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What future for feminist geography?

journal contribution
posted on 1994-03-01, 00:00 authored by Louise JohnsonLouise Johnson
Drawing primarily on my own work, speculations are offered on a range of possible futures for feminist geography. It is suggested that the most likely trajectory is one of incorporation as feminist geography is dismissed, regarded with indifference or included within a pluralist, but basically unaltered discipline. While a contentious and depressing suggestion, an alternative trajectory is offered by a feminist geography which actively engages with other progressive developments in the discipline and creatively incorporates new developments in feminist scholarship on, for example, the body, deconstruction and post-colonialism. A third future builds on such engagements to offer various transformations of the subject, power relations and conceptual baggage which presently constitute feminist geography, through a process of self-reflection and critical positioning. These three trajectories of incorporation, engagement and transformation I see as simultaneously operating in my own work. Reflections on them are offered for others to consider and to stimulate debate.

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Journal

Gender Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

Volume

1

Issue

1

Pagination

103 - 113

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

0966-369X

eISSN

1360-0524

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1994, Routledge

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