Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research

by Liz Bondi, Hannah Avis (Contribution by), Ruth Bankey (Contribution by), Amanda Bingley (Contribution by), Liz Bondi (Contribution by)

Overview

Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of humans as subjects. This collaboration by a group of feminist researchers looks at subjectivity in relation to researchers, the researched, and audiences, as well as at the connections between subjectivity and knowledge. The authors argue that subjectivity is spatialized in embodied, multiple, and fractured ways, challenging the dominant notions of the rational, 'bounded' subject. A highly original contribution to feminist geography, this book is equally relevant to social science debates about using qualitative methodologies and to ongoing discussions on the ethics of social research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742515628
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/23/2002
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.74(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

The authors were all members of a Feminist Geography Reading Group at the University of Edinburgh when this volume began to take shape. Some are still at the University of Edinburgh; others are now elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies Part 2 Part I: Embodiment, Emotions, and Subjectivities Chapter 3 "All in the Mind?": Women, Agoraphobia, and the Subject of "Self Help" Chapter 4 Understanding the Geography of Women's Fear: Toward a Reconceptualization of Fear and Space Chapter 5 Embodying Agoraphobia: Rethinking Geographies of Women's Fear Chapter 6 "Once More with Feeling": Putting Emotion into Geographies of Music Part 7 Part II: Dualisms, Bodies, and Subjectivities Chapter 8 Borderline Bodies Chapter 9 Crossing Boundaries: Gendered Spaces and Bodies in Golf Chapter 10 Talking with the Magician's Apprentice: Fleshing Out GIS Users Part 11 Part III: Knowledges and Subjectivities Chapter 12 Performing Art and Identities: Artists of Palestinian Origin in Canada Chapter 13 Tasteful Visions: The Cultivation of "an" Audience for Art Chapter 14 "Dependency": New Labour Welfare Reform Policy and the Production of the Passive, Dependent Benefit Claimant Chapter 15 Hot Gossip: Rumor as Politics Part 16 Part IV: Inter-Subjectivities in Research Practice Chapter 17 Whose Voice Is That? Making Space for Subjectivities in Interviews Chapter 18 Research Ethics in Practice Chapter 19 Telling Stories, Making Selves Chapter 20 Situated Ethics and Feminist Ethnography in a West-of-Scotland Hospice Chapter 21 Conclusion: Boundaries, Situations, Relations Chapter 22 References

Editorial Reviews

Having recently established a postgraduate feminist reading group with 15 students in my School, I approached the Bondi et al. collection with great interest. I wasn't disappointed….Through reflections upon and engagements with the authors' research topics and methodological processes, it explores central debates and dilemmas within current feminine geographies and provides an example of collaborative feminist practice in action in action. It's also a great read!….The breadth, depth and quality of this collection is a testament to the openness and commitment to 'walking the talk' of staff and students in feminist geography in Edinburgh. It serves as a useful model for others who seek to practice an embodied and spatialized feminist politics elsewhere. I will be sharing it with my current reading group and would encourage others to do so also.

New Zealand Geographer - Sara Kindon

A highly original contribution to feminist geography...Students and researchers in women's studies and social sciences will welcome this timely publication.

Educational Book Review

This volume is a collection of thought-provoking articles; together, they signify a move toward understanding the creation of subjectivities.

Place & Environment Ethics

A worhtwhile contribution to a substantial and growing feminist literature that explores the relationships between knowledge production ad spatialities of subjectivity. Compelling to read, this volume offers upper-level students and academics a collection of qualitative empirical and theoretical studies that add depth and breadth to feminist inquiry.

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Having recently established a postgraduate feminist reading group with 15 students in my School, I approached the Bondi et al. collection with great interest. I wasn't disappointed....Through reflections upon and engagements with the authors' research topics and methodological processes, it explores central debates and dilemmas within current feminine geographies and provides an example of collaborative feminist practice in action in action. It's also a great read!....The breadth, depth and quality of this collection is a testament to the openness and commitment to 'walking the talk' of staff and students in feminist geography in Edinburgh. It serves as a useful model for others who seek to practice an embodied and spatialized feminist politics elsewhere. I will be sharing it with my current reading group and would encourage others to do so also.--Sara Kindon, Institute of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington "New Zealand Geographer "

This volume is a collection of thought-provoking articles; together, they signify a move toward understanding the creation of subjectivities.--Ethics, Place & Environment

A worhtwhile contribution to a substantial and growing feminist literature that explores the relationships between knowledge production ad spatialities of subjectivity. Compelling to read, this volume offers upper-level students and academics a collection of qualitative empirical and theoretical studies that add depth and breadth to feminist inquiry.--Annals of the Association of American Geographers

From the Publisher

This volume is a collection of thought-provoking articles; together, they signify a move toward understanding the creation of subjectivities.

Place and Environment Ethics

Having recently established a postgraduate feminist reading group with 15 students in my School, I approached the Bondi et al. collection with great interest. I wasn't disappointed….Through reflections upon and engagements with the authors' research topics and methodological processes, it explores central debates and dilemmas within current feminine geographies and provides an example of collaborative feminist practice in action in action. It's also a great read!….The breadth, depth and quality of this collection is a testament to the openness and commitment to 'walking the talk' of staff and students in feminist geography in Edinburgh. It serves as a useful model for others who seek to practice an embodied and spatialized feminist politics elsewhere. I will be sharing it with my current reading group and would encourage others to do so also.
— Sara Kindon, Institute of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand Geographer

It is not as geographers that the contributors have come together, but as members of geography departments, mostly in Scotland but also England, the continent, and New Zealand. The discussion emerges from their day-to-day struggles as graduate students, research workers, and lecturers to create and sustain places for themselves within or in relation to the academy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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