Ann M Oberhauser
Biographic Data
| ID | 217902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann M Oberhauser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann M |
| FAMILY NAME | Oberhauser |
| SIGNATURE | OBERHAUSER A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0732-1371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Complicating Work–Life Balance in Higher Education: Perspectives from Geography
This article examines how faculty in higher education navigate the demands of work, domestic responsibilities, caregiving, and overall health and well-being. The contested nature of work–life balance among academics is embedded in gender and other social relations that are shaped by institutional and societal norms. Our analysis draws from a national survey of members of the American Association of Geographers conducted by the Status of Women in …
Enhancing the Climate in Geography Through Diversity and Inclusion
Women and underrepresented groups in higher education face persistent barriers stemming from harassment, discrimination, and bias. This article examines gender and other inequities in higher education to highlight how these issues create a hostile climate for women and marginalized groups in the discipline of geography. Our analysis is grounded in a feminist conceptual framework and stress process theory and draws from survey data collected by th…
Experiences of Women AAG Presidents: Leading Through Diverse Voices
Presidents of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) play crucial roles in the direction and health of the organization and the field of geography. The social and academic backgrounds of these leaders often influence the initiatives and priorities they implement during their tenure as president. During its 119-year history, only eighteen AAG presidents were women. These women have served as role models and change agents who significantly i…
Populism and Identity Politics in the U.S. Heartland
The rise of populism on the political right in the U.S. and Europe in recent decades reflects a significant shift in political culture. This populism has been associated with the rejection of mainstream politics and increased hostility toward immigrants, racialized minorities, and other marginalized groups who are seen as threats to economic security and hegemonic social identities. In the U.S. Heartland, several key states flipped from Democrat …
In Their Own Voices: The Stories and Status of Women in Geography in the United States
Barriers to Academic Advancement in Geography: Do Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Matter
In Memoriam: Janice E. J. Monk (1937–2024)
Towards feminist geographies of livelihoods: Introduction
In this introduction to the themed section, Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods, we argue that feminist foundations have been sidelined in broader livelihoods frameworks and approaches. We contend that feminist geographies greatly enrich the field of livelihood studies, helping to better understand the role of social difference and intersectionality in pursuing livelihoods. Our discussion also introduces the four papers to the themed sect…
Feminist livelihood studies: Mapping future directions
Feminist approaches to livelihoods deeply enrich development studies by focusing on gender, social difference, intrahousehold considerations, and other manifestations of power. In this paper, we suggest three pillars of feminist livelihood studies that advance debates in this field. First, postcolonialism and decoloniality are separate but related frameworks essential for situating feminist approaches to livelihoods. Second, social-relational and…
Populism and Identity Politics in the U.S. Heartland
The rise of populism on the political right in the U.S. and Europe in recent decades reflects a significant shift in political culture. This populism has been associated with the rejection of mainstream politics and increased hostility toward immigrants, racialized minorities, and other marginalized groups who are seen as threats to economic security and hegemonic social identities. In the U.S. Heartland, several key states flipped from Democrat …
Redefining Our Identity, Recognizing Our Challenges: GPOW Becomes the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
Members of the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group (FGSG) of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and affiliated geographers have engaged in ongoing debates around its mission and identity. Recent discussions within this specialty group precipitated the formation of an ad hoc committee to move this initiative forward, culminating in the name change of the specialty group from Geographic Perspectives on Women (GPOW) to Feminist Geographi…
A space for feminist mentoring: The role of Geographic Perspectives on Women (GPOW) specialty group in higher education
Higher education and organizations within academic disciplines are important spaces for mentoring and other forms of networking. These spaces, however, are often situated in environments that limit equitable and inclusive opportunities for early career and underrepresented scholars to effectively engage in mentoring. This paper contributes to critical feminist scholarship that examines how organizations in higher education can offer supportive me…
Political Moderation and Polarization in the Heartland: Economics, Rurality, and Social Identity in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
