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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"feminist geography"”.
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A Space of their Own? A feminist exploration of gendered spatial relations in Professional Women’s Organizations in Alberta's Resource Sector
… of professional women’s groups. Drawing on feminist geography, the objective of this research was to explore the social relations and power structures involved within the work environment that categorized where women’s groups are created, why they are created, and the strategies used in …
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Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town
… in theories of surveillance, embodiment, and feminist geography of fear of crime, the study employed a feminist methodology using qualitative group interviews with international students from the Southern African Development Community at the University of Cape Town. The transcribed data was …
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Held in place
… space, gender and feminism through the lens of Feminist Geography provides a framework for understanding how social systems, place, space and mobility intersect. Contexts of race and gender are discussed through the histories and processes of (Tajik) Textiles, Immigration, and the art historical …
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Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places
… constituted. I examine examples from time-geography, humanistic geography, medical geography and feminist geography in order to illustrate the ways in which the body is Othered. This Othering of the body in geography serves to marginalise certain individuals and groups, such as women, who …
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“The Smallest Housewife in the Grass”: Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
… to the paleo-Modern period. Delineating an ecofeminist tradition, as well as human and feminist geography, I interrogate the ways in which women, plants, botanical study, and poetics by women were “othered” and delegitimized from the nineteenth century and beyond. Social, religious, and …
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Belonging in the Segregated City: Gender, community and urban citizenship in Mumbai, India
… to scholarship across urban studies, political geography and postcolonial feminist geography, providing an intersectional investigation of emerging gendered social relations in the context of urban segregation.
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REMEMORY: Territorial Justice in Both Americas
… and leans on theory from the traditions of Black Feminist Geography, Decolonial and Postcolonial Thought, as well recent literature around property rights. In Chapter 1 I outline the structure of the paper, provide a review of the literature, and discuss my methods. Chapter 2 develops a thorough …
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Social Sensory Somatic Scores for Species, Spaces, Soils, and Structures of Steep Slopes
… studies, landscape architecture theory, feminist geography, ecological theology, environmental history, sensory ethnography, and media studies, SSSSSSSSSS dances an inclined methodological structure, oscillating deliberately between critical systemic analysis and situated sensory …
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A Geography of Fear of Crime in Maynooth
Geography of crime is not a new addition to the discipline of geography, many studies, mostly empirical in nature and carried out by male geographers, have been conducted in the past. Fear of crime is however regarded as a newcomer, especially in feminist studies. Geography has tended to ignore the …
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Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women's food insecurity coping strategies in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC
… foundations from critical food studies, urban geography and feminist geography, this research contributes to these literatures through theorizing structure and agency dynamics evident in food insecurity, particularly from the perspective of those coping with food insecurity. It is important to …
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Equal Opportunities on Ice: Examining gender and institutional change at the British Antarctic Survey, 1975-1996
… and philosophy of science, science studies, and feminist geography today.
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'It is I Who Am Transforming': Mining, Capitalism, and the Conscious Earth
This dissertation is guided by one underlying research question: How does one transform an environmentally destructive society? The society in question is that of the capitalist Western world. I begin with a hypothesis: the inherent destruction of the West is rooted in perceived human-Earth …
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
… in Uganda’s used clothing industry. I build on feminist and postcolonial urban Geography to analyze how these women carry out, disrupt, and navigate rapid processes of gentrification. I seek to understand macro geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts as they are enacted through often overlooked …
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Alma Mater? Lactation Rooms as a Case Study for Centering Place-making in the Quest for Inclusion on College Campuses
In the 2019-2020 school year, there are at least 30,000 pregnant students on U.S. university campuses who might need a place to pump or nurse while in school. National policies protect the need for time and space for employed lactators, but there are only suggested protections for space for …
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"Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston
This dissertation is about migrant Francophone mothers’ experiences of mothering in Kingston, Ontario. It exposes how elements of these women’s life-stories, namely mothering, migration, and minority language, intersect with experiences of places to orient their subjectivities, their material …
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SOCIO-SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
… of migrant women, migration statistics, feminist migration research, and social capital research, this study builds an understanding of women’s experiences in their migration to the city of Tbilisi and how women manage their linked rural-urban socio-spatial networks.
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SOCIO-SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
… of migrant women, migration statistics, feminist migration research, and social capital research, this study builds an understanding of women’s experiences in their migration to the city of Tbilisi and how women manage their linked rural-urban socio-spatial networks.
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The Camouflaging of Austerity: Institutional geographies of mental health in contemporary England
… I begin by offering a forensic cultural geography of austerity, a granular survey of the uneven geographies of mental health services and spending which emerged between 2010 and 2020. I situate these in a conjunctural analysis of English politics, economics and culture. To conceptualise …
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Processual place: Intersections in dance performance, human geographical discourse, and everyday life
… discussed connect to selected postmodern and feminist human geographical constructs of "place." Further, as dance performance appreciation is subjectively-perceived but also fluidly interpreted over time, personal understandings of a dance may change, as may interpretations of a place. In …
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