Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
About: This article is published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 265 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Critical geography & Human geography.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look back at Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (VP&NC) itself (Laura Mulvey 1975), and the theoretical and political context in which it app...
Abstract: Preparing this piece, I found myself looking back, not only at “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (“VP&NC”) itself (Laura Mulvey 1975), and the theoretical and political context in which it app...
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TL;DR: A critical review of how place, scale, and networks are used as metaphors for the spatiality of globalization suggests that space/time still matters as discussed by the authors, and the inclusion of positionality challenges the simplicity of pro-and antiglobalization narratives and can...
Abstract: Discussions of the spatiality of globalization have largely focused on place-based attributes that fix globalization locally, on globalization as the construction of scale, and on networks as a distinctive feature of contemporary globalization. By contrast, position within the global economy is frequently regarded as anachronistic in a shrinking, networked world. A critical review of how place, scale, and networks are used as metaphors for the spatiality of globalization suggests that space/time still matters. Positionality (position in relational space/time within the global economy) is conceptualized as both shaping and shaped by the trajectories of globalization and as influencing the conditions of possibility of places in a globalizing world. The wormhole is invoked as a way of describing the concrete geographies of positionality and their non-Euclidean relationship to the Earth’s surface. The inclusion of positionality challenges the simplicity of pro- and antiglobalization narratives and can...
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...Feminists have also stressed that collaboration, rather than competition, between places is the key to successful resistance, articulated variously by Gillian Rose (1993) as paradoxical spaces and by Katz as countertopographies (see also Leitner and Sheppard 1999 for a similar argument in political economy)....
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...…have also stressed that collaboration, rather than competition, between places is the key to successful resistance, articulated variously by Gillian Rose (1993) as paradoxical spaces and by Katz as countertopographies (see also Leitner and Sheppard 1999 for a similar argument in political economy)....
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TL;DR: In this article, an approach to GIS-based narrative analysis developed in the study, called "geo-narrative", is based on extending current GIS capabilities for the analysis and interpretation of narrative materials such as oral histories, life histories, and biographies.
Abstract: This research seeks to contribute to advancing qualitative methodologies at the intersection of qualitative geographic information systems (GIS), narrative analysis, 3D GIS-based time-geographic methods, and computer-aided qualitative data analysis. The approach to GIS-based narrative analysis developed in the study, called “geo-narrative,” is based on extending current GIS capabilities for the analysis and interpretation of narrative materials such as oral histories, life histories, and biographies. The three central elements in this approach are (1) narrative analysis as the qualitative approach; (2) 3D GIS-based time-geographic methods as the representational framework; and (3) 3D-VQGIS as the GIS-based computer-aided qualitative data analysis component. A case example based on a study of the lives of the Muslim women in Columbus, Ohio, after 11 September 2001 is used to illustrate the approach.
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...4 Some geographers have raised concerns about the epistemological limitations in using timegeographic representations such as the life path in the study of people’s everyday experience (e.g., Rose 1993)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the method of sequence alignment as a tool for analyzing the sequential aspects within the temporal and spatial dimensions of human activities, and demonstrate the merits of sequence alignments for geographic research, using a database composed of forty space-time sequences of visitors who had visited the Old City of Akko (Israel).
Abstract: This article introduces the method of sequence alignment as a tool for analyzing the sequential aspects within the temporal and spatial dimensions of human activities. Sequence alignment was first developed during the 1980s and employed by biochemists to analyze DNA sequences. Toward the end of the 1990s it was adapted for use in the social sciences. However, unlike other social sciences practitioners, geographers have not, until now, exploited this method. In contrast to traditional quantitative methods, sequence alignment, as its name suggests, is directly concerned with the order (sequence) of events, and is therefore well suited for the pursuit of time-geographic research. To demonstrate the merits of sequence alignment for geographic research, a database composed of forty space-time sequences of visitors who had visited the Old City of Akko (Israel) was used. The sequences were obtained by means of GPS devices, which were distributed among the visitors tracked and which they operated for the...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on pious Muslim women's new veiling practices in Istanbul and chart possible geographical analyses not only of religion but also of secularism as the two phenomena intersect and compete with one another in complex and often contradictory ways.
Abstract: Recent calls for new geographies of religion draw attention to how religion shapes the formation of subjectivity. Focusing on pious Muslim women's new veiling practices in Istanbul, I chart possible geographical analyses not only of religion but also of secularism as the two phenomena intersect and compete with one another in complex and often contradictory ways. I approach veiling as a gendered embodied spatial practice that reveals the intertwined production of bodies and subjectivities. Social meanings, the wider political context and spatial regimes that govern everyday life, as well as individual experiences, shape the production of corporeal piety. For the case I analyze, the hegemonic ideology of secularism, the highly politicized issue of veiling, and the informal and formal restrictions on the headscarf all come into play. This analysis offers new insights about the geographies of the body, subjectivity, and the city by highlighting the significant role religion and secularism play in their produ...
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...…recently disabled and youth geographies critique the unmarked or undifferentiated body of humanistic literature and of geography in general; analyses of the body are mobilized to critique the mind–body dualism and the implicitly male and masculinist discipline of geography (Duncan 1996; Rose 1993)....
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