Heidi J Nast
Biographic Data
| ID | 89264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi J Nast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi J |
| FAMILY NAME | Nast |
| SIGNATURE | NAST H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1302-037X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 563 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Spatial Futures
This book acknowledges, situates and critiques Anthropocene debates on the ‘nature’ and specific geographies of this apparently planetary condition.
Spatial Futures
Big babies
This paper takes a preliminary look at a commoditised form of caregiving that emerged in the first decade of the new millennium in the USA, China and Japan: adult male breastfeeding (AMBF). I argue that AMBF is emblematic of both the changing geography of industrial production since the 1973 oil crisis and how consumption has since come to be the most important economic task of those within privileged nations and enclaves. AMBF emphasises how mar…
Uterine imaginaries, geopolitical economy, and the maternal/unconscious
This commentary brings geopolitical economic sensibilities about sexual difference, possession, and the Machine into conversation with Lewis’ cyborgic uterine to make three analytical points. First, transcalar uterine thinking has long existed, seasoned by geopolitical economic circumstance. Uterine thinking in nonmechanized agrarian contexts has circulated primarily through imaginaries of maternal fertility, the material expanse of which exceeds…
Into the arms of dolls
Japan's 1990s financial crisis proved psychically traumatic for many men, their trauma exacerbated by decades of falling fertility rates and related sociospatial attenuation. The crisis disrupted a range of heteronormative practices that had stabilized post-war gendered identities, especially marriage and stay-at-home motherhood. Some men consequently began seeking comfort in the company of youthful-looking, large-format, hyper-feminized commodit…
Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism
Throughout the twentieth century, psychoanalysis and feminism were the practico-intellectual fields most systematic and subversive in demonstrating that humanity is sexually fissured. More recently, further advances in the philosophy of difference and renewed emphases on embodiment, materiality and life offer possibilities for attending to dimensions of gender and sexuality that were previously underdeveloped. This collection examines these possi…
Bio(necro)polis
Race” and the Bio(necro)polis
III. Secrets, Reflexivity, and Geographies of Refusal
Islam and Colonialism
Journal Article Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual responses of Muslims of northern Nigeria to British colonial rule, by Muhammad S. Umar Get access Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xiv + 295 pp. €104.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-90-04-13946-6 (hardback). Heidi J. Nast Heidi J. Nast DePaul University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 107, Issue 427, April 2008, Pages 290–292, https://doi.o…
Critical Pet Studies
Cultural Geographies in Practice
Center.One of the conditions for accepting the award was that each Fellow develop a
Oedipalizing Geopolitics
African Modernity and The Short Century
Queer Patriarchies, Queer Racisms, International
This paper explores the potential for certain gay white men to benefit from postindustrial sectors that depend structurally and implicitly upon white supremacy and heteropatriarchy. The paper maps out how gay white patriarchies coexist with, and in some cases displace, heteronormative patriarchies, shoring up pre–existing racialized and politically and economically conservative processes of profit–accumulation. Former cultural investments in a fa…
Special Issue
Special Issue
Climbing Scale and Place
Mapping the “Unconscious”
This paper argues that modern constructions of “race” are inherent in specifically modern constructions of heterosexuality and that both of them inform the normative familial quadrad: Mother, Father, Son, and the Repressed (Bestial). These mythic familial categories constitute the basis of the “oedipal” family and are instrumentally interconnected. Here the oedipal triad of Mother-Son-Father is ideationally encoded as white, the repressed bestial…
Sex', 'Race' and Multiculturalism
This paper calls attention to the difficulties of broaching issues of 'race' and 'sex' in the classroom in the context of nation-wide institutional calls for multiculturalism. I argue that critical multicultural objectives can only be successful if: (1) faculty who take curricular and pedagogical risks are able to count on strong support from colleagues, departmental chairs and university administrators; (2) classroom realities of homophobia, sex…
Thresholds in Feminist Geography
Unsexy Geographies
Islam, Gender, and Slavery in West Africa Circa 1500
Using field data from the Kano palace, this paper highlights the utility of a reworked Foucauldian mode of spatial analysis (spatial archaeology) in understanding the dynamics of state formation in Islamicized West Africa. It is argued that the palace was built circa 1500 as an Islamic palace within which North African political cultural innovations were intorudced and given material force. The most important of these were seclusion, massive conc…
Where's the Difference? The Heterosexualization of Alterity in Henri Lefebvre and Jacques Lacan
It has been largely overlooked that Henri Lefebvre in his book The Production of Space draws heavily upon Lacanian psychoanalytic accounts of the emergence of subjectivity in theorizing political relations, Lefebvre implicitly repudiates at the same time that he builds upon Lacan's distinctions between real, imaginary, and symbolic registers of subjectivity. For Lefebvre, Lacan's registers give primacy to visuality and heterosexualized familial d…
Women in the Field
