Mona Domosh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85142 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mona Domosh |
| NOMBRES | Mona |
| APELLIDO | Domosh |
| FIRMA | DOMOSH M |
| AFILIACIONES | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 552 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
The Defiant Geographies of Bronzeville’s Policy
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
A conversation between Mona Domosh and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
As Gender, Place and Culture marks its 25th anniversary, an interview with one of the founding editors of the journal was a good place to start the celebration of feminist geography. Mona Domosh, a
Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa
In this paper I document links between the racialised biopolitics that characterised the US government interventions in the US South in the early 20th century, and the USA 's and the UK 's late colonial and early development strategies in Africa. I do so by interrogating why Thomas Campbell, the United States Department of Agriculture's ( USDA ) head of African‐American agricultural extension, was chosen by US philanthropic elites and approved by…
Historical geographies of, and for, the present
While many human geographers maintain a long-standing interest in historical analysis, we believe that there is a need to more explicitly examine the theories, methods, and, ultimately, the stakes of such work. For this forum, we invited five geographers to reflect on their own approach to historical analysis and its implications for scholarly and political debates in the present. These commentaries suggest that, at its best, historical analysis …
Radical Intradisciplinarity
This forum brings together five essays that explore the potential and the limitations of geography's intradisciplinarity. Each one, authored by a pair of geographers who share a common thematic interest but who come from different subareas of the discipline, represents the results of thinking, speaking, and writing across the methodological, conceptual, and theoretical divides that characterize our discipline and academic knowledge in general. As…
Genealogies of Race, Gender, and Place
Through a case study of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's interventions into the lives of sharecroppers and tenant farmers in early twentieth-century Alabama, I show how gendered and racialized norms of family and family life were used to keep African American farmers tied to the land, thus uncovering a relatively unexamined geography of containment. At stake for the U.S. government, local and regional leaders, and cotton plantation owners wer…
International Harvester, the U.S. South, and the makings of international development in the early 20th century
Commentary on “The Lives of Others
Practising Development at Home
Drawing on a range of works that extend from gendered historical analyses of colonialism to critical histories of development, and based on archival research in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi, I argue in this paper that what we now call international development—a form of hegemony different from but related to colonialism—needs to be understood not only as a geopolitical tool of the Cold War, but also as a technique of governance that took sh…
Remembering the making of Gender, Place and Culture
Separately and together we offer our memories of how Gender, Place and Culture came into being. In so doing we seek to make available the kind of histories that often remain hidden from view. At the same time we illustrate the fallibility of memory and the conditions of possibility that frame what we can narrate
Concluding commentary on contemporary research strategies in cultural geography
It is encouraging to see that cultural geography in the USA and UK is generating the critical, provocative, and innovative essays represented in this volume. All of the essays express directly or i
Geoeconomic Imaginations and Economic Geography in the Early Twentieth Century
The geoeconomic discourses that underpinned the commercial expansion of the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century drew on and produced an imagined geography that positioned the United States in the center of a world in which commerce and trade moved freely around a globe comprised of nations whose economic growth potentials were just being realized. Drawing on two case studies of large corporations that expanded outside the …
American capitalist experiments in revolutionary-era Russia
"Reading Matthew Farish's "The Contours of America's Cold War
Linking American Empire With the Ags
With its maxim, exploration is commercial the American Geographical Society articulated a dominant way of seeing the world in the late-nineteenth-century United States; a belief that not only would exploration lead to commercial gain--although the AGS certainly didn't deny that it would--but that exploration itself was commercial progress; mother words, the conquering of space was part of the progressive mission. As Karen Morin shows us, the AGS …
Post-Postmetropolis
This commentary reflects on the ways that the issues raised by Edward Soja in his book Postmetropolis (2000) resonate (or do not) today. It entails a re-examination of Soja's six discourses on the postmetropolis in light of the highly significant events of the past decade that have changed the ways we think about and analyze cities. It is suggested that the crises and instabilities of the 2000s have humbled analyses, bringing greater attention to…
