Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies

<p>This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co-edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years. The chapters, from over 45 leading international scholars, encompass key areas Monk has contributed to within feminist geography.</p><p>The collaborative nature of this project reflects the networks and themes Monk nurtured throughout her long and impactful career. The book provides critical insights to wide-ranging topics that include the development of feminist geography in different global contexts, gendered geographies of work and everyday life, and gender and environmental concerns.</p><p>Diverse voices and perspectives in this book will serve as invaluable resources for scholars interested in gender and feminist geographies, the history of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, career trajectories of women geographers in different parts of the world, gendered geographies of the life course, as well as feminist analyses of environmental issues. The book will be useful to students, educators, and activists in gender studies, development studies, and human geography.</p> <ol> <li>Bridging Worlds – Building Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of Janice Monk</li> <i> </i><p> </p> <b> </b><p>PART I: Gender and Feminist Geographies: Perspectives from around the World</p> <p> </p> <li>Connecting Distant Academic Landscapes, Inspiring Researchers: Jan Monk’s Role in Developing Gender Geography and Geohumanities in Spain </li> <p> </p> <li>Crossing Borders, Exotic Women and the Challenge of Teaching Gender in World Regional Geography and Area Studies Courses </li> <p> </p> <li>Centering Fireside Knowledge and Utu Feminisms: On Writing Feminist Margins from the Margins</li> <p> </p> <li>The Value of Feminist Scholarship: Renegotiating Spaces for Gender and Geography in Post-Communist Romania </li> <p> </p> <li>Women in Geography: The Case of the International Geographical Union </li> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>PART II: Career Trajectories of Women Geographers </strong><b>– </b><strong>Strategies to Survive and Thrive</strong></p> <li>"Making Zonia Known": Discussing Baber’s "Peace Symbols" (1948) </li> <p> </p> <li>Janice Monk and Evelyn Stokes: Two Women Geographers from Down Under Break New Ground </li> <p> </p> <li>The ‘Excluded Half of the Human’ in Brazilian Geography: The Life Course of Women in a Scientific Field<i> </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Being (From) There: Antipodean Reflections on Feminist Geography </li> <p> </p> <li>Valuing Mentoring: Jan Monk’s role in Creating a Community of Support for Early Career Researchers </li> <p> </p> <li>Students’ Evaluation of Instruction: A Neoliberal Managerial Tool Against Faculty Diversity</li> <i> </i><p> </p> <b> </b><p>PART III: Gendered Geographies of the Life Course: Work and Everyday Life</p> <p> </p> <li>Migrant Women’s Everyday Lives and Work Burdens: Insights from Kusumpur Pahari, Delhi </li> <p> </p> <li>Challenging Instability: Women’s Multigenerational Narratives of Work in the Margins of Central and Eastern Europe<br> </li> <li>Life Course in the New Processes of Re-Ruralization in Spain<br> </li> <li>Independence and Entrepreneurship Among Arab Muslim Rural and Bedouin Women in Israel </li> <b> </b><p> </p> <p>PART IV: Gender and Environmental Concerns: Change, Crisis and Recovery</p> <p> </p> <li>Social Change in Griffith, NSW, Australia: Discourses of Indigeneity, Identity, Justice and Well-Being over Fifty Years </li> <p> </p> <li>Gender and the Food History of the Caribbean: The Case of Cassava in Barbados </li> <p> </p> <li>COVID-19 and Tourism in the Island Pacific: Gender Tribulations and Transformations in Different Seas </li> <p> </p> <li>Women and Waste Recycling in the State of São Paulo, Brazil </li> <p> </p> <li>Women’s Stories of Loss and Recovery from Climatic Events in the<i> </i>Pacific Islands</li> </ol>