Newsletter No. 67
May. 1. 2022
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Message from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
Warm greetings and felicitations on the tricenary year of the Commission on Gender and Geography!
This occasion is an excellent time to recall the history of our Commission and the struggles of senior feminist geographers in establishing the field. In the course of these last decades, the Commission on Gender and Geography has marked itself out as a vibrant, inclusive body. Membership to the Commission has grown exponentially, and its reach is now indeed worldwide. Since its inception, the Commission has contributed to furthering gender and feminist geography through international and regional meetings, collaborations and seminal publications. At the IGU annual meeting at Krackow in 2014, we also received the award for Best Commission. As many as four members of the Commission have been recognized for their scholarly contributions to Geography through the IGU Laureat d’Honneur - Janice Monk in 2012, Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon in 2016, Robyn Longhurst in 2018 and most recently Joos Droogleever Fortuijn in 2020. Together with our vibrant Young and Emerging Scholars (YES) group, we continue to enlarge the space for gender and feminist geographies through our publications, podcasts, collaborations and conversations, overcoming the friction of distance, difference and diversity. The tricenary of the Commission is an occasion to reflect upon our journey and the ways forward. I hope you will join us at our special tricenary sessions at the IGU meeting in Paris and pre-conference in Barcelona to mark this occasion.
I am also delighted to announce a festschrift in honour of Professor Janice Monk- friend and mentor to many of us. Jan worked tirelessly with Janet Momsen, Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon and others to establish the Commission in 1992 and a network of feminist geographers, including many of us from underrepresented regions and communities. The festschrift honouring her contributions is titled ‘Bridging Worlds, Building Feminist Geographies: Essays In Honour of Janice Monk, edited by Janet Momsen, myself and Ann M Oberhauser. The volume contains 21 chapters on themes Jan contributed significantly to, written by over 45 scholars from across the world who have worked closely and been inspired by Jan.
Our Commission is pleased to be part of the third international Feminist Geography Conference, ‘Pushing Boundaries’, planned virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado at Boulder, June 15-17, 2022. Following the hub and node model, the conference will have events in UK, Uganda, India, Canada and Ecuador with various modes of participation, both in-person and virtual. See https://www.femgeographyconference.org/
The Covid -19 pandemic, now in its third year, continues to shape our spaces, underlining the value of collaboration and cooperation. Yet geopolitical, social, economic and vaccine-related borders continue to be drawn, dividing us, disordering lives, circumcising access, agency and participation. As we approach the centenary of the IGU with a focal theme “A time for geographers”, it is time to once again reflect upon the connectedness of our lives, cartographies of exclusion and access, the value of mutual aid and the roles of critical scholarship and feminist dissidence in possibilizing more inclusive worlds.
Wishing you meaningful deliberations at the upcoming conferences and in solidarity with all of you!
Anindita
News from around the world
The international conference of our Commission Crisis, Recovery and Gender: Feminist Spatial Analysis (previous to the Paris Congre), organized by the Gender and Geography Group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona , will be held in Barcelona on the 14th and 15th July . For more details see the Draft Program:
Congratulations to Maria Anne Fitzgerald who has been awarded the Gender, Place and Culture Annual International Conference Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2022. The award comes with a cash prize to support attendance at an international conference to present a paper on a topic related to Feminist Geography. She will be presenting a paper titled 'From gender wallah to feminist geographer: Reflections on ‘doing’ Gender and Feminist Geography in India' at the UGI-IGU Centennial Congress 2022 in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2022.
Congratulations to Sybille Bauriedl, Anke Strüver and Karin Schwiter who were awarded a trinational research grant by the German, the Austrian and the Swiss National Research Foundations for their project "Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of labour and intersectional inequalities in care services (TICS)“. From 2022 to 2025, they will build on feminist geographies as a theoretical framework to explore how the rise of the digitally mediated care services in the platform economy transform everyday lives and inequalities in cities.
The feminist geography commission of the French National Geography Committee organised a gathering during three days at the beginning of April. The "Rencontres de Géographies Féministes" took place in the countryside close to Limoges in the center of France. 40 to 50 geographers participated in the events: workshops, screenings, theater performance and poetry reading. Here are the titles:
De la libération de la parole à l’énonciation féministe : articuler l’intime et le scientifique
Charline Machin, Florence Mury, Gabrielle Saumon
Tisser des liens par-delà les frontières
Katja Girr, Jenny Künkel, Marion Tillous
Politiser nos bibliographies. Épistémologies féministes et micro politiques de lecture, d’écriture et de citation en géographie
Mégane Fernandez, Marion Sbriglio
Travailler sur les violences de genre en géographie
Noémie Calixte, Manon Marguerit, Marion Tillous
Le militantisme féministe et queer en Limousin : ce que le territoire fait à l'action collective
Les Affolé·es de la frange, Colleuses de Limoges, FestiMeufs, Pas Sages à Gays, Plannings familiaux du Limousin, SOS Homophobie.
