Subjectivities, knowledges, and feminist geographies : the subjects and ethics of social research / Liz Bondi ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bondi, L. (Liz)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Feminist geography.

Spatial behavior.

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

vii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2002]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Embodiment, Emotions, and Subjectivities

1 All in the Mind?: Women, Agoraphobia, and the Subject of Self-Help / Joyce Davidson 15

2 Understanding the Geography of Women's Fear: Toward a Reconceptualization of Fear and Space / Carina Listerborn 34

3 Embodying Agoraphobia: Rethinking Geographies of Women's Fear / Ruth Bankey 44

4 "Once More with Feeling": Putting Emotion into Geographies of Music / Nichola Wood 57

Part II Dualisms, Bodies, and Subjectivities

5 Borderline Bodies / Lynda Johnston 75

6 Crossing Boundaries: Gendered Spaces and Bodies in Golf / Shonagh McEwan 90

7 Talking with the Magician's Apprentice: Fleshing Out GIS Users / Susan Lilley 106

Part III Knowledges and Subjectivities

8 Performing Art and Identities: Artists of Palestinian Origin in Canada / Mona Marshy 123

9 Tasteful Visions: The Cultivation of "an" Audience for Art / Anja-Maaike Green 140

10 "Dependency": New Labour Welfare Reform Policy and the Production of the Passive, Dependent Benefit Claimant / Niamh O'Connor 158

11 Hot Gossip: Rumor as Politics / Rosaleen Duffy 172

Part IV Intersubjectivities in Research Practice

12 Whose Voice Is That? Making Space for Subjectivities in Interviews / Hannah Avis 191

13 Research Ethics in Practice / Amanda Bingley 208

14 Telling Stories, Making Selves / Victoria Ingrid Einagel 223

15 Situated Ethics and Feminist Ethnography in a West of Scotland Hospice / Bella Vivat 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-282) and index.

ISBN:

0742515613

OCLC:

48966583