Linda Peake
Biographic Data
| ID | 1165026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Peake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Peake |
| SIGNATURE | PEAKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3698-0269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 837 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Women’s Embodied Experiences of Debt in the Urban Global South
Feminist political economy has been enhanced by understanding the urban as a dynamic site of social reproduction. This article reveals how one aspect of social reproduction – women’s accounting for and managing the sociality around debt, that is, caring for debt – is expressed through embodied gendered norms that play out in the everyday lives of women in low-income urban neighborhoods in the Global South. Drawing on geo-ethnographic research, th…
Urban geography in crisis times
In this short intervention addressing the impact of crises on geographical knowledge practices, we, members of GenUrb (a multi-sited, longitudinal, partnered urban research project), ask, "what counts as crisis?", sketching out epistemological and methodological points about our project's engagement with this call. We query the adeptness of dominant Eurocentric epistemologies in addressing crises, adopting the work of Bedour Alagraa, who places c…
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures
How do decolonial feminist urban imaginaries of urban futures begin to interrogate twenty-first century urban life?The urban futures signaled in this special issue highlight three dimensions of urban imaginaries.The first connects the privatization and commodification of urban infrastructures to state-based and capitalist discursive efforts to make the urban.The second concerns temporal convergences of past, present and future in visions of the u…
Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city
Drawing on GenUrb’s comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities in five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China—we engage in an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in women’s everyday lives. Our research employs a variety of context-specific methods, including virtual methods, phone interviews, and socially-distanced interviews to enga…
Mental Health, Geography, and the Academy
The presence of mental health issues in the Western academy is increasingly hard to avoid, as the stress of academic life takes its toll on the mental health of its members and practices of academic knowledge production. This entry addresses why we need to think about mental health, what we know about experiences of mental health in the academy, and what is being done by geographers and others. As a discipline, geography has not been the first to…
Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision
Planetary urbanization
In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary urbanization we argue that, while they have successfully marked some important limits of mainstream thinking on the urban, their privileging of epistemology cannot produce an urban theory for our time. Engaging in a symptomatic reading of their work, and with a focus on the implications of their limited mobilization of social ontology-or Lefebvre's ontology of the ever…
Into the 1990s
Women&s;s political participation has been viewed by as a function of women&s;s stake in the political system, either resulting from their activity outside the home or the politicization of the issues in which they were traditionally interested. The interest in international politics is a timely one. Feminist political geography, as can be seen from its meagre output so far, has much catching up to do. Women&s;s oppression was one of the question…
Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity, the ubiquitously held belief that heterosexuality is natural, and thus normal, is a useful concept for investigating embodied sociospatial configurations of gender, sex, and sexuality. It has been introduced into the study of geography by both feminist and queer geographers who have shown how space becomes heterosexualized (or not) through analyses of gendered, racialized, and sexualized practices, encounters, and relations in …
Feminist Methodologies
Feminist methodologies refer to the theoretical underpinning of the practices, procedures, and rules used by feminists to conduct research. The particular contributions made by feminist geographers to debates on feminist methodologies relate to the intersections of space, power, and knowledge. These contributions are fourfold: spatializing existing feminist approaches to knowledge production; new spatialized contributions to feminist methodologie…
Anthropogeography
Anthropogeography refers to a mode of systematic analysis, adopted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, of the geographical distribution of societies, the relationship between migration and the physical environment, and the influence of environments upon people. Developed by the German geographer Ratzel, it is an approach that is now rarely mentioned given its association with environmental determinism, social Darwinism, and its …
Women in Geography
Although women have a long history in the discipline of geography, dating from the nineteenth century, they did not move into it in significant numbers until the 1980s. Questions about the representation of women in the discipline are starting to move from a concern with overall numbers vis‐à‐vis men to the chronic underrepresentation of women of color. Institutions representing women started to emerge in the 1970s, and a number of types of organ…
Breaking the silence
Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there are cultural, institutional, political, and intersectional factors that impede active engagement with mental health and wellness in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider mental health and wellness as professional development issues of concern to us all
