Liz Bondi
Biographic Data
| ID | 92160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Bondi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Bondi |
| SIGNATURE | BONDI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1060 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Emotional Geographies
Understanding feelings: Engaging with unconscious communication and embodied knowledge
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
Making Spaces: Putting Psychoanalytic Thinking to Work
Feeling insecure: A Personal Account in a Psychoanalytic Voice
The concept of ontological security has been taken up in human geography primarily through Giddens' (1990 Giddens, A. (1990) The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Google Scholar], 1991 Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Google Scholar]) formulation, but the idea has its origins in the writings of the existential psychoanalyst R.D. Laing. Returning to the psychoanalytic underpinnings of the…
Between Christianity and secularity: Counselling and psychotherapy provision in Scotland
Counselling and psychotherapy services have become increasingly prominent within modern urban welfare. Although often perceived to be intrinsically secular, since psychoanalytic thinking and practice arrived in Scotland it has been shaped by the Christian culture it encountered. Early Scottish-born contributors to psychoanalytic theory, including Ian Suttie and W.R.D. Fairbairn, reframed Freud's ideas in ways that incorporated Scottish Presbyteri…
Research and Therapy: Generating Meaning and Feeling Gaps
The author argues that qualitative research and psychotherapy are both projects of making meaning. Qualitative research may provide therapeutic opportunities for participants that sometimes generate confusion about appropriate boundaries, but psychotherapy does not have a monopoly on the therapeutic. The meanings (or stories) that qualitative research and psychotherapy generate circulate differently, qualitative research entering the public domai…
The Tertiary Turn: Locating “The Academy” in Autobiographical Accounts of Activism in Manchester, UK and Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Activists often strategically negotiate sectoral boundaries by switching between public, private and voluntary sectors over the life course in order to pursue their aims. This paper draws on a cross-national study that explored the extent of this inter-sectoral movement and the specific “career pathways” activists developed in relation to governmental, private and voluntary/community sector organisations. Using an analysis of 46 biographical narr…
Lost in translation
Special Issue: ‘Towards Professional Wisdom’
In March 2008 the undersigned guest editors—all members of different schools of the University of Edinburgh—of this issue of Ethics and Social Welfare promoted a conference in Edinburgh on the subj
Counselling in rural Scotland: Care, proximity and trust
People living in small rural communities tend to interact with each other in multiple aspects of their lives and are generally less anonymous to one another than those living in urban places. This density of social connectedness tends to militate against the boundaries normally associated with professionalised forms of care. This article explores how these tensions are negotiated by people who have developed local counselling services in two rura…
Teaching Reflexivity: Undoing or Reinscribing Habits of Gender
This paper outlines an approach used in a course designed to teach reflexivity as a research skill and explores what kind of gender intervention such teaching might constitute. Although inspired by feminist debates about the complex power dynamics of research relationships, the course in question does not focus specifically on gender issues. Instead it draws attention to the complex, diverse and subtle negotiations that take place within research…
On the relational dynamics of caring: A psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of women's care work
Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both care-givers and care-recipients. This article draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of psychotherapeutic practices…
Is counselling a feminist practice
Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation
Introduction: Liz Bondi and Nina Laurie. After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand: Wendy Larner and David Craig. Authority and Expertise: Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent: Uma Kothari. Dropping Out or Signing Up? Professionalisation of Youth Travel: Kate Simpson. Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge …
Troubling Space, Making Space, Doing Space
Spatial terminology is used in many fields, including that of psychotherapies, in ways that often go unremarked. Human geographers have expressed ambivalence about an apparent proliferation of spatial thinking, challenging taken-for-granted meanings attributed to ‘space’. Drawing especially on feminist geography, this article outlines two of the most influential re-theorisations of space – as relational and as performative – that have ensued
Traversing Boundaries: Response to Commentaries by Dieter Nitzgen and Sue Einhorn
Academics are widely assumed to know things with high levels of certainty, and therefore to be capable of offering objective statements about the world. But feminists academics, myself included, generally eschew such assumptions. The feminist argument that knowledge claims are always situated (Haraway, 1988) implies that there is no neutral vantage point from which to generate universal truths. It follows from this that communicating across disci…
Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling
An analysis is presented of how a particular psychotherapeutic practice, namely voluntary sector counselling, contributes to and resists neoliberal forms of governance. Neoliberal governmentality invokes a concept of the human subject as an autonomous, individualised, self-directing, decision-making agent, attributes fostered in different ways by psychotherapies and processes of professionalisation. In this context I explore accounts of counselli…
Making connections and thinking through emotions: Between Geography and Psychotherapy
The current upsurge of interest in emotions within geography has the potential to contribute to critical perspectives that question conventional limits to scholarship. Three precursors of emotional geographies are discussed in this context (humanistic, feminist and non-representational geographies). Connections between emotional geographies and psychotherapy are explored with a view to resisting the equation of emotion with individualized subject…
A double-edged sword”? The professionalisation of counselling in the United Kingdom
Th Anniversary Address For a feminist geography of ambivalence
This article argues for and invokes an ambivalent feminist spatiality. Drawing on the idea that the position of feminist academic is a contradiction in terms, together with my ambivalence about presenting the Gender, Place and Culture 10th Anniversary Lecture, I illustrate ways in which feminists successfully inhabit unresolved tensions about academic authority. I then explore four themes in feminist politics—equality, autonomy, difference and de…
Spatialising affect; affecting space: An Introduction
Spatialising affect; affecting space: an introduction." Gender, Place & Culture, 11(3), pp. 373–374
Constructing gender, constructing the urban: A review of Anglo-American feminist urban geography
This essay explores the changing shape of Anglo-American feminist urban geography, through a discussion of material published in Gender, Place and Culture and elsewhere over the past decade. We contextualize this discussion in relation to the development of feminist urban studies since the 1970s, showing its enduring commitment to work across traditional analytical divides that obfuscate crucial aspects of the mutual constitution of gender and th…
Meaning-making and its framings: A response to Stuart Oliver
(2003). Meaning-making and its framings: A response to Stuart Oliver. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 323-327
Gender, Place and Culture: Ten years on
(2003). Gender, Place and Culture: Ten years on. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 3-4
Making connections and thinking through emotions: Between Geography and Psychotherapy
The current upsurge of interest in emotions within geography has the potential to contribute to critical perspectives that question conventional limits to scholarship. Three precursors of emotional geographies are discussed in this context (humanistic, feminist and non-representational geographies). Connections between emotional geographies and psychotherapy are explored with a view to resisting the equation of emotion with individualized subject…
Gender Divisions and Gentrification: A Critique
This article presents a critique of the treatment of gender issues within analyses of gentrification. Despite frequent references to the importance of changes in the position of women in the labour market and the family, very few studies examine the possibility that gentrification might entail processes of gender constitution as well as processes of class constitution. Moreover those that do, focus on gender divisions of labour to the neglect of …
Gender, Class, and Gentrification: Enriching the Debate
In this paper I take