Feminist scholars have traditionally emphasized the importance of incorporating "the everyday" worlds of women into the historically masculinist theoretical and empirical foundations of the social sciences. Such emphases have commonly resulted in smaller-scale research projects and more interactive kinds of research methods and methodologies. Feminist geographers have uniquely contributed to the body of feminist scholarship through drawing out th…
Women in the Field
Feminist scholars have traditionally emphasized the importance of incorporating "the everyday" worlds of women into the historically masculinist theoretical and empirical foundations of the social sciences. Such emphases have commonly resulted in smaller-scale research projects and more interactive kinds of research methods and methodologies. Feminist geographers have uniquely contributed to the body of feminist scholarship through drawing out th…
Bio(necro)polis
Queer Patriarchies, Queer Racisms, International
This paper explores the potential for certain gay white men to benefit from postindustrial sectors that depend structurally and implicitly upon white supremacy and heteropatriarchy. The paper maps out how gay white patriarchies coexist with, and in some cases displace, heteronormative patriarchies, shoring up pre–existing racialized and politically and economically conservative processes of profit–accumulation. Former cultural investments in a fa…
Critical Pet Studies
Mapping the “Unconscious”
This paper argues that modern constructions of “race” are inherent in specifically modern constructions of heterosexuality and that both of them inform the normative familial quadrad: Mother, Father, Son, and the Repressed (Bestial). These mythic familial categories constitute the basis of the “oedipal” family and are instrumentally interconnected. Here the oedipal triad of Mother-Son-Father is ideationally encoded as white, the repressed bestial…
Where's the Difference? The Heterosexualization of Alterity in Henri Lefebvre and Jacques Lacan
It has been largely overlooked that Henri Lefebvre in his book The Production of Space draws heavily upon Lacanian psychoanalytic accounts of the emergence of subjectivity in theorizing political relations, Lefebvre implicitly repudiates at the same time that he builds upon Lacan's distinctions between real, imaginary, and symbolic registers of subjectivity. For Lefebvre, Lacan's registers give primacy to visuality and heterosexualized familial d…
Unsexy Geographies
Sex', 'Race' and Multiculturalism
This paper calls attention to the difficulties of broaching issues of 'race' and 'sex' in the classroom in the context of nation-wide institutional calls for multiculturalism. I argue that critical multicultural objectives can only be successful if: (1) faculty who take curricular and pedagogical risks are able to count on strong support from colleagues, departmental chairs and university administrators; (2) classroom realities of homophobia, sex…
Into the arms of dolls
Japan's 1990s financial crisis proved psychically traumatic for many men, their trauma exacerbated by decades of falling fertility rates and related sociospatial attenuation. The crisis disrupted a range of heteronormative practices that had stabilized post-war gendered identities, especially marriage and stay-at-home motherhood. Some men consequently began seeking comfort in the company of youthful-looking, large-format, hyper-feminized commodit…
Islam, Gender, and Slavery in West Africa Circa 1500
Using field data from the Kano palace, this paper highlights the utility of a reworked Foucauldian mode of spatial analysis (spatial archaeology) in understanding the dynamics of state formation in Islamicized West Africa. It is argued that the palace was built circa 1500 as an Islamic palace within which North African political cultural innovations were intorudced and given material force. The most important of these were seclusion, massive conc…
Race” and the Bio(necro)polis
The impact of British imperialism on the landscape of female slavery in the Kano palace, northern Nigeria
Spatial analysis of the Kano palace shows that colonial abolitionist policies enacted in northern Nigeria after the British conquest of 1903 affected the lives and places of female and male slaves differently. The differences derived from historical differences in the placement and function of slave women and men in the palace: whereas slave women lived and/or worked in a vast secluded private domain and engaged in state household reproduction on…
Oedipalizing Geopolitics
Special Issue
Special Issue
Big babies
This paper takes a preliminary look at a commoditised form of caregiving that emerged in the first decade of the new millennium in the USA, China and Japan: adult male breastfeeding (AMBF). I argue that AMBF is emblematic of both the changing geography of industrial production since the 1973 oil crisis and how consumption has since come to be the most important economic task of those within privileged nations and enclaves. AMBF emphasises how mar…
Uterine imaginaries, geopolitical economy, and the maternal/unconscious
This commentary brings geopolitical economic sensibilities about sexual difference, possession, and the Machine into conversation with Lewis’ cyborgic uterine to make three analytical points. First, transcalar uterine thinking has long existed, seasoned by geopolitical economic circumstance. Uterine thinking in nonmechanized agrarian contexts has circulated primarily through imaginaries of maternal fertility, the material expanse of which exceeds…
Cultural Geographies in Practice
Center.One of the conditions for accepting the award was that each Fellow develop a
Women in the Field
Feminist scholars have traditionally emphasized the importance of incorporating "the everyday" worlds of women into the historically masculinist theoretical and empirical foundations of the social sciences. Such emphases have commonly resulted in smaller-scale research projects and more interactive kinds of research methods and methodologies. Feminist geographers have uniquely contributed to the body of feminist scholarship through drawing out th…
The impact of British imperialism on the landscape of female slavery in the Kano palace, northern Nigeria