Cultivating an ethic of wellness in Geography
Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction we discuss two particular foci: defining the crisis of mental health and we…
The Twenty-First-Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban
The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dismissal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbrication of the gendered…
On feminism and feminist allies in knowledge production in urban geography
In this response to Ananya Roy’s paper, I ask: who are the allies of feminist knowledge production about the urban? To explore this question, I specifically ask what feminist scholars may find of use in two books, namely Arrival Cities by Doug Saunders and Implosions/Explosions edited by Neil Brenner, that are representative of two major discourses on the urban, respectively, the “Urban Age” and planetary urbanization, currently favored by policy…
The Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture
It was Suzanne Mackenzie who first introduced me to the radical potential of a feminist mode of knowledge production in geography. In this paper, in Suzanne's honour, I ask how well feminist work in Anglo‐American geography is faring in terms of still generating new possibilities of knowledge and of existence. In asking this question I explore the work feminist interventions have done, and not done, in advancing possibilities within the disciplin…
Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban
Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban Linda Peake (York University) and Martina Rieker (American University at Cairo) Urban Neoliberalism, Urban Insecurity and Urban Violence: Exploring the Gender Dimensions Leslie Kern (Mount Allison University) and Beverley Mullings (Queen's University) Feminism, Urban Knowledge and the Killing of Politics Melissa Wright (University of Pennsylvania) Transnational City Lives: Changing Patterns of Care…
Mapping Women, Making Politics
Geographies of friendships
Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. We consider how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s and you…
In, out and unspeakably about
There appears to be something of an anxiety-producing impasse in British social geography with repeated calls to examine its positionality. Simultaneously, British, indeed Anglo-American, social geography appears to be enjoying something of a renaissance in the new millennium. I argue that such a paradoxical situation owes its existence to the hegemonic narrative of Anglo-American social geography. Starting with an overview of the development of …
Gender, Race, Sexuality
In remembrance of Julie Graham
This is not an obituary. There are others better placed to write that. This is a letter to and a conversation with a very important entity in feminist geography. Very sadly, the feminist community
Moving on up
Any journal, but especially a feminist journal, needs a change of personnel in order to breathe new life into it. It has now been six years since I joined the Editorial Team of this journal and it
Introduction to Engin Isin's Being Political
Unnatural discourse. ‘Race’ and gender in geography
Geographers’ long‐term involvement in the construction ‘race’ and gender has occurred through literally and metaphorically mapping out the world in ways that highlight, perpetuate and naturalize difference. This paper provides a critical analysis of the naturalization of these categories by revealing parallels in their social construction and in the ways in which they have been independently conceptualized. The focus is on the extent to which ‘ra…
Racism out of Place
(2000). Racism out of Place: Thoughts on Whiteness and an Antiracist Geography in the New Millennium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 392-403
Planetary urbanization
In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary urbanization we argue that, while they have successfully marked some important limits of mainstream thinking on the urban, their privileging of epistemology cannot produce an urban theory for our time. Engaging in a symptomatic reading of their work, and with a focus on the implications of their limited mobilization of social ontology-or Lefebvre's ontology of the ever…
Geographies of friendships
Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. We consider how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s and you…
Race' and Sexuality
The topic of patriarchy has received little direct attention by geographers but it is addressed in this paper as a central tenet of the structuring of urban social space. Drawing on an outline of the various ways in which the city has been treated as a site embodying patriarchal principles, the author teases out the heterosexist and white cultural constructions that permeate our treatment of patriarchy, A call is made for explicit attention to be…
Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision
The Twenty-First-Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban
The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dismissal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbrication of the gendered…
On feminism and feminist allies in knowledge production in urban geography
In this response to Ananya Roy’s paper, I ask: who are the allies of feminist knowledge production about the urban? To explore this question, I specifically ask what feminist scholars may find of use in two books, namely Arrival Cities by Doug Saunders and Implosions/Explosions edited by Neil Brenner, that are representative of two major discourses on the urban, respectively, the “Urban Age” and planetary urbanization, currently favored by policy…
Racing geography into the new millennium