Uncovering the Friction of Globalization
Two U.S.-based international corporations (Singer Manufacturing Company and International Harvester) fared differently in Russia during the first two decades of the twentieth century. An examination of how and why provides an important historical context for understanding the unevenness of globalization, drawing on insights provided by the "relational turn" in economic geography and the "material turn" in cultural geography. Analyzing commercial …
The world was never flat
Thomas Friedman’s 2005 book The world is flat was meant as a wake-up call to those in the United States who direct its corporate boardrooms and govern its political/economic state, a warning that globalization has brought about a level economic ‘playing field’ in which the United States might be losing the game. As rhetoric, the title certainly works well to raise fears about North America’s future economic role. It also works in concretizing a p…
Labor geographies in a time of early globalization
American Commodities in an Age of Empire
This is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building era of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unlike other empires in history, which were typically built on military power, the first American empire was primarily a commercial one
Postcolonialism and the American City
Until recently, the term postcolonial has been applied almost exclusively to cities within the context of European urbanism and empire. In this essay I explore what can be gained (or not) by thinking postcolonially about American cities. Using the case study of New York City, I examine five particular ways that a postcolonial perspective might be meaningful for understanding American cities and empire
Selling civilization
This essay builds on work that is exploring the convergence of economic and cultural approaches to understanding imperialism through an examination of the particular case of American commercial expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on my archival research into the promotional and practical strategies of five of the largest American companies that were international in sales, I suggest some of the ways that an analy…
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Toward a Feminist Historiography of Geography
Recent attempts to contextualize the history of geography have ignored the gendered construction of much of that history, while arguments for a post-modern human geography have ignored feminist theory. By examining the stories of Victorian women explorers, this essay suggests how women have contributed to the formation of geographic knowledge, and, by implication, asks what can be learned by considering the contribution of women's ways of knowing…
Geography and gender
Other Figures in Other Places
In a recent paper entitled "Travels in the postmodern", Elspeth Probyn uses the metaphors of local, locale, and location to open up a political dialogue between feminism and postmodernism, providing a particularly explicit example of a more general use of spatial figures in contemporary theoretical debate. These spatial references are not entirely figurative, but allude to our positioning within particular contexts, which both frame and are const…
Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”
The streets of mid-nineteenth-century New York City were sites of complex social engagements and economic activity. The promenades along both Broadway and Fifth Avenue were highly scripted rituals, where social mores and upper-class values were enacted and embodied on a daily basis. Focusing on analyses of three images, I argue that these streets were also the sites of political activity, but a politics that I define as “micropolitics” of “tactic…
Historical geographies of, and for, the present
While many human geographers maintain a long-standing interest in historical analysis, we believe that there is a need to more explicitly examine the theories, methods, and, ultimately, the stakes of such work. For this forum, we invited five geographers to reflect on their own approach to historical analysis and its implications for scholarly and political debates in the present. These commentaries suggest that, at its best, historical analysis …
Beyond the Frontiers of Geographical Knowledge
An examination of the lives and accomplishments of Victorian women travellers raises questions regarding the 'standards' for inclusiveness in the category geographer, and the type of knowledge deemed appropriate for the emerging profession. This reply to Stoddart's commentary clarifies why it is important to raise these questions as we attempt to create a more inclusionary historiography of geography
Geoeconomic Imaginations and Economic Geography in the Early Twentieth Century
The geoeconomic discourses that underpinned the commercial expansion of the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century drew on and produced an imagined geography that positioned the United States in the center of a world in which commerce and trade moved freely around a globe comprised of nations whose economic growth potentials were just being realized. Drawing on two case studies of large corporations that expanded outside the …
Pickles and purity