The 2016 U.S. presidential election was a watershed event that signaled decreasing political moderation and increasing partisan polarization, authoritarianism, and ethno-nationalism. Iowa, located at the center of the American Heartland, swung to the political right more than any other state. Multivariate regression analysis of county-level data is used to determine the relative contribution of factors reputed to have caused voters to support Tru…
Mentoring early career women geographers in the neoliberal academy: Dialogue, reflexivity, and ethics of care
Faculty mentoring is a critical part of career advancement in higher education. Programmes that provide mentoring for early career scholars, especially women and underrepresented faculty members, are shown to support and improve the success rate of both faculty and their universities. This paper examines the challenges and rewards of mentoring women faculty from a feminist geographical perspective. Mentoring is often situated in hierarchical and …
Gender and Development
The field of gender and development grew out of a movement to highlight women's roles and gendered power relations in many aspects of the development process. Since the mid‐twentieth century, this field has expanded to critically examine development through a feminist lens that focuses on socioeconomic and political inequalities and uneven spatial processes. Specifically, development theory and practice have shifted from structural approaches to …
Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context
(Re)constructing rural–urban spaces: Gendered livelihoods, migration, and natural resources in South Africa
Young adults’ use of communication technology within their romantic relationships and associations with attachment style
Environment and Development: Selected Themes from Eastern and Southern Africa
Ethics and transparency in the field: Lessons from the Arab Gulf
This viewpoint draws from feminist scholarship to critically examine an academic partnership between two universities based in the USA and in the Arab Gulf. In particular, feminist geography is used to inform cross-cultural projects such as this academic exchange among Arabs and Americans by focusing on ethics and transparency in the field. The complexity of cultural and institutional dynamics in this and related projects impacts our work with pa…
Heavy burdens: Gendered livelihood strategies of porters in Accra, Ghana
Urban poverty is invariably linked to sociospatial dimensions of livelihood strategies. Gendered social relations, for example, have been seen to impact the ability of females to access resources, to gain assets, and to engage in viable income‐generating activities. Focussing on the livelihood strategies of the urban poor as they intersect with neoliberal economic reforms in contemporary Ghana, this paper draws on a field‐based survey of porters …
Globalization and gendered livelihoods in sub‐Saharan Africa: Introduction
Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging a Digital Divide. Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci
(2011). Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging a Digital Divide. Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci. Urban Geography: Vol. 32, Urban Legacies of the Winter Olympics, pp. 920-922
Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa. By Gillian Hart
Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives by Cindi Katz
Key Words: children's geographiesglobalizationneoliberalismuneven development Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnn M. OberhauserReviewed by
Gendered livelihoods in diverse global contexts: An introduction
Gendered livelihoods encompass the material realities and ideological processes that shape and are shaped by economic strategies in diverse geographical locations. The articles in this theme issue
Gender and Household Economic Strategies in Rural Appalachia
In recent decades, many Appalachian households have experienced declining incomes due to the loss of traditional male jobs in the mining and manufacturing sectors. One response to this decline has been an increase in female employment in formal sector activities. Another response is homework, or the home-based production of goods and services for sale in the formal and informal sectors. In rural Appalachia, where formal jobs are often unavailable…
Women's collective economic strategies and political transformation in rural South Africa
This article examines the economic processes and socio‐political institutions that shape women's involvement in community projects. Feminist materialism and postcolonial theory provide the framework to analyze these livelihood strategies as they are grounded in the material conditions of women's lives. The empirical study is based in a rural northern province of South Africa where colonialism and apartheid have contributed to extreme economic and…
Mentoring early career women geographers in the neoliberal academy: Dialogue, reflexivity, and ethics of care
Faculty mentoring is a critical part of career advancement in higher education. Programmes that provide mentoring for early career scholars, especially women and underrepresented faculty members, are shown to support and improve the success rate of both faculty and their universities. This paper examines the challenges and rewards of mentoring women faculty from a feminist geographical perspective. Mentoring is often situated in hierarchical and …
Political Moderation and Polarization in the Heartland: Economics, Rurality, and Social Identity in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
The 2016 U.S. presidential election was a watershed event that signaled decreasing political moderation and increasing partisan polarization, authoritarianism, and ethno-nationalism. Iowa, located at the center of the American Heartland, swung to the political right more than any other state. Multivariate regression analysis of county-level data is used to determine the relative contribution of factors reputed to have caused voters to support Tru…
