Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies - Essays in Honour of Janice Monk

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co-edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years. The chapters, from over 45 leading international scholars, encompass key areas Monk has contributed to within feminist geography.
The collaborative nature of this project reflects the networks and themes Monk nurtured throughout her long and impactful career. The book provides critical insights to wide-ranging topics that include the development of feminist geography in different global contexts, gendered geographies of work and everyday life, and gender and environmental concerns.
Diverse voices and perspectives in this book will serve as invaluable resources for scholars interested in gender and feminist geographies, the history of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, career trajectories of women geographers in different parts of the world, gendered geographies of the life course, as well as feminist analyses of environmental issues. The book will be useful to students, educators, and activists in gender studies, development studies, and human geography.

List of contents

1. Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of Janice Monk
 

PART I: Gender and Feminist Geographies: Perspectives from around the World



2. Connecting Distant Academic Landscapes, Inspiring Researchers: Jan Monk's Role in Developing Gender Geography and Geohumanities in Spain



3. Crossing Borders, Exotic Women and the Challenge of Teaching Gender in World Regional Geography and Area Studies Courses



4. Centering Fireside Knowledge and Utu Feminisms: On Writing Feminist Margins from the Margins



5. The Value of Feminist Scholarship: Renegotiating Spaces for Gender and Geography in Post-Communist Romania



6. Women in Geography: The Case of the International Geographical Union


PART II: Career Trajectories of Women Geographers - Strategies to Survive and Thrive

7. "Making Zonia Known": Discussing Baber's "Peace Symbols" (1948)



8. Janice Monk and Evelyn Stokes: Two Women Geographers from Down Under Break New Ground



9. The 'Excluded Half of the Human' in Brazilian Geography: The Life Course of Women in a Scientific Field 



10. Being (From) There: Antipodean Reflections on Feminist Geography



11. Valuing Mentoring: Jan Monk's role in Creating a Community of Support for Early Career Researchers



12. Students' Evaluation of Instruction: A Neoliberal Managerial Tool Against Faculty Diversity

 

PART III: Gendered Geographies of the Life Course: Work and Everyday Life



13. Migrant Women's Everyday Lives and Work Burdens: Insights from Kusumpur Pahari, Delhi



14. Challenging Instability: Women's Multigenerational Narratives of Work in the Margins of Central and Eastern Europe
    
15. Life Course in the New Processes of Re-Ruralization in Spain
    
16. Independence and Entrepreneurship Among Arab Muslim Rural and Bedouin Women in Israel


PART IV: Gender and Environmental Concerns: Change, Crisis and Recovery



17. Social Change in Griffith, NSW, Australia: Discourses of Indigeneity, Identity, Justice and Well-Being over Fifty Years



18. Gender and the Food History of the Caribbean: The Case of Cassava in Barbados



19. COVID-19 and Tourism in the Island Pacific: Gender Tribulations and Transformations in Different Seas



20. Women and Waste Recycling in the State of São Paulo, Brazil



21. Women's Stories of Loss and Recovery from Climatic Events in the Pacific Islands

About the author

Anindita Datta is Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Delhi and the current Chair of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. Her work focuses on gendered and epistemic violence, indigenous feminisms, spaces of resistance and geographies of care. A member of several international editorial boards and collaborations such as the NORAD, Linnaeus Palme and Erasmus Mundus programmes, Anindita is committed to feminist mentoring and building transformative networks of care across differences. Her recent books include Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes and the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geography (co-editor).
Janet Momsen was a founding member of the Gender Commission in 1988 and was Chair from then until 1996, continuing as Treasurer until 2006. She is Emerita Professor of Geography, University of California, Davis. Her research is mainly on gender and agricultural development. She has also taught in England, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Africa. She has published 17 books, founded and is current Editor of the Routledge series on International Studies of Women and Place.
Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University and holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University. Her research focuses on feminist economic geography, gender and globalization, feminist pedagogy, and critical development studies with an emphasis on rural economic strategies in Appalachia and sub-Saharan Africa. Her publications include Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context and Global Perspectives on Gender and Space. Oberhauser is a long-time member of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

Summary

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co- edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years.

Product details

• Authors: Anindita (Delhi School of Economics) Momsen Datta
• Assisted by: Anindita Datta (Editor), Janet Momsen (Editor), Momsen Janet (Editor), Ann M. Oberhauser (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032275635
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227563-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Human Geography, Regional Geography