For the most part, American imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was characterized by an expansive search to secure markets for its industrial products, not to establish colonies of subjects and/or citizens. In this article, I analyse the story of Heinz Corporation, the first international American food manufacturing company, in order to begin to understand some of the ideological underpinnings of this form of imperial…
Travels with feminist historical geography
We explore in this essay the relatively uneven "travels" of feminist historical geography within the academy in order to highlight the realized and potential intellectual productivity that can result from bringing together a feminist and historical approach to understanding place and space. We outline in what ways much of feminist geography is already historical and in what ways much of historical geography is already feminist, and then turn to a…
Geography and gender
Practising Development at Home
Drawing on a range of works that extend from gendered historical analyses of colonialism to critical histories of development, and based on archival research in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi, I argue in this paper that what we now call international development—a form of hegemony different from but related to colonialism—needs to be understood not only as a geopolitical tool of the Cold War, but also as a technique of governance that took sh…
Sexing feminist geography
On the Contours of Public Space
This article explores the changing contours of the relationship between gender and the distinction between public and private spaces in western cities. Our account returns to the emergence of a modern understanding of public and private spaces to highlight its class and gender connotations. Then, focusing on middle‐class women's experiences of public spaces, we use examples from the mid‐nineteenth century and the late‐twentieth century to illustr…
The Symbolism of the Skyscraper
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
The 'Women of New York
The landscape of mid-19-century New York City was marked by pockets of consumer and leisure spaces. I argue that many of the fears and anxieties generated by this visual efflorescence of consumption focused on what became a socially constructed 'type': the New York Woman. The association of moral outrage at the dangers of consumption with spaces inhabited by the New York Woman created what I have called a fashionable moral geography. I suggest th…
Selling civilization
This essay builds on work that is exploring the convergence of economic and cultural approaches to understanding imperialism through an examination of the particular case of American commercial expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on my archival research into the promotional and practical strategies of five of the largest American companies that were international in sales, I suggest some of the ways that an analy…
A 'civilized' commerce
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago represents a turning point in American history, a point when the United States moved from an era of nation-building to one of empire-building. This paper examines the links between these eras through an analysis of the ideologies that underpinned two types of exhibits at the Exposition - depictions of Native-Americans, and commercial displays of American products sold overseas. I argue that th…
Genealogies of Race, Gender, and Place
Through a case study of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's interventions into the lives of sharecroppers and tenant farmers in early twentieth-century Alabama, I show how gendered and racialized norms of family and family life were used to keep African American farmers tied to the land, thus uncovering a relatively unexamined geography of containment. At stake for the U.S. government, local and regional leaders, and cotton plantation owners wer…
North American spaces/postcolonial stories
Labor geographies in a time of early globalization
Remembering the making of Gender, Place and Culture
Separately and together we offer our memories of how Gender, Place and Culture came into being. In so doing we seek to make available the kind of histories that often remain hidden from view. At the same time we illustrate the fallibility of memory and the conditions of possibility that frame what we can narrate
The world was never flat
Thomas Friedman’s 2005 book The world is flat was meant as a wake-up call to those in the United States who direct its corporate boardrooms and govern its political/economic state, a warning that globalization has brought about a level economic ‘playing field’ in which the United States might be losing the game. As rhetoric, the title certainly works well to raise fears about North America’s future economic role. It also works in concretizing a p…
Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa
In this paper I document links between the racialised biopolitics that characterised the US government interventions in the US South in the early 20th century, and the USA 's and the UK 's late colonial and early development strategies in Africa. I do so by interrogating why Thomas Campbell, the United States Department of Agriculture's ( USDA ) head of African‐American agricultural extension, was chosen by US philanthropic elites and approved by…
Radical Intradisciplinarity
This forum brings together five essays that explore the potential and the limitations of geography's intradisciplinarity. Each one, authored by a pair of geographers who share a common thematic interest but who come from different subareas of the discipline, represents the results of thinking, speaking, and writing across the methodological, conceptual, and theoretical divides that characterize our discipline and academic knowledge in general. As…