Pédagogies féministes
Laura Péaud, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch
Regards de femmes sur une mine : mettre en évidence l’intersectionnalité de l’extractivisme
Frédérique Blot, Raphaël Prouteau
Autodéfense universitaire : sur/vivre le quotidien et les expériences du terrain
Katja Girr
Penser nos conditions de travail dans l’Enseignement supérieur et la recherche
Stéphanie Tabois, Marius Chevallier
New books
Autor*innenkollektiv Geographie und Geschlecht (ed.) (2021) Handbuch Feministische Geographien. Opladen, Verlag Barbara Budrich
Azmi, Fazeeha, Viluthu Jeevasuthan Subramanium and Equal Participatory Research Stakeholders/ Participants (2022) Forging Our Path: Formulating Organic Definitions for Women Heads of Households, an Equal Participatory Research by Viluthu. Viluthu, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Bain, A. and L. Peake (eds.) (2022) Urbanization in a Global Context. 2nd edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press
Carbon Brief (2022) Scientists React: What Are the Key New Insights from the IPCC’s WG2 Report? UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report on Adaptation
Christou, A. and E. Kofman (2022) Gender and Migration. IMISCOE Short Reader
Doan, P. and L. Johnston (eds.) (2022) Rethinking Transgender Identities: reflections from around the globe. London, Routledge
Ip, Penn Tsz Ting, Zhang Yu and Liu Xi (2021) The Ordinary Women: Qualitative Research on Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai. Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Ip, Penn Tsz Ting Ip (2022) Pandemic Lessons From Shanghai’s Socialist Housing Projects. Sixth Tone
Komposch, Nora, Nicholas Pohl and Yvonne Riaño (2021) Worker cooperatives’ Potential for migrant women‘s self- Empowerment. Insights from a case study in New York City, nccr - on the move. Working Paper nr. 29. University of Neuchâtel
Nageer, S. and L. Peake (on behalf of Red Thread) (2021) Guyana’s Civil Society Alternative Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: On Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Right of the Child in the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC) Guyana
Pineda J. and O. Rodríguez (2021) Trabajadoras del cuidado en la salud: crecimiento sin reconocimiento. Mucho camello, poco empleo: por qué el trabajo de las mujeres en Colombia es escaso, desvalorado y mal remunerado. Ediciones Uniandes
Pineda J., N. Franco, Nadia Fernanda Sanchez Gómez, Pilar Ochoa, Camila Casas and J. Morales (2021) Buenas prácticas hacia la equidad de género de organizaciones en Colombia. Ediciones Uniandes
Radcliff, Sarah A. (2022) Decolonizing Geography: an introduction. Cambridge, Polity Press
Recent articles and book chapters
Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Grace and Linda Peake (2021) Tiwa’s Morning. In: M. Lancione and C. McFarlane (eds.)The Handbook of Global Urbanism: Essays on the City and its Futures. London, Routledge
Albet, Abel and Maria-Dolors García-Ramon (2022) Critical approaches and the practice of Geography in Spain. In: Lawrence D. Berg, Ulrich Best, Mary Gilmartin and Henrik Gutzon Larsen (eds.) Placing Critical Geographies: Historical Geographies of Critical Geography. Abingdon/Nova York, Routledge, 246-264
Albuquerque, Rossana Maria Marinho and João Marcelo Brasileiro (2021) Espaço da Casa, Cenário da Morte: Uma Abordagem Interseccional sobre os Feminicídios no Estado do Piauí no Contexto da Pandemia, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 93 – 115
Bauriedl, S. (2022) Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der deutschen Geographie, Berichte Geographie und Landeskunde, 95, 97-112
Bhattacharyya, R. (2022) Conducting sensitive public health research in India [Video]. SAGE Research Methods Video: Research Ethics and Integrity(tutorial video). https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529791969 (preview link: https://methods.sagepub.com/video/conducting-sensitive-public-health-research-in-india?seq=4&fromsearch=true)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2021) Researching Street Sexual Harassment As a Public Health Problem in India. SAGE Research Methods [Video]: Medicine and Health (case study). https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781529778212 (preview link: https://methods.sagepub.com/video/researching-street-sexual-harassment-as-a-public-health-issue-in-india)
Caretta, M. A., B.A. Rothrock and N.P. Zegre (2022) Exploring Climate Change Perspectives. An Analysis of Undergraduate Students’ Place-Based Attachment in Appalachia, USA, Rural Sociology
