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

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

Anindita Datta, Janet Momsen and Ann M. Oberhauser

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

Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon and Antoni Luna

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

Holly M. Hapke

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

Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

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

Sorina Voiculescu and Margareta Amy Lelea

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

Joos Droogleever Fortuijn

　

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

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

Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg

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

Robyn Longhurst and Lynda Johnston

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

Joseli Maria Silva, Marcio Jose Ornat and Tamires Regina Aguiar de Oliveira Cesar

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

Ruth Fincher, Katherine Gibson and Louise C. Johnson

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

Michael Solem and Ken Foote

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

Martina Angela Caretta and Federica Bono

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

Swagata Basu

14. Challenging Instability: Women’s Multigenerational Narratives of Work in the Margins of Central and Eastern Europe

Doris Wastl-Walter, Ágnes Erőss and Monika Mária Váradi

15. Life Course in the New Processes of Re-Ruralization in Spain

Mireia Baylina, Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon, Montserrat Villarino, Mª Josefa Mosteiro García,

Ana Mª Porto Castro and Isabel Salamaña

16. Independence and Entrepreneurship Among Arab Muslim Rural and Bedouin Women in Israel

Ruth Kark, Emir Galilee and Tamar Feuerstein

　

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

Janice Monk, Richard Howitt, Claire Colyer, Candy Kilby, Lynette Kilby, Stephen Collins, Bev Johnson, David Crew and Roger Penrith

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

Janet Momsen

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

John Connell

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

Margarida Queirós

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

          Rachel Clissold and Karen E. McNamara

Biography

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.