The human mosaic
Cultural Geography: Science of Art? - Parallel Worlds: Two Types of Culture - The Geography of Religion: Spaces and Places of Faith - Geolinguistics: A Babel of Tongues - Ethnic Geography: Homelands and Ghettos - Political Geography: A Divided World - Geodemography: Peopling the Earth - Agricultural Geography: Food from the Good Earth - Industries: A Faustian Bargain - Urbanization: The City in Time and Space - Inside the City: A Cultural Mosaic …
Imagining New York's first skyscrapers, 1875–1910
The Symbolism of the Skyscraper
The new urban landscape
Shaping the Commercial City
The built forms of New York City and Boston differed dramatically in the second half of the nineteenth century. This paper focuses on the changing forms of their retail districts and evaluates the divergence in those patterns in relation to their socioeconomic context. Historical atlases and city directories identified the locations of department stores, which were used as indicators of the retail districts while primary and secondary historical …
Toward a Feminist Historiography of Geography
Recent attempts to contextualize the history of geography have ignored the gendered construction of much of that history, while arguments for a post-modern human geography have ignored feminist theory. By examining the stories of Victorian women explorers, this essay suggests how women have contributed to the formation of geographic knowledge, and, by implication, asks what can be learned by considering the contribution of women's ways of knowing…
Beyond the Frontiers of Geographical Knowledge
An examination of the lives and accomplishments of Victorian women travellers raises questions regarding the 'standards' for inclusiveness in the category geographer, and the type of knowledge deemed appropriate for the emerging profession. This reply to Stoddart's commentary clarifies why it is important to raise these questions as we attempt to create a more inclusionary historiography of geography
Controlling urban form
Urban Imagery
Other Figures in Other Places
In a recent paper entitled "Travels in the postmodern", Elspeth Probyn uses the metaphors of local, locale, and location to open up a political dialogue between feminism and postmodernism, providing a particularly explicit example of a more general use of spatial figures in contemporary theoretical debate. These spatial references are not entirely figurative, but allude to our positioning within particular contexts, which both frame and are const…
Imagining Our Cities
Feminism and Urban Imagery
(1995). FEMINISM AND URBAN IMAGERY. Urban Geography: Vol. 16, Chinese Cities and Urbanization II, pp. 643-648
Arena symposium
A 'Feminine' Building? Relations Between Gender Ideology and Aesthetic Ideology in Turn-of-the-Century America
Invented Cities
Geography and gender
Geography and gender
On the Contours of Public Space
This article explores the changing contours of the relationship between gender and the distinction between public and private spaces in western cities. Our account returns to the emergence of a modern understanding of public and private spaces to highlight its class and gender connotations. Then, focusing on middle‐class women's experiences of public spaces, we use examples from the mid‐nineteenth century and the late‐twentieth century to illustr…
Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”
The streets of mid-nineteenth-century New York City were sites of complex social engagements and economic activity. The promenades along both Broadway and Fifth Avenue were highly scripted rituals, where social mores and upper-class values were enacted and embodied on a daily basis. Focusing on analyses of three images, I argue that these streets were also the sites of political activity, but a politics that I define as “micropolitics” of “tactic…
Sexing feminist geography
Invented Cities
Journal Article Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York & Boston. By Mona Domosh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. x, 185 pp. $30.00 and The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History. By Richard Lehan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi, 330 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-21042-5. Paper, $17.95 Get access Carl Smith Carl Smith Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois Search…
Building Lives
The 'Women of New York
The landscape of mid-19-century New York City was marked by pockets of consumer and leisure spaces. I argue that many of the fears and anxieties generated by this visual efflorescence of consumption focused on what became a socially constructed 'type': the New York Woman. The association of moral outrage at the dangers of consumption with spaces inhabited by the New York Woman created what I have called a fashionable moral geography. I suggest th…
A 'civilized' commerce
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago represents a turning point in American history, a point when the United States moved from an era of nation-building to one of empire-building. This paper examines the links between these eras through an analysis of the ideologies that underpinned two types of exhibits at the Exposition - depictions of Native-Americans, and commercial displays of American products sold overseas. I argue that th…
North American spaces/postcolonial stories
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