1st Edition
Decolonising Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures
Introduction: decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures
Elsa Koleth, Linda Peake, Nasya S. Razavi and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
1. “Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction
C. S. Ponder
2. The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers
Wangui Kimari and Henrik Ernstson
3. Spaces of social reproduction, mobility, and the Syrian refugee care crisis in Izmir, Turkey
Eda Acara and Sevim Özdemir
4. “I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India
Josie Wittmer
5. Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates
Esra Alkim Karaagac
6. On women, pans, and politics: imagining decolonial gendered urban spatialities
Luna Lyra
Biography
Linda Peake, FRSC, is Professor Emerita at York University, Toronto, Canada, and Principal Investigator on the GenUrb project ‘Urbanisation, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network’. She is a feminist urban geographer engaged in urban theory production and empirically informed research on women in cities in both North America and Guyana.
Nasya S. Razavi holds a PhD in Human Geography from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, and is currently Latin America program manager at social justice organisation Inter Pares. Affiliated with the Municipal Services Project and transnational feminist collective GenUrb at York University, Toronto, Canada, Nasya’s work focuses on public water governance, gender, and urban spaces.
Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, and co-PI on the GenUrb project. She is a feminist researcher whose current research explores the intricate interplay between precarity, creativity, and embodied youth labour and the relationship between the city and the body in Nigeria.
Elsa Koleth was a post-doctoral fellow on the GenUrb project at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include the spatialities and temporalities of urbanisation, migration and mobility, transnationalism and border-making, and the shifting nature of governmentalities and subjectivities, particularly in relation to the intersections of race, gender, and class.
