Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of Janice Monk
Redaktion: Datta, Anindita; Oberhauser, Ann M.; Momsen, Janet

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Produktbeschreibung

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co- edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000780246
• Artikelnr.: 65643603

Autorenporträt

Anindita Datta is Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Delhi and the current Chair of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. Her work focuses on gendered and epistemic violence, indigenous feminisms, spaces of resistance and geographies of care. A member of several international editorial boards and collaborations such as the NORAD, Linnaeus Palme and Erasmus Mundus programmes, Anindita is committed to feminist mentoring and building transformative networks of care across differences. Her recent books include Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes and the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geography (co-editor). Janet Momsen was a founding member of the Gender Commission in 1988 and was Chair from then until 1996, continuing as Treasurer until 2006. She is Emerita Professor of Geography, University of California, Davis. Her research is mainly on gender and agricultural development. She has also taught in England, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Africa. She has published 17 books, founded and is current Editor of the Routledge series on International Studies of Women and Place. Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University and holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University. Her research focuses on feminist economic geography, gender and globalization, feminist pedagogy, and critical development studies with an emphasis on rural economic strategies in Appalachia and sub-Saharan Africa. Her publications include Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context and Global Perspectives on Gender and Space. Oberhauser is a long-time member of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of
Janice Monk
PART I: Gender and Feminist Geographies: Perspectives from around the
World
2. Connecting Distant Academic Landscapes, Inspiring Researchers: Jan
Monk's Role in Developing Gender Geography and Geohumanities in Spain
3. Crossing Borders, Exotic Women and the Challenge of Teaching Gender
in World Regional Geography and Area Studies Courses
4. Centering Fireside Knowledge and Utu Feminisms: On Writing Feminist
Margins from the Margins
5. The Value of Feminist Scholarship: Renegotiating Spaces for Gender
and Geography in Post-Communist Romania
6. Women in Geography: The Case of the International Geographical Union
PART II: Career Trajectories of Women Geographers - Strategies to
Survive and Thrive
7. "Making Zonia Known": Discussing Baber's "Peace Symbols" (1948)
8. Janice Monk and Evelyn Stokes: Two Women Geographers from Down Under
Break New Ground
9. The 'Excluded Half of the Human' in Brazilian Geography: The Life
Course of Women in a Scientific Field
10. Being (From) There: Antipodean Reflections on Feminist Geography
11. Valuing Mentoring: Jan Monk's role in Creating a Community of Support
for Early Career Researchers
12. Students' Evaluation of Instruction: A Neoliberal Managerial Tool
Against Faculty Diversity
PART III: Gendered Geographies of the Life Course: Work and Everyday
Life
13. Migrant Women's Everyday Lives and Work Burdens: Insights from
Kusumpur Pahari, Delhi
14. Challenging Instability: Women's Multigenerational Narratives of Work
in the Margins of Central and Eastern Europe
15. Life Course in the New Processes of Re-Ruralization in Spain
16. Independence and Entrepreneurship Among Arab Muslim Rural and Bedouin
Women in Israel
PART IV: Gender and Environmental Concerns: Change, Crisis and
Recovery
17. Social Change in Griffith, NSW, Australia: Discourses of Indigeneity,
Identity, Justice and Well-Being over Fifty Years
18. Gender and the Food History of the Caribbean: The Case of Cassava in
Barbados
19. COVID-19 and Tourism in the Island Pacific: Gender Tribulations and
Transformations in Different Seas
20. Women and Waste Recycling in the State of São Paulo, Brazil
21. Women's Stories of Loss and Recovery from Climatic Events in the
Pacific Islands