Scaling Gender and Diverse Economies: Perspectives from Appalachia and South Africa
Social and Spatial Patterns Under Fordism and Flexible Accumulation
Current debate surrounding Fordism and flexible accumulation centers on explaining their transition and the implications for capital and labor. This article disagrees with the argument that technology and capital competition are the basis for transition and focuses instead on the labor process. Using a case study of the French automobile industry since the Second World War, the analysis examines the transition in production and the link between s…
Examining Gender and Community Through Critical Pedagogy
A growing body of literature in critical geography challenges authoritative approaches to the production (and consumption) of knowledge in higher education. Feminist perspectives have contributed to this literature by emphasising the multiple and often conflicting voices of subjects, including those within the classroom. This paper draws from critical and feminist pedagogy in geography to examine student engagement with gender issues in the commu…
Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context
(Re)constructing rural–urban spaces: Gendered livelihoods, migration, and natural resources in South Africa
Labour, Production and the State: Decentralization of the French Automobile Industry
OBERHAUSER A. (1987) Labour, production and the state: decentralization of the French automobile industry, Reg. Studies 21, 445–458. This paper analyses the influence of the production process and state intervention on the spatial organization of the automobile industry in France since 1950. During this period, the state intervened in industrial production and labour relations to maintain economic acitivity in domestic regions. The production pro…
Relocating Gender and Rural Economic Strategies
In recent decades, increasing entrepreneurial activities among women have contributed to shifting livelihood strategies at the household, community, and regional scales. In this paper I examine home-based work in an economic network to highlight the intersection of gender and economic practices in rural Appalachia. The research demonstrates that these livelihood strategies both construct and are shaped by dynamic material conditions and social pr…
Towards feminist geographies of livelihoods: Introduction
In this introduction to the themed section, Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods, we argue that feminist foundations have been sidelined in broader livelihoods frameworks and approaches. We contend that feminist geographies greatly enrich the field of livelihood studies, helping to better understand the role of social difference and intersectionality in pursuing livelihoods. Our discussion also introduces the four papers to the themed sect…
An assessment of women’s access to natural resources through communal projects in South Africa
Semiperipheral industrialization in the global economy: Transition in the South African automobile industry
Feminist livelihood studies: Mapping future directions
Feminist approaches to livelihoods deeply enrich development studies by focusing on gender, social difference, intrahousehold considerations, and other manifestations of power. In this paper, we suggest three pillars of feminist livelihood studies that advance debates in this field. First, postcolonialism and decoloniality are separate but related frameworks essential for situating feminist approaches to livelihoods. Second, social-relational and…
A space for feminist mentoring: The role of Geographic Perspectives on Women (GPOW) specialty group in higher education
Higher education and organizations within academic disciplines are important spaces for mentoring and other forms of networking. These spaces, however, are often situated in environments that limit equitable and inclusive opportunities for early career and underrepresented scholars to effectively engage in mentoring. This paper contributes to critical feminist scholarship that examines how organizations in higher education can offer supportive me…
Unions and Communities under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor
State Policy, Employment and the Spatial Organization of Production: The Establishment of an Automobile Plant in the North of France
Labour, Production and the State: Decentralization of the French Automobile Industry
OBERHAUSER A. (1987) Labour, production and the state: decentralization of the French automobile industry, Reg. Studies 21, 445–458. This paper analyses the influence of the production process and state intervention on the spatial organization of the automobile industry in France since 1950. During this period, the state intervened in industrial production and labour relations to maintain economic acitivity in domestic regions. The production pro…
Social and Spatial Patterns Under Fordism and Flexible Accumulation
Current debate surrounding Fordism and flexible accumulation centers on explaining their transition and the implications for capital and labor. This article disagrees with the argument that technology and capital competition are the basis for transition and focuses instead on the labor process. Using a case study of the French automobile industry since the Second World War, the analysis examines the transition in production and the link between s…
State Policy, Employment and the Spatial Organization of Production: The Establishment of an Automobile Plant in the North of France
