Caroline V Faria
Biographic Data
| ID | 222308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline V Faria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline V |
| FAMILY NAME | Faria |
| SIGNATURE | FARIA C V |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5375-6683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 599 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
“The Ultimate Hustlers”: Markets, Single Mothers, and Radical Care Praxis in Kampala, Uganda
In this article, we examine precarious labor geographies via a feminist analysis of care and social reproduction. To do so, we center the lives of women traders working in the busy downtown market spaces of Kampala, Uganda. We examine their creative and collective business strategies, and the broader networks of family, friends, and other dependents they support. Through their testimonies, we trace the legacies of colonial capitalist histories an…
Patriarchy, colonial capitalism and the ‘gender mainstreaming’ of academic labor: Tensions for women scholars in the Global South
Embodied encounters, emerging publics in U.S. immigration courts
Designing a ‘vibrant, attractive and sustainable city: Feminist approaches to beautification in Kampala, Uganda
Beauty, as an aesthetic ideal and intrinsically power-laden paradigm, is central to urban development projects. Yet there remains limited critical work that interrogates the colonial underpinnings, violent outcomes, and negotiations of beauty politics in urban beautification programs. In our article, we approach urban beautification campaigns in downtown Kampala, Uganda via an explicitly African, and Black feminist analytic of beauty. Specificall…
Land is men: Oil, secondary wives, and the extractive intimacies of dispossession by compensation in Albertine Graben, Uganda
The Cuerpo-Territorio of Displacement: A Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics of Re-Existencia
In this article we examine the root causes and consequences of forced displacement in Guerrero, Mexico. Drawing upon Latin American and Caribbean decolonial feminist thought, we use ‘cuerpo-territorio’ (body-territory) as a lens for understanding multiscalar violence in the region. This centres the experiences of women and children, key figures both in the (re)production of embodied, communal, and territorial ties and in the phenomenon of forced …
Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Lockdown and the list: Mexican refugees, asylum denial, and the feminist geopolitics of esperar (waiting/hoping)
Between 2018 and 2020, dramatic changes in US-Mexico policy transformed experiences of asylum on the border. Quotas on applications at ports of entry (known as "metering"), the “Remain in Mexico” policy, and the deployment of the pandemic era “lockdown” through Title 42, each severely limited asylum opportunities. In response, a host of informal waiting lists emerged, developed and were utilized by a binational network of non-governmental and gov…
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico
Allure and the spatialities of nationalism, war and development: Towards a geography of beauty
The work of beauty-in disciplining bodies, imagining nations, driving globalized commodity networks, and fostering booming tourist industries, for example, is a vibrant area of research across the Humanities and Social Sciences. However, an understanding of the complex ideologies, material objects, and practices of beauty remain undeveloped in our field. In this article we call on geographers to take beauty, and its spatialities, seriously. We ce…
Asylum is Not for Mexicans: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border
In this article we engage and extend work on race and border politics via an analysis of unaccompanied Mexican migrant youth. Historically, until recently, Mexican youth have formed the largest group of unaccompanied minors attempting to move across the US-Mexico border. However, a set of structural political, socio-legal, and everyday institutional violences lead to their neglect, disregard and exclusion from rights to protections in both the US…
Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves: Economic Geography, Let's Dress Up
In this article, we build on the vital insights of feminist thought in economic geography, extending this body of work via a global Black feminist geographic lens. To do so, we center two moments of the Ugandan bridal industry: the international trade of imported dresses and their design and refashioning there. Via the journeys of these dresses, we make visible how connected racial-gendered and classed power relations structure, drive, and manife…
Let us create space: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community
Global retail capital and urban futures: Feminist postcolonial perspectives
Critical scholarship on urban development and displacement has a long history in geography. Yet one emergent driver remains strikingly understudied and poorly understood: global retail capital (GRC). This essay engages feminist postcolonial approaches, grounded in African continental feminist work, to theorize from the urban transformations, displacements, and resistances driven by GRC and emerging in urban East Africa. This framework engages an …
“I want to … let my country shine”: Nationalism, development, and the geographies of beauty
