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  • Claudia Rivera-Amarillo
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Abstract

This chapter provides a broad vision of the geographies of health in conversation with feminist geographical thinking. To this end, this chapter examines the connections between body and space in the two traditions associated with health and illness studies in geography, namely disease ecology and the more recent field of health geographies, from a feminist political geography perspective. The chapter addresses critical issues and conceptual innovations in these analyses, drawing especially on Black feminist geographical thinking, as well as the place of feminist and antiracist theories as critical insights into the discipline’s historical development. Finally, the chapter outlines future research directions for health geographies from the perspective of Black feminist politics. The chapter concludes that the consequences of climate change and the recent conservative turn in several regions of the world are the most urgent tasks and that the de-medicalization of approaches to the body is crucial for the feminist political geographies of health.

Abstract

This chapter provides a broad vision of the geographies of health in conversation with feminist geographical thinking. To this end, this chapter examines the connections between body and space in the two traditions associated with health and illness studies in geography, namely disease ecology and the more recent field of health geographies, from a feminist political geography perspective. The chapter addresses critical issues and conceptual innovations in these analyses, drawing especially on Black feminist geographical thinking, as well as the place of feminist and antiracist theories as critical insights into the discipline’s historical development. Finally, the chapter outlines future research directions for health geographies from the perspective of Black feminist politics. The chapter concludes that the consequences of climate change and the recent conservative turn in several regions of the world are the most urgent tasks and that the de-medicalization of approaches to the body is crucial for the feminist political geographies of health.

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