There appears to be a renaissance regarding questions of ‘race’ and racism within geography in general, and within North American geography in particular. While matters of ‘race’ have always been central to the practice of geographical scholarship, whether explicitly foregrounded or not, the past ten years have seen a burgeoning engagement with racialized geographies linking geographic research with issues more widely extant in social science lit…
Women in British geography revisited
This paper reports the results of a resurvey of the gender composition of British geography departments. It reveals limited changes over the last decade, suggests some reasons for this and concludes with an outline programme for actions to facilitate change
Women, human settlements, and housing
In, out and unspeakably about
There appears to be something of an anxiety-producing impasse in British social geography with repeated calls to examine its positionality. Simultaneously, British, indeed Anglo-American, social geography appears to be enjoying something of a renaissance in the new millennium. I argue that such a paradoxical situation owes its existence to the hegemonic narrative of Anglo-American social geography. Starting with an overview of the development of …
Racializing the Canadian landscape
Canada is a land troubled by questions of race and space, whether we are speaking of First Nations land claims, Quebec nationalism, or the 'absented presence of others. (Walcott 1997, 37)
Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban
Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban Linda Peake (York University) and Martina Rieker (American University at Cairo) Urban Neoliberalism, Urban Insecurity and Urban Violence: Exploring the Gender Dimensions Leslie Kern (Mount Allison University) and Beverley Mullings (Queen's University) Feminism, Urban Knowledge and the Killing of Politics Melissa Wright (University of Pennsylvania) Transnational City Lives: Changing Patterns of Care…
Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city
Drawing on GenUrb’s comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities in five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China—we engage in an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in women’s everyday lives. Our research employs a variety of context-specific methods, including virtual methods, phone interviews, and socially-distanced interviews to enga…
Toward an Understanding of the Interconnectedness of Women's Lives
The “racial” reproduction of labor forms the central concern of this paper, which comprises an investigation of low-income African-American and Anglo-American wome's engagement in waged and unwaged reproductive activities in a downtown area of Grand Rapids, Michigan. A snowball sample was conducted with 97 women. n“Race” was shown to structure options in relation to occupations, access to transportation, and child care provision, as well as forma…
Cultivating an ethic of wellness in Geography
Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction we discuss two particular foci: defining the crisis of mental health and we…
Toward a Social Geography of the City
Focusing on processes of racialization in the lives of women in lowincome households, this article aims to contribute to a social geography of the city through a study of the feminization of poverty. Data were collected from a snowball sample of approximately 100 African- and Anglo- American women in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1989. Emphasizing the need for localized accounts of the feminization of poverty, attention is paid to specific aspects o…
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures
How do decolonial feminist urban imaginaries of urban futures begin to interrogate twenty-first century urban life?The urban futures signaled in this special issue highlight three dimensions of urban imaginaries.The first connects the privatization and commodification of urban infrastructures to state-based and capitalist discursive efforts to make the urban.The second concerns temporal convergences of past, present and future in visions of the u…
The Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture
It was Suzanne Mackenzie who first introduced me to the radical potential of a feminist mode of knowledge production in geography. In this paper, in Suzanne's honour, I ask how well feminist work in Anglo‐American geography is faring in terms of still generating new possibilities of knowledge and of existence. In asking this question I explore the work feminist interventions have done, and not done, in advancing possibilities within the disciplin…
Urban geography in crisis times
In this short intervention addressing the impact of crises on geographical knowledge practices, we, members of GenUrb (a multi-sited, longitudinal, partnered urban research project), ask, "what counts as crisis?", sketching out epistemological and methodological points about our project's engagement with this call. We query the adeptness of dominant Eurocentric epistemologies in addressing crises, adopting the work of Bedour Alagraa, who places c…
Breaking the silence
Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there are cultural, institutional, political, and intersectional factors that impede active engagement with mental health and wellness in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider mental health and wellness as professional development issues of concern to us all
The challenge of feminist geography
(1989). The challenge of feminist geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 90-92
Moving on up
Any journal, but especially a feminist journal, needs a change of personnel in order to breathe new life into it. It has now been six years since I joined the Editorial Team of this journal and it
Introduction to Engin Isin's Being Political
