47 Historical Approaches
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Francesca Moore
Abstract
This chapter develops the theory and method of an historically engaged feminist political geography. It begins with a reflection on the intellectual heritage of geography as a discipline and the impact of this on feminist political geographic thought. The chapter goes on to frame feminist political geography, which is a highly diverse collection of scholarship, as gendered spatial work on power, and a specific set of epistemological and methodological techniques. The chapter makes a key claim for the importance of an historically informed feminist political geography by presenting a preliminary historical analysis of the global intimate. This demonstrates the ways in which key tenets of feminist political geography, including questions of onto-epistemology, scale, and challenge to conventional understandings of politics, are usefully approached through an historical lens. Understanding the present in its wider historical, social, and cultural context is a technique to deepen engagement with the vital geographical themes that feminist political geography seeks to address. Furthermore, exploring the methodological tools of an historical approach, the chapter demonstrates the ways in which archives are an essential tool of achieving this historical analysis and even scholar activism for the feminist political geographer.
Abstract
This chapter develops the theory and method of an historically engaged feminist political geography. It begins with a reflection on the intellectual heritage of geography as a discipline and the impact of this on feminist political geographic thought. The chapter goes on to frame feminist political geography, which is a highly diverse collection of scholarship, as gendered spatial work on power, and a specific set of epistemological and methodological techniques. The chapter makes a key claim for the importance of an historically informed feminist political geography by presenting a preliminary historical analysis of the global intimate. This demonstrates the ways in which key tenets of feminist political geography, including questions of onto-epistemology, scale, and challenge to conventional understandings of politics, are usefully approached through an historical lens. Understanding the present in its wider historical, social, and cultural context is a technique to deepen engagement with the vital geographical themes that feminist political geography seeks to address. Furthermore, exploring the methodological tools of an historical approach, the chapter demonstrates the ways in which archives are an essential tool of achieving this historical analysis and even scholar activism for the feminist political geographer.
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
-
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