Caretta, M.A., A. Mukherji, M. Arfanuzzaman, R.A. Betts, A. Gelfan, Y. Hirabayashi, T.K. Lissner, J. Liu, E. Lopez Gunn, R. Morgan, S. Mwanga, and S. Supratid (2022) Water. In: D.C. Pörtner, M. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem and B. Rama (eds.) Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change H.-O. Cambridge University Press
Castiblanco, S. and J. Pineda (2021) Female empowerment and community-based productive associations: a systematic literature review, Acta Colombiana de Psicología
Castro, Amanda Motta, Cristiane Troina Ferreira and Raylene Barbosa Moreira (2021) Mulheres: Organização, Resistência e Sobrevivência na Catação de Material Reciclável, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 19 – 38
Delicado-Moratalla, Lydia (2021) «El embarazo es una máquina, no una mujer» Deshumanización y sexismo misógino en el planteamiento favorable al 'trabajo gestacional’, Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies, 10, 41–50
Delicado-Moratalla, Lydia (2021) Los discursos y las prácticas de cosificación de las mujeres en la era de internet: las muñecas sexuales en el ciberespacio. In: T. Aránguez and O. Olariu (eds.) Feminismo Digital. Violencia contra las mujeres y brecha sexista en internet. Madrid, Dykinson, 486-503
Delicado-Moratalla, L. (2021) Extractivismo, expulsión y violencia patriarcal en la prostitución transnacional de nigerianas, Filanderas, Revista Interdisciplinar de Estudios Feministas, 6, 7–28
Doan, Petra and Lynda Johnston (2022) Introduction: Under, Beside and Beyond the Transgender Umbrella. In: P. Doan and L. Johnston (eds.) Rethinking Transgender Identities: Reflections from Across the Globe. London, Routledge
Ecker Y., M. Rowek and A. Strüver (2021) Care on Demand: Geschlechternormierte Arbeits- und Raumstrukturen in der plattformbasierten Sorgearbeit. In: M. Altenried et al. (eds.) Plattformkapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion. Münster, Westfälisches Dampfboot, 112–129
Ferreira, Maria Mary and Neuzeli Maria de Almeida Pinto (2021) Mulheres, Classe Social e Violência de Gênero em Tempos de Pandemia, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 130 – 145
Gomez, D. and J. Pineda (2021) Desarrollo económico local en clave de género. Repensando el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia. Ediciones Uniandes, 55-83
Junqueira, Telma Low Silva, Danielly Spósito, Cristina Azevedo and Mariana Tavares (2021) Desafios que Limitam e Fortalecem: Estratégias de Cuidado em uma Universidade Durante a Pandemia da Covid19, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 74 – 92
Koleth, Elsa and Cristina Temenos (2022) “Let them sing!” The paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy and urban scholarship, Urban Geography
Lowry A., R. Townsend, K. Petrie and L. Johnston (2022) ‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: An autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high performance athlete, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
Menegon, Valdenia Guimarães e Silva, Geyciele Quezia Dourado , Iasmin Talita Abreu Barros and Lígia Emanuela Costa Alves (2021) O BBB2021 e as Representações de Machismo, Racismo, Xenofobia e LGBTQfobia, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 116 – 129
Monte, Liana Maria Ibiapina do, Isabele Bandeira de Moraes D’Angelo, Giorge André Lando and Alessandro Pelópidas Ferreira de Queiroz (2021) Luta é um Substantivo Feminino: O Papel das Trabalhadoras de Saúde Nordestinas no Enfrentamento da COVID19, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero 12:2 (jul/dez), 56 – 73
Morrison, C.A., E. Woodbury, L. Johnston and R. Longhurst (2022) Everyday activisms: parental places and emotions of disability activism in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, Area
Mullings, B., K. Parizeau and L. Peake (2021) Mental Health, Geography and the Academy, In: D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R. Marston (eds.) The American Association of Geographers International Encyclopaedia of Geography. Malden, Oxford, John Wiley and Sons
Ortiz Guitart, Anna, Antonio López-Gay, Joan Sales-Favà and Miguel Solana-Solana (2021) La gentrificación desde una mirada de género: un ejemplo en Barcelona, Ciudad y Territorio (210), 945-962
Paiva, Elza Beatriz Barros de, Ana Paula Pereira Nabero and Breno de Oliveira Ferreira (2021) Violência Contra as Mulheres no Contexto da Pandemia de Covid19 no Norte do Brasil: Notas Sobre a Geografia Feminista, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 168 – 183