Racial exclusionism and the city
Teaching and transformation
Women, human settlements, and housing
Women in Cities
City and society - a feminist reformation of urban politics, L.Bondi and L.Peake balancing our space and time - the impact of women's organization on the British city 1920-1980, S.Mackenzie food retailing and changing gender relations at home and work, S.Bowlby women and young children - the constraints on women in the urban environment, J.Tivers women's low travel mobility - a function of gender roles, L.Pickup women, leisure and bingo - a study…
Gender and the city
This chapter examines the importance of gender relations in urban politics. During the last decade, the concept ‘urban’ has been the subject of extensive debate. Previously, cities had often been classified according to the industries located within their boundaries or hinterlands. This approach presupposed a direct connection between local productive activities and the sustenance of the local, urban population. However, the city is no longer the…
Travails of teaching geography
The restless analyst’
An edited typescript of an interview with David Harvey, in which his academic development and his views on teaching and research are explored
The challenge of feminist geography
(1989). The challenge of feminist geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 90-92
The West Indies
Into the 1990s
Women in British geography revisited
This paper reports the results of a resurvey of the gender composition of British geography departments. It reveals limited changes over the last decade, suggests some reasons for this and concludes with an outline programme for actions to facilitate change
Race' and Sexuality
The topic of patriarchy has received little direct attention by geographers but it is addressed in this paper as a central tenet of the structuring of urban social space. Drawing on an outline of the various ways in which the city has been treated as a site embodying patriarchal principles, the author teases out the heterosexist and white cultural constructions that permeate our treatment of patriarchy, A call is made for explicit attention to be…
‘Proper Words in Proper Places …’ Or, of Young Turks and Old Turkeys’
Unnatural discourse. ‘Race’ and gender in geography
Geographers’ long‐term involvement in the construction ‘race’ and gender has occurred through literally and metaphorically mapping out the world in ways that highlight, perpetuate and naturalize difference. This paper provides a critical analysis of the naturalization of these categories by revealing parallels in their social construction and in the ways in which they have been independently conceptualized. The focus is on the extent to which ‘ra…
Toward an Understanding of the Interconnectedness of Women's Lives
The “racial” reproduction of labor forms the central concern of this paper, which comprises an investigation of low-income African-American and Anglo-American wome's engagement in waged and unwaged reproductive activities in a downtown area of Grand Rapids, Michigan. A snowball sample was conducted with 97 women. n“Race” was shown to structure options in relation to occupations, access to transportation, and child care provision, as well as forma…
Toward a Social Geography of the City
Focusing on processes of racialization in the lives of women in lowincome households, this article aims to contribute to a social geography of the city through a study of the feminization of poverty. Data were collected from a snowball sample of approximately 100 African- and Anglo- American women in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1989. Emphasizing the need for localized accounts of the feminization of poverty, attention is paid to specific aspects o…
Racism out of Place
(2000). Racism out of Place: Thoughts on Whiteness and an Antiracist Geography in the New Millennium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 392-403
Development Arrested. Race, Power and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
Racing geography into the new millennium
There appears to be a renaissance regarding questions of ‘race’ and racism within geography in general, and within North American geography in particular. While matters of ‘race’ have always been central to the practice of geographical scholarship, whether explicitly foregrounded or not, the past ten years have seen a burgeoning engagement with racialized geographies linking geographic research with issues more widely extant in social science lit…
Racializing the Canadian landscape
Canada is a land troubled by questions of race and space, whether we are speaking of First Nations land claims, Quebec nationalism, or the 'absented presence of others. (Walcott 1997, 37)
Policies and Practices for an Antiracist Geography at the Millennium
As we enter the new millennium, geographers have a momentous opportunity to reflect upon the historical development of our discipline and the academic culture within which it thrives, with the aim of setting out an antiracist agenda. We advocate a fundamental refashioning of the discipline, not simply an extension of its research agenda; for racism, like gender, is not just another item in the lexicon of geographical subjects. The agenda includes…
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from …
Introduction to Engin Isin's Being Political
Moving on up
Any journal, but especially a feminist journal, needs a change of personnel in order to breathe new life into it. It has now been six years since I joined the Editorial Team of this journal and it
Gender, Race, Sexuality
Sociology (36 works) · Gender Studies (25 works) · Political science (25 works) · Geography (22 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Social science (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (12 works) · Rural development and sustainability (11 works)