There is little geographic work on beauty. Yet beauty offers important insights into spatial, geopolitical, and geoeconomic processes. In this article, we attend to the powerful role of beauty labor, norms, and practices in national development. We center the Miss Tourism Uganda beauty pageant, held annually since 2011, and the centerpiece of tourism-based development in Uganda. Designed to attract foreign visitors and investors and to promote a …
“You Rise Up … They Burn You Again”: Market fires and the urban intimacies of disaster colonialism
In this paper we develop a feminist political ecology of disaster colonialism. To do so, we focus on a series of fires that devastated Park Yard Market in Kampala, Uganda, one of the largest retail spaces in East Africa. Officially accidental, rumours suggest the fires were deliberately set to displace traders and make way for the lucrative (re)development of the city‐centre land. Concerned less with the veracity of these rumours and more with th…
Feminist political geographies: Critical reflections, new directions
Feminist political geography (FPG) is a vibrant, diverse, provocative and contested field of inquiry. This special issue highlights those scholars connecting FPG approaches, methodologies and arguments to critical work in other sub-fields of our discipline, and beyond it. In doing so we open up a productive conversation about both the current limitations and the new insights FPG offers for understanding power and the political. The papers include…
Imagining Environmental Justice “Across the Street”: Zine-making as Creative Feminist Geographic Method
This article builds on and extends geographic calls for creative methodologies and critical geographic pedagogies, by tracing the formation of the zine, “Across the Street: An Environmental Justice Zine about Kids, Industry, and Health”. Central to a study of toxic poisoning in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood of Austin, Texas, one of five historic neighborhoods of color in the city, we demonstrate ways to think about, produce and engage with z…
We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’
In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, we decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that we situate it in place, and are attentive to spatial, temporal, relational, and overlapping margins and centers. Second, we call for a more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is a lens onto and a site for the reproduction of …
Time and Care in the "Lab" and the "Field: Slow Mentoring and Feminist Research in Geography
Building on calls for "slow scholarship," we highlight the importance of time and care in producing rigorous, ethical research through our advising practices. We describe how feminist ethics and epistemologies shape each of our research clusters: the Hydro-Feminist Lab at West Virginia University and the Feminist Geography Collective at the University of Texas at Austin. We show a couple of ways that feminist geographers can adopt the "lab model"…
Embodied Exhibits: Toward a Feminist Geographic Courtroom Ethnography
Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed, created, disciplined, and managed. In this article, we develop a feminist geographic ethnography of the court. This approach attends to the affective, intimate, and bodily politics of courtroom subjects, spaces, and moments, connecting these with wide…
A Darling(R) of the beauty trade: Race, Care, and the Imperial Debris of Synthetic Hair
This article pushes for a postcolonial geography of care, through hair. Working with the 'imperial debris' of care as a disciplinary racial logic, we show how it is renewed, remade, and resisted in the present through the travels, narratives, and practices of the African synthetic hair trade. Here we interrogate Lebanese business expansion, entrepreneurialism, manufacture, and styling, tracing in each case how contemporary narratives of care mirr…
A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography
Despite decades of recognition and worry about diversity, our discipline remains persistently white. That is, it is dominated by white bodies and it continues to conform to norms, practices, and ideologies of whiteness. This is a loss. At best, it limits the possibilities and impact of our work as geographers. At worst, it perpetuates harmful exclusions in our discipline: its working environments, its institutions, and its knowledge production. T…
The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
The Kabul I know is filled with booksellers, beauty schoolers, dressmakers, and tea drinkers.These are some of the evocative subjects used to tell the story of Afghanistan.To echo the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it is the "single story" of this country, narrated for the benefit of Western ears and produced through the past-presents of colonial power.This story offers us a powerful, painful, but oh-so-intoxicating drama of Taliban …
Gowns, globalization, and “global intimate mapping”: Geovisualizing Uganda’s wedding industry
In this article, we put critical geographic information systems (GIS) methods into conversation with feminist political and economic geographies, mapping the Ugandan wedding industry across the body, city, and the global. In doing so, we ground macro geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts in the lived experiences of women involved in the wedding industry, revealing some of the cross-scalar political economies of the trade. We develop a form of “glob…
Messing with gender in feminist political ecology
Critical feminist reflexivity and the politics of whiteness in the ‘field’
Feminist geographic commonsense suggests that power shapes knowledge production, prompting the long-standing reflexive turn. Yet, often such reflexivity fixes racial power and elides more nuanced operations of difference – moves feminist scholars have, in fact, long problematized. To counter this, we revisit Kobayashi's (1994) ‘Coloring the Field’ [‘Coloring the Field: Gender, “Race”, and the Politics of Fieldwork,’ Professional Geographer 46 (1)…
The spatialities of intersectional thinking: Fashioning Feminist Geographic Futures
In this article, we highlight the inherent spatialities of intersectionality and its pivotal importance for feminist geographic thought. Intersectionality was, at its inception, already a deeply spatial theoretical concept, process and epistemology, particularly when read through careful and serious engagement with Black Feminist Thought and the writings of radical women of color. We do so here, revisiting Cooper, Crenshaw, Collins and other key …
Styling the nation: Fear and desire in the South Sudanese beauty trade
Feminist scholarship on emotion and the ‘global intimate’ offers innovative ways to rethink nationalism as embodied, affective and lived in the everyday. This approach also brings into focus the significance of the transnational: flows of commodities, bodies and ideas that cross state boundaries and are taken up, reworked, celebrated and worried over as part of nation‐making. I approach nationalism here in this way, centring the beauty salon indu…
Time and Care in the "Lab" and the "Field: Slow Mentoring and Feminist Research in Geography
Building on calls for "slow scholarship," we highlight the importance of time and care in producing rigorous, ethical research through our advising practices. We describe how feminist ethics and epistemologies shape each of our research clusters: the Hydro-Feminist Lab at West Virginia University and the Feminist Geography Collective at the University of Texas at Austin. We show a couple of ways that feminist geographers can adopt the "lab model"…
Embodied Exhibits: Toward a Feminist Geographic Courtroom Ethnography
Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed, created, disciplined, and managed. In this article, we develop a feminist geographic ethnography of the court. This approach attends to the affective, intimate, and bodily politics of courtroom subjects, spaces, and moments, connecting these with wide…
Towards a countertopography of intimate war: Contouring violence and resistance in a South Sudanese diaspora
Recent feminist geographic scholarship insists we rethink domestic violence as ‘intimate war’. Using this concept I analyze narratives of violence and resistance articulated by U.S.-resettled South Sudanese women and collected in the wake of a fatal incidence of domestic violence in 2005. One of a spate of intimate partner murders that shook the community at this time, this tragic event spurred debates about shifting gender norms, the stresses an…
Affectual intensities: Writing with resonance as feminist methodology
This paper advances current debates about feminist methodologies in geography by attending to affectual intensities and their resonance. Affectual intensities emerge through encounters between different bodies and objects, and are deeply power‐laden, enabling, disabling, transforming, and restricting geographic research. We attend to three moments of resonance that surfaced in Elisabeth Militz's field research on nationalism in Azerbaijan. In eac…
We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’
In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, we decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that we situate it in place, and are attentive to spatial, temporal, relational, and overlapping margins and centers. Second, we call for a more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is a lens onto and a site for the reproduction of …
The Cuerpo-Territorio of Displacement: A Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics of Re-Existencia
In this article we examine the root causes and consequences of forced displacement in Guerrero, Mexico. Drawing upon Latin American and Caribbean decolonial feminist thought, we use ‘cuerpo-territorio’ (body-territory) as a lens for understanding multiscalar violence in the region. This centres the experiences of women and children, key figures both in the (re)production of embodied, communal, and territorial ties and in the phenomenon of forced …
Lockdown and the list: Mexican refugees, asylum denial, and the feminist geopolitics of esperar (waiting/hoping)
Between 2018 and 2020, dramatic changes in US-Mexico policy transformed experiences of asylum on the border. Quotas on applications at ports of entry (known as "metering"), the “Remain in Mexico” policy, and the deployment of the pandemic era “lockdown” through Title 42, each severely limited asylum opportunities. In response, a host of informal waiting lists emerged, developed and were utilized by a binational network of non-governmental and gov…
Unsettling the sediments of violence
Feminist political geographies: Critical reflections, new directions
Feminist political geography (FPG) is a vibrant, diverse, provocative and contested field of inquiry. This special issue highlights those scholars connecting FPG approaches, methodologies and arguments to critical work in other sub-fields of our discipline, and beyond it. In doing so we open up a productive conversation about both the current limitations and the new insights FPG offers for understanding power and the political. The papers include…
A Darling(R) of the beauty trade: Race, Care, and the Imperial Debris of Synthetic Hair
This article pushes for a postcolonial geography of care, through hair. Working with the 'imperial debris' of care as a disciplinary racial logic, we show how it is renewed, remade, and resisted in the present through the travels, narratives, and practices of the African synthetic hair trade. Here we interrogate Lebanese business expansion, entrepreneurialism, manufacture, and styling, tracing in each case how contemporary narratives of care mirr…
Gowns, globalization, and “global intimate mapping”: Geovisualizing Uganda’s wedding industry
In this article, we put critical geographic information systems (GIS) methods into conversation with feminist political and economic geographies, mapping the Ugandan wedding industry across the body, city, and the global. In doing so, we ground macro geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts in the lived experiences of women involved in the wedding industry, revealing some of the cross-scalar political economies of the trade. We develop a form of “glob…
I Want My Children to Know Sudan”: Narrating the Long-Distance Intimacies of Diasporic Politics
Attending to the gendered intimacies of diasporic politics offers rich insights for studies of transnationalism, nationalism, and citizenship. This article focuses on South Sudan and the narrative accounts of thirty U.S.-resettled women collected in the transitional era prior to independence in 2011. Their stories point to the embodied nature of political subjectivity enacted during this time through everyday parental acts in the United States, c…
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico
Asylum is Not for Mexicans: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border
In this article we engage and extend work on race and border politics via an analysis of unaccompanied Mexican migrant youth. Historically, until recently, Mexican youth have formed the largest group of unaccompanied minors attempting to move across the US-Mexico border. However, a set of structural political, socio-legal, and everyday institutional violences lead to their neglect, disregard and exclusion from rights to protections in both the US…
Imagining Environmental Justice “Across the Street”: Zine-making as Creative Feminist Geographic Method
This article builds on and extends geographic calls for creative methodologies and critical geographic pedagogies, by tracing the formation of the zine, “Across the Street: An Environmental Justice Zine about Kids, Industry, and Health”. Central to a study of toxic poisoning in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood of Austin, Texas, one of five historic neighborhoods of color in the city, we demonstrate ways to think about, produce and engage with z…
Staging a new South Sudan in the USA: Men, masculinities and nationalist performance at a diasporic beauty pageant
This article explores the gendering of cultural nationalism at a South Sudanese beauty pageant with a focus on the promotional work, organizing efforts and performances of men. Through a visual and textual discourse analysis of materials related to the event, as well as a series of interviews with participants, promoters, judges and audience members, I argue that these male participants articulate a distinctly masculinized form of South Sudanese …
We want empowerment for our women: Transnational Feminism, Neoliberal Citizenship, and the Gendering of Women's Political Subjectivity in Postconflict South Sudan
Following the signing of a 2005 peace agreement, connections between South Sudanese women in the diaspora and at “home” reveal new and gendered forms of female political subjectivity, citizenship, and activism. This article explores the emergence of transnational women’s organizing efforts through a focus on a 2008 conference held in Juba, South Sudan, and hosted by the U.S.-based South Sudan Women’s Empowerment Network (SSWEN). We describe the m…
Let us create space: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community
Contesting Miss South Sudan: Gender and Nation-Building in Diasporic Discourse
As South Sudan prepares for a referendum on independence in 2011, heightened nationalist expression within popular and political discourse reveals a messier and more openly disputed conception of the ideal Southern Sudanese woman. In this article I examine one site for debate in the diaspora, the US based Miss South Sudan beauty pageant. Highlighting the perseverance and power of the Woman-as-Nation discourse, I read the contest as a politically …
Privileging prevention, gendering responsibility: An analysis of the Ghanaian campaign against HIV/Aids
This article focuses on the discourses around HIV/AIDS in the national Ghanaian ‘Stop AIDS Love Life!’ public health campaign, within non-governmental HIV/AIDS publications, and the Ghanaian national print media. I have used critical discourse analysis to interpret and deconstruct a range of these social texts collected between June and September of 2001 and 2003 in and around Greater Accra, Ghana. I argue, firstly, that these discourses are shap…
Allure and the spatialities of nationalism, war and development: Towards a geography of beauty
The work of beauty-in disciplining bodies, imagining nations, driving globalized commodity networks, and fostering booming tourist industries, for example, is a vibrant area of research across the Humanities and Social Sciences. However, an understanding of the complex ideologies, material objects, and practices of beauty remain undeveloped in our field. In this article we call on geographers to take beauty, and its spatialities, seriously. We ce…
Privileging prevention, gendering responsibility: An analysis of the Ghanaian campaign against HIV/Aids
This article focuses on the discourses around HIV/AIDS in the national Ghanaian ‘Stop AIDS Love Life!’ public health campaign, within non-governmental HIV/AIDS publications, and the Ghanaian national print media. I have used critical discourse analysis to interpret and deconstruct a range of these social texts collected between June and September of 2001 and 2003 in and around Greater Accra, Ghana. I argue, firstly, that these discourses are shap…
The World Social Forum and the Lessons for Economic Geography
This article examines the development of the World Social Forum (WSF) using theoretical arguments that have emerged from the new economic geography. In particular, it draws on the critique of economistic accounts of globalization by Richa Nagar, Victoria Lawson, Linda McDowell, and Susan Hanson to evaluate how far the WSF serves to move beyond institutional, spatial, and personal barriers that often limit academic debate over neoliberalism and gl…
Contesting Miss South Sudan: Gender and Nation-Building in Diasporic Discourse
As South Sudan prepares for a referendum on independence in 2011, heightened nationalist expression within popular and political discourse reveals a messier and more openly disputed conception of the ideal Southern Sudanese woman. In this article I examine one site for debate in the diaspora, the US based Miss South Sudan beauty pageant. Highlighting the perseverance and power of the Woman-as-Nation discourse, I read the contest as a politically …
We want empowerment for our women: Transnational Feminism, Neoliberal Citizenship, and the Gendering of Women's Political Subjectivity in Postconflict South Sudan
Following the signing of a 2005 peace agreement, connections between South Sudanese women in the diaspora and at “home” reveal new and gendered forms of female political subjectivity, citizenship, and activism. This article explores the emergence of transnational women’s organizing efforts through a focus on a 2008 conference held in Juba, South Sudan, and hosted by the U.S.-based South Sudan Women’s Empowerment Network (SSWEN). We describe the m…
Messing with gender in feminist political ecology
Transatlantic conversations: Feminism as travelling theory
Staging a new South Sudan in the USA: Men, masculinities and nationalist performance at a diasporic beauty pageant
This article explores the gendering of cultural nationalism at a South Sudanese beauty pageant with a focus on the promotional work, organizing efforts and performances of men. Through a visual and textual discourse analysis of materials related to the event, as well as a series of interviews with participants, promoters, judges and audience members, I argue that these male participants articulate a distinctly masculinized form of South Sudanese …
Styling the nation: Fear and desire in the South Sudanese beauty trade
Feminist scholarship on emotion and the ‘global intimate’ offers innovative ways to rethink nationalism as embodied, affective and lived in the everyday. This approach also brings into focus the significance of the transnational: flows of commodities, bodies and ideas that cross state boundaries and are taken up, reworked, celebrated and worried over as part of nation‐making. I approach nationalism here in this way, centring the beauty salon indu…
Critical feminist reflexivity and the politics of whiteness in the ‘field’
Feminist geographic commonsense suggests that power shapes knowledge production, prompting the long-standing reflexive turn. Yet, often such reflexivity fixes racial power and elides more nuanced operations of difference – moves feminist scholars have, in fact, long problematized. To counter this, we revisit Kobayashi's (1994) ‘Coloring the Field’ [‘Coloring the Field: Gender, “Race”, and the Politics of Fieldwork,’ Professional Geographer 46 (1)…
I Want My Children to Know Sudan”: Narrating the Long-Distance Intimacies of Diasporic Politics
Attending to the gendered intimacies of diasporic politics offers rich insights for studies of transnationalism, nationalism, and citizenship. This article focuses on South Sudan and the narrative accounts of thirty U.S.-resettled women collected in the transitional era prior to independence in 2011. Their stories point to the embodied nature of political subjectivity enacted during this time through everyday parental acts in the United States, c…
Ambiguous pleasures: Sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi
In Ambiguous Pleasures, Rachel Spronk attends to the ‘sensorial aspects of sexuality’ (3) amidst the tumult of contemporary urban Africa. We are first, and powerfully, presented with this in the co
Towards a countertopography of intimate war: Contouring violence and resistance in a South Sudanese diaspora
Recent feminist geographic scholarship insists we rethink domestic violence as ‘intimate war’. Using this concept I analyze narratives of violence and resistance articulated by U.S.-resettled South Sudanese women and collected in the wake of a fatal incidence of domestic violence in 2005. One of a spate of intimate partner murders that shook the community at this time, this tragic event spurred debates about shifting gender norms, the stresses an…
Uncommodified blackness: The African male experience in Australia and New Zealand
Uncommodified blackness: the African male experience in Australia and New Zealand." African Geographical Review, 38(2), pp. 191–192
Unsettling the sediments of violence
Terrains of Trauma: A Children's Geography of Urban Disinvestment
The spatialities of intersectional thinking: Fashioning Feminist Geographic Futures
In this article, we highlight the inherent spatialities of intersectionality and its pivotal importance for feminist geographic thought. Intersectionality was, at its inception, already a deeply spatial theoretical concept, process and epistemology, particularly when read through careful and serious engagement with Black Feminist Thought and the writings of radical women of color. We do so here, revisiting Cooper, Crenshaw, Collins and other key …
A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography
Despite decades of recognition and worry about diversity, our discipline remains persistently white. That is, it is dominated by white bodies and it continues to conform to norms, practices, and ideologies of whiteness. This is a loss. At best, it limits the possibilities and impact of our work as geographers. At worst, it perpetuates harmful exclusions in our discipline: its working environments, its institutions, and its knowledge production. T…
The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
The Kabul I know is filled with booksellers, beauty schoolers, dressmakers, and tea drinkers.These are some of the evocative subjects used to tell the story of Afghanistan.To echo the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it is the "single story" of this country, narrated for the benefit of Western ears and produced through the past-presents of colonial power.This story offers us a powerful, painful, but oh-so-intoxicating drama of Taliban …
Gowns, globalization, and “global intimate mapping”: Geovisualizing Uganda’s wedding industry
In this article, we put critical geographic information systems (GIS) methods into conversation with feminist political and economic geographies, mapping the Ugandan wedding industry across the body, city, and the global. In doing so, we ground macro geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts in the lived experiences of women involved in the wedding industry, revealing some of the cross-scalar political economies of the trade. We develop a form of “glob…
Affectual intensities: Writing with resonance as feminist methodology
This paper advances current debates about feminist methodologies in geography by attending to affectual intensities and their resonance. Affectual intensities emerge through encounters between different bodies and objects, and are deeply power‐laden, enabling, disabling, transforming, and restricting geographic research. We attend to three moments of resonance that surfaced in Elisabeth Militz's field research on nationalism in Azerbaijan. In eac…
“I want to … let my country shine”: Nationalism, development, and the geographies of beauty
There is little geographic work on beauty. Yet beauty offers important insights into spatial, geopolitical, and geoeconomic processes. In this article, we attend to the powerful role of beauty labor, norms, and practices in national development. We center the Miss Tourism Uganda beauty pageant, held annually since 2011, and the centerpiece of tourism-based development in Uganda. Designed to attract foreign visitors and investors and to promote a …
“You Rise Up … They Burn You Again”: Market fires and the urban intimacies of disaster colonialism
In this paper we develop a feminist political ecology of disaster colonialism. To do so, we focus on a series of fires that devastated Park Yard Market in Kampala, Uganda, one of the largest retail spaces in East Africa. Officially accidental, rumours suggest the fires were deliberately set to displace traders and make way for the lucrative (re)development of the city‐centre land. Concerned less with the veracity of these rumours and more with th…
Feminist political geographies: Critical reflections, new directions
Feminist political geography (FPG) is a vibrant, diverse, provocative and contested field of inquiry. This special issue highlights those scholars connecting FPG approaches, methodologies and arguments to critical work in other sub-fields of our discipline, and beyond it. In doing so we open up a productive conversation about both the current limitations and the new insights FPG offers for understanding power and the political. The papers include…
Imagining Environmental Justice “Across the Street”: Zine-making as Creative Feminist Geographic Method
This article builds on and extends geographic calls for creative methodologies and critical geographic pedagogies, by tracing the formation of the zine, “Across the Street: An Environmental Justice Zine about Kids, Industry, and Health”. Central to a study of toxic poisoning in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood of Austin, Texas, one of five historic neighborhoods of color in the city, we demonstrate ways to think about, produce and engage with z…
We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’
In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, we decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that we situate it in place, and are attentive to spatial, temporal, relational, and overlapping margins and centers. Second, we call for a more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is a lens onto and a site for the reproduction of …
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