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34 The Ship

  • Miriam Matthiessen , Jessica Steinman , Jess Bier und Irene van Oorschot
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Abstract

Ships are not a classical area of focus for feminist theory, but there is a long history of scholarship on ships in geography and related fields. Recently there have been a variety of engagements with the figure of the ship, as a social and material space as well as an epistemic object, that resonate with many of the concerns in feminist political geography through their focus on rethinking political spaces and scales. Over time in the scholarly literature ships have been conceived alternately as factories, wombs, prisons, camps, and quarantine sites, as well as loci of rebellion and mutiny. Given the wide variety of ways the ship has been mobilized in research, it is almost in danger of becoming an empty signifier. However, there are a number of specific genealogies of research that draw on the ship in particular ways. Especially in fields like Black studies, decolonial theory, ecology, and multispecies theorizing, ships have been seen alternately as spaces of subjectification, exploitation, resistance, and multispecies encounter.

Abstract

Ships are not a classical area of focus for feminist theory, but there is a long history of scholarship on ships in geography and related fields. Recently there have been a variety of engagements with the figure of the ship, as a social and material space as well as an epistemic object, that resonate with many of the concerns in feminist political geography through their focus on rethinking political spaces and scales. Over time in the scholarly literature ships have been conceived alternately as factories, wombs, prisons, camps, and quarantine sites, as well as loci of rebellion and mutiny. Given the wide variety of ways the ship has been mobilized in research, it is almost in danger of becoming an empty signifier. However, there are a number of specific genealogies of research that draw on the ship in particular ways. Especially in fields like Black studies, decolonial theory, ecology, and multispecies theorizing, ships have been seen alternately as spaces of subjectification, exploitation, resistance, and multispecies encounter.

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