Peake, L. and G. Pratt (2021) Why women in cities matter, In: A. Bain and L. Peake (eds.) Urbanization in a Global Context. 2nd edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press
Peake, Linda, Elsa Koleth, darren patrick, Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz and Rajyashree N. Reddy (2021) A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban. Wiley
Peake, L. and E. Sheppard (2021) USA and Anglo-Canadian critical geographies, In: L. Berg, U. Best, M. Gilmartin and H. Larsen (eds.) Placing Critical Geography: Historical Geographies of Critical Geography. London, Routledge, 44-65
Pessoa, Brenna Galtierrez Fortes and Elaine Ferreira do Nascimento (2021) O Combate ao Feminicídio Político na Luta Antirracista: O Caso da Vereadora Marielle Franco, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 146 – 167
Pineda, J. and S. Castiblanco (2021) Informal entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment: The case of street vendors in urban Colombia, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
Pineda, J. (2021) Care Work: Professionalization and Valuation of Nurses and Nursing Assistants in Health and Old Age in Colombia. In: Care and Care Workers. A Latin American Perspective. Springer, 203-215
Radhuber, Isabella M. and Sarah A. Radcliffe (2022) Contested Sovereignties: Indigenous disputes over plurinational resource governance, Nature and Space
Razavi, Nasya (2020) Women in Cities: the Nexus between SDG 5 & SDG 11. In: The Encyclopedia of UN Sustainable Development Goals
Razavi, Nasya et al. (2022) Everyday Urbanisms in the Pandemic City: A Feminist Comparative Study of the Gendered Experiences of Covid-19 in Southern Cities, Social and Cultural Geography
Riaño, Yvonne (2021) Inégalité des chances entre femmes et hommes, entre migrants et non-migrants. Une perspective intersectionnelle, Terra Cognita, Swiss Journal of Integration and Migration, 38, 28-31
Riaño, Yvonne (2021) Understanding brain waste: Unequal opportunities for skills development between highly skilled women and men, migrants and nonmigrants, Population, Space and Place
Riaño, Yvonne (2021) Highly skilled migrant and non-migrant women and men: How do differences in quality of employment arise? Administrative Sciences 11:5
Rodrigues, Jessyka, Letícia Carolina Pereira Nascimento, Rafael Martins de Meneses and Valdenia Pinto de Sampaio Araújo (2021) Vidas Precárias de Travestis Negras: Uma Geografia do Machismo e da Transfobia em Parnaíba PI, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero 12:2 (jul/dez), 39-55
Rosenberg, Rae (2022) Political Entanglements: Practicing, Designing and Implementing Critical Trans Politics through Social Science Research, In: P. Doan and L. Johnston (eds.) Rethinking Transgender Identities: Reflections from Across the Globe. London, Routledge
Sandoz, Laure, Christina Mitmasser, Yvonne Riaño and Etienne Piguet (2021) A Review of transnational migrant entrepreneurship: Perspectives on unequal spatialities, Zeitschrift für Wirstchaftsgeographie: The German Journal of Economic Geography
Santos, Francisca Kananda Lustosa dos and Elaine Ferreira do Nascimento (2021) Educação Transgressora no Espaço Escolar: Considerações sobre Corpo em uma Perspectiva Interseccional, Revista Latino Americana De Geografia E Gênero, 12:2 (jul/dez), 6 - 18
Schwiter, Karin, Julia Nentwich and Marisol Keller (2021) Male privilege revisited: How men in female-dominated occupations notive and actively reframe privilege, Gender Work & Organization, 28:6, 2199-2216
Silva, Maria Joseli, Maria Rodó-Zárate and Marcio Jose Ornat (2022) Age, sexuality and intersectionalities: Spatial experiences of Brazilian travesties and transwomen aging process and the sex market, In: P. Doan and L. Johnston (eds.) Rethinking Transgender Identities: Reflections from Across the Globe. London, Routledge
Silva, Maria Joseli, Marcio Jose Ornat, Vinícius Cabral, Comasseta Machado and Debora Lee (2022) ‘When a trans is killed another thousand rise!’: Transnecropolitics and resistance in Brazil. In: P. Doan and L. Johnston (eds.) Rethinking Transgender Identities: Reflections from Across the Globe. London, Routledge
Tanyildiz, G., L. Peake, E. Koleth, R.N. Narayanareddy, D. Patrick and S. Ruddick (2021) A feminist urban theory for our time: rethinking social reproduction, the urban and its constitutive outside, In: L. Peake et al. (eds.) A feminist urban theory for our time: rethinking social reproduction and the urban. London, Antipode Book Series, Wiley Press, 1-41
Torrás Genís, Carme and Lydia Delicado-Moratalla (2022) Blanco y Frío como El Polo Norte y El Polo Sur: Seres Humanos y Robots, Sociology and Technoscience, 12:1, 257–275