Wrecking a Region: State Politics, Party Politics, and Regional Change in North East England
Unions and Communities under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor
Structural Change in the World Economy
1. Introduction John Dunning and Allan Webster, University of Reading 2. U.K Manufacturing Industry : Structural Change, Competitiveness and Future Propsects - a Lesson for Other Countries ? John Reynolds, Prudential-Bache Capital Funding Ltd 3. Historical Perspectives on Structural Change and Economic Decline, Stephen Nicholas, University of New South Wales 4. Competition, Innovation and Industrial Performance, Kirsty Hughes, University of Manch…
Semiperipheral industrialization in the global economy: Transition in the South African automobile industry
Towards a New Economic Order: Postfordism, Ecology and Democracy
Preface. Introduction. 1. The Fordist Compromise. 2. The End of the Golden Age. 3. What Should be Done?. 4. The Impasses of Liberal--Productivism. 5. The Ecological Crisis. 6. Time for the Alternative. 7. Towards a new Wages Pact. 8. The Growth of Free Time. 9. The Welfare Community. 10. A Non--Aggressive International Economic Order. 11. The Alternative -- A Project for Europe. Postscript to the English Edition
Gender and Household Economic Strategies in Rural Appalachia
In recent decades, many Appalachian households have experienced declining incomes due to the loss of traditional male jobs in the mining and manufacturing sectors. One response to this decline has been an increase in female employment in formal sector activities. Another response is homework, or the home-based production of goods and services for sale in the formal and informal sectors. In rural Appalachia, where formal jobs are often unavailable…
Trading Industries, Trading Regions: International Trade, American Industry, and Regional Economic Development
Getting By: Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development
Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism
Examining Gender and Community Through Critical Pedagogy
A growing body of literature in critical geography challenges authoritative approaches to the production (and consumption) of knowledge in higher education. Feminist perspectives have contributed to this literature by emphasising the multiple and often conflicting voices of subjects, including those within the classroom. This paper draws from critical and feminist pedagogy in geography to examine student engagement with gender issues in the commu…
Relocating Gender and Rural Economic Strategies
In recent decades, increasing entrepreneurial activities among women have contributed to shifting livelihood strategies at the household, community, and regional scales. In this paper I examine home-based work in an economic network to highlight the intersection of gender and economic practices in rural Appalachia. The research demonstrates that these livelihood strategies both construct and are shaped by dynamic material conditions and social pr…
Women's collective economic strategies and political transformation in rural South Africa
This article examines the economic processes and socio‐political institutions that shape women's involvement in community projects. Feminist materialism and postcolonial theory provide the framework to analyze these livelihood strategies as they are grounded in the material conditions of women's lives. The empirical study is based in a rural northern province of South Africa where colonialism and apartheid have contributed to extreme economic and…
Gendered livelihoods in diverse global contexts: An introduction
Gendered livelihoods encompass the material realities and ideological processes that shape and are shaped by economic strategies in diverse geographical locations. The articles in this theme issue
Scaling Gender and Diverse Economies: Perspectives from Appalachia and South Africa
An assessment of women’s access to natural resources through communal projects in South Africa
Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives by Cindi Katz
Key Words: children's geographiesglobalizationneoliberalismuneven development Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnn M. OberhauserReviewed by
Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa. By Gillian Hart
Heavy burdens: Gendered livelihood strategies of porters in Accra, Ghana
Urban poverty is invariably linked to sociospatial dimensions of livelihood strategies. Gendered social relations, for example, have been seen to impact the ability of females to access resources, to gain assets, and to engage in viable income‐generating activities. Focussing on the livelihood strategies of the urban poor as they intersect with neoliberal economic reforms in contemporary Ghana, this paper draws on a field‐based survey of porters …
Globalization and gendered livelihoods in sub‐Saharan Africa: Introduction
Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging a Digital Divide. Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci
(2011). Information and Communication Technology Geographies: Strategies for Bridging a Digital Divide. Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci. Urban Geography: Vol. 32, Urban Legacies of the Winter Olympics, pp. 920-922
Young adults’ use of communication technology within their romantic relationships and associations with attachment style
Environment and Development: Selected Themes from Eastern and Southern Africa
Sociology (29 works) · Geography (23 works) · Political science (23 works) · Economics (16 works) · Economic geography (14 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Law (9 works)