the connections among racism, sexism, classism, colonialism, speciesism, and the environment. Recuperating ecofeminist insights of the past thirty years provides feminist foundations for current liberatory theories and activisms. 

Keywords: animal studies, antifeminism, ecofeminism, essentialism, material feminism

Topics: Class, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Environment, Feminisms, Ecofeminism, Race

Year: 2011

Ecofeminism and Natural Disasters: Sri Lankan Women Post-Tsunami

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Banford, Alyssa, and Cameron Kiely Froude. 2015. “Ecofeminism and Natural Disasters: Sri Lankan Women Post-Tsunami.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 16 (2): 170–87.

Authors: Alyssa Banford, Cameron Kiely Froude

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Women experience a host of negative consequences during and after a natural disaster. A variety of feminist theories have been used to explore this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to posit the need for an ecofeminist perspective on analyzing women’s vulnerabilities post- natural disaster. The authors will discuss the history and branches of ecofeminism, highlighting their utility in exploring the intersection of race, class, and gender in the aftermath of disaster. An ecofeminist analysis of Sri Lankan women’s vulnerability in the wake of the 2004 tsunami will be used to illustrate the utility of the theory. Implications of using ecofeminism in natural disaster research will be discussed.

Keywords: ecofeminism, natural disaster, tsunami, Sri Lanka

Topics: Class, Environment, Environmental Disasters, Feminisms, Ecofeminism, Gender, Women, Race Regions: Asia, South Asia Countries: Sri Lanka

Year: 2015

Material Feminisms

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Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan Hekman, eds. 2008. Material Feminisms. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Authors: Stacy Alaimo, Susan Hekman

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Summary:
Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies about the body. These wide-ranging essays grapple with topics such as the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, the impact of disability experience, and the complex interaction between nature and culture in traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina. By insisting on the importance of materiality, this volume breaks new ground in philosophy, feminist theory, cultural studies, science studies, and other fields where the body and nature collide. (Summary from Indiana University Press)
 
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory
Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman
 
1. Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance
Elizabeth Grosz
 
2. On Not Becoming Man: The Materialist Politics of Unactualized Potential
Claire Colebrook
 
3. Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism
Susan Hekman
 
4. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
Karen Barad
 
5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms
Donna J. Haraway
 
6. Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina
Nancy Tuana
 
7. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along?
Vicki Kirby
 
8. Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature
Stacy Alaimo
 
9. Landscape, Memory, and Forgetting: Thinking through (My Mother's) Body and Place
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
 
10. Disability Experience on Trial
Tobin Siebers
 
11. How Real Is Race? 
Michael Hames-García
 
12. From Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism
Suzanne Bost
 
13. Organic Empathy: Feminism, Psychopharmaceuticals and the Embodiment of Depression
Elizabeth A. Wilson
 
14. Cassie's Hair
Susan Bordo

Topics: Environment, Environmental Disasters, Feminisms, Gender, Race

Year: 2008

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