Spatial analysis of the Kano palace shows that colonial abolitionist policies enacted in northern Nigeria after the British conquest of 1903 affected the lives and places of female and male slaves differently. The differences derived from historical differences in the placement and function of slave women and men in the palace: whereas slave women lived and/or worked in a vast secluded private domain and engaged in state household reproduction on…
Islam, Gender, and Slavery in West Africa Circa 1500
Using field data from the Kano palace, this paper highlights the utility of a reworked Foucauldian mode of spatial analysis (spatial archaeology) in understanding the dynamics of state formation in Islamicized West Africa. It is argued that the palace was built circa 1500 as an Islamic palace within which North African political cultural innovations were intorudced and given material force. The most important of these were seclusion, massive conc…
Where's the Difference? The Heterosexualization of Alterity in Henri Lefebvre and Jacques Lacan
It has been largely overlooked that Henri Lefebvre in his book The Production of Space draws heavily upon Lacanian psychoanalytic accounts of the emergence of subjectivity in theorizing political relations, Lefebvre implicitly repudiates at the same time that he builds upon Lacan's distinctions between real, imaginary, and symbolic registers of subjectivity. For Lefebvre, Lacan's registers give primacy to visuality and heterosexualized familial d…
Unsexy Geographies
Sex', 'Race' and Multiculturalism
This paper calls attention to the difficulties of broaching issues of 'race' and 'sex' in the classroom in the context of nation-wide institutional calls for multiculturalism. I argue that critical multicultural objectives can only be successful if: (1) faculty who take curricular and pedagogical risks are able to count on strong support from colleagues, departmental chairs and university administrators; (2) classroom realities of homophobia, sex…
Thresholds in Feminist Geography
Mapping the “Unconscious”
This paper argues that modern constructions of “race” are inherent in specifically modern constructions of heterosexuality and that both of them inform the normative familial quadrad: Mother, Father, Son, and the Repressed (Bestial). These mythic familial categories constitute the basis of the “oedipal” family and are instrumentally interconnected. Here the oedipal triad of Mother-Son-Father is ideationally encoded as white, the repressed bestial…
Climbing Scale and Place
Queer Patriarchies, Queer Racisms, International
This paper explores the potential for certain gay white men to benefit from postindustrial sectors that depend structurally and implicitly upon white supremacy and heteropatriarchy. The paper maps out how gay white patriarchies coexist with, and in some cases displace, heteronormative patriarchies, shoring up pre–existing racialized and politically and economically conservative processes of profit–accumulation. Former cultural investments in a fa…
Special Issue
Special Issue
Oedipalizing Geopolitics
African Modernity and The Short Century
Cultural Geographies in Practice
Center.One of the conditions for accepting the award was that each Fellow develop a
Critical Pet Studies
III. Secrets, Reflexivity, and Geographies of Refusal
Islam and Colonialism
Journal Article Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual responses of Muslims of northern Nigeria to British colonial rule, by Muhammad S. Umar Get access Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xiv + 295 pp. €104.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-90-04-13946-6 (hardback). Heidi J. Nast Heidi J. Nast DePaul University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 107, Issue 427, April 2008, Pages 290–292, https://doi.o…
Bio(necro)polis
Race” and the Bio(necro)polis
Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism
Throughout the twentieth century, psychoanalysis and feminism were the practico-intellectual fields most systematic and subversive in demonstrating that humanity is sexually fissured. More recently, further advances in the philosophy of difference and renewed emphases on embodiment, materiality and life offer possibilities for attending to dimensions of gender and sexuality that were previously underdeveloped. This collection examines these possi…
Into the arms of dolls
Japan's 1990s financial crisis proved psychically traumatic for many men, their trauma exacerbated by decades of falling fertility rates and related sociospatial attenuation. The crisis disrupted a range of heteronormative practices that had stabilized post-war gendered identities, especially marriage and stay-at-home motherhood. Some men consequently began seeking comfort in the company of youthful-looking, large-format, hyper-feminized commodit…
Uterine imaginaries, geopolitical economy, and the maternal/unconscious
This commentary brings geopolitical economic sensibilities about sexual difference, possession, and the Machine into conversation with Lewis’ cyborgic uterine to make three analytical points. First, transcalar uterine thinking has long existed, seasoned by geopolitical economic circumstance. Uterine thinking in nonmechanized agrarian contexts has circulated primarily through imaginaries of maternal fertility, the material expanse of which exceeds…
Big babies
This paper takes a preliminary look at a commoditised form of caregiving that emerged in the first decade of the new millennium in the USA, China and Japan: adult male breastfeeding (AMBF). I argue that AMBF is emblematic of both the changing geography of industrial production since the 1973 oil crisis and how consumption has since come to be the most important economic task of those within privileged nations and enclaves. AMBF emphasises how mar…
Spatial Futures
This book acknowledges, situates and critiques Anthropocene debates on the ‘nature’ and specific geographies of this apparently planetary condition.
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