7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics
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Linn Biorklund
und Jennifer Hyndman
Abstract
Building on feminist geopolitics and geographies of embodied violence, this chapter foregrounds cuerpo-territorio (body-territory) as a lens to advance and extend feminist political geography in ways that connect intimate, state, economic, and conflict-related violence across bodies, borders, and communities. For decades, feminist geographers have challenged the assumptions of dominant Western geopolitics and notions of violence by rescaling analysis to focus on the impact and responses of violence on those most affected. Efforts to incorporate knowledge and methods from feminist geographies in languages other than English and beyond Global North locations have, however, been limited. Drawing inspiration specifically from communitarian and decolonial feminist scholars, including geographers, in Latin America, the case is made for a body-territory epistemological framing and approach to understanding violence as a geopolitical economy of embodiment. A body-territory-centered assemblage offers a situated, embodied, and intersectional approach to theorizing and tracing visceral geographies of violence and ways of living beyond and despite that violence.
Abstract
Building on feminist geopolitics and geographies of embodied violence, this chapter foregrounds cuerpo-territorio (body-territory) as a lens to advance and extend feminist political geography in ways that connect intimate, state, economic, and conflict-related violence across bodies, borders, and communities. For decades, feminist geographers have challenged the assumptions of dominant Western geopolitics and notions of violence by rescaling analysis to focus on the impact and responses of violence on those most affected. Efforts to incorporate knowledge and methods from feminist geographies in languages other than English and beyond Global North locations have, however, been limited. Drawing inspiration specifically from communitarian and decolonial feminist scholars, including geographers, in Latin America, the case is made for a body-territory epistemological framing and approach to understanding violence as a geopolitical economy of embodiment. A body-territory-centered assemblage offers a situated, embodied, and intersectional approach to theorizing and tracing visceral geographies of violence and ways of living beyond and despite that violence.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- 1 Introduction 1
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Part I: Foundations
- 2 The Feminist Geography Of Feminist Political Geography 18
- 3 Feminist Geopolitics 33
- 4 Intimate Geopolitics 51
- 5 Nationalism 65
- 6 De/coloniality 77
- 7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics 89
- 8 Trauma 103
- 9 Peace 115
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Part II: Critical Interventions
- 10 Black Futurity 129
- 11 Racial Capitalism 141
- 12 Populism 153
- 13 Electoral Democracy 165
- 14 Crip Geographies 177
- 15 Queer Geographies 189
- 16 Trans Geographies 201
- 17 Cuerpo-Territorio 213
- 18 Geographies Of Technology 227
- 19 More-Than-Human Geographies 239
- 20 Austerity 251
- 21 Labor 263
- 22 Health 275
- 23 Environmental Justice 287
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Part III: Spaces
- 24 Territory 303
- 25 The Nation-State 315
- 26 The Border 329
- 27 Spaces Of Refuge And Asylum 341
- 28 The Body 353
- 29 Home 367
- 30 The Workplace 379
- 31 The City 391
- 32 The Rural 403
- 33 The Ocean 415
- 34 The Ship 427
- 35 Public Transport 439
- 36 Infrastructure 451
- 37 The Prison 461
- 38 Food 475
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Part IV: Methodologies
- 39 Postcolonial Positionality 487
- 40 Digital Methods And Community-Engaged Research 499
- 41 Fieldwork 511
- 42 Ethnography 525
- 43 Creative Political Geography 537
- 44 Mobile Methods 549
- 45 Life Histories 563
- 46 Black Feminist Literary Methods 575
- 47 Historical Approaches 587
- List of Contributors 599
- Index
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- 1 Introduction 1
-
Part I: Foundations
- 2 The Feminist Geography Of Feminist Political Geography 18
- 3 Feminist Geopolitics 33
- 4 Intimate Geopolitics 51
- 5 Nationalism 65
- 6 De/coloniality 77
- 7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics 89
- 8 Trauma 103
- 9 Peace 115
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Part II: Critical Interventions
- 10 Black Futurity 129
- 11 Racial Capitalism 141
- 12 Populism 153
- 13 Electoral Democracy 165
- 14 Crip Geographies 177
- 15 Queer Geographies 189
- 16 Trans Geographies 201
- 17 Cuerpo-Territorio 213
- 18 Geographies Of Technology 227
- 19 More-Than-Human Geographies 239
- 20 Austerity 251
- 21 Labor 263
- 22 Health 275
- 23 Environmental Justice 287
-
Part III: Spaces
- 24 Territory 303
- 25 The Nation-State 315
- 26 The Border 329
- 27 Spaces Of Refuge And Asylum 341
- 28 The Body 353
- 29 Home 367
- 30 The Workplace 379
- 31 The City 391
- 32 The Rural 403
- 33 The Ocean 415
- 34 The Ship 427
- 35 Public Transport 439
- 36 Infrastructure 451
- 37 The Prison 461
- 38 Food 475
-
Part IV: Methodologies
- 39 Postcolonial Positionality 487
- 40 Digital Methods And Community-Engaged Research 499
- 41 Fieldwork 511
- 42 Ethnography 525
- 43 Creative Political Geography 537
- 44 Mobile Methods 549
- 45 Life Histories 563
- 46 Black Feminist Literary Methods 575
- 47 Historical Approaches 587
- List of Contributors 599
- Index