Feminist geographies of intersectionality and everyday places/spaces
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Feminist geographies of intersectionality and everyday places/spaces
2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, May 27 – 31, 2019
At the 2017 annual meeting of the CAG, we held four sessions exploring recent works in feminist geographies engaging with intersectionality as a theoretical, empirical and methodological approach.
Following up on these conversations, our objective is to regroup papers mobilizing an “intersectional sensibility” (Cho, Williams Crenshaw, and McCall 2013) to explore configurations of power and identities in everyday places/spaces. Feminist geographers (Mollett & Faria 2018; Valentine 2007) are increasingly using intersectionality to draw attention to the complex processes and politics of identification, dis-identification, affiliations, marginalization and oppression that emerge at different spatial-temporal moments. Such analyses reveal how axes of differences and unequal power are spatially produced, and how “which differences make a difference” (Tomlinson 2013) is determined through intersecting dominant spatial regimes.
This session focuses on places/spaces of everyday life, their materiality, their routine sociality, as well as their representations, discursive and imaginary dimensions. We are interested in intersectional analyses of the actions of everyday places/spaces in shaping different people’s lives, subjectivities, circumstances, possibilities, impossibilities, power, and powerlessness. Particularly, we are interested in how different articulations of gender and their intersections with class, race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, language and dis/ability are produced and contested through places/spaces of the everyday.
Papers could discuss everyday places/spaces and experiences that relate to (but are not limited to):
- Mothering and family life
- Migration and belonging
- Labour, work and precarity
- Safety
- Emotions and affect
- Bodies
- Dis/ability
- Language
- Neighbourhood and community
- Housing
- Activism and resistance
We encourage submissions in French and English, based on research-in-progress and completed research projects, by those at various stages in their academic career. Please forward a title, abstract (max. 200 words), and author information directly to Laurence Simard-Gagnon (12gls@queensu.ca) and Luisa Veronis (lveronis@uottawa.ca) by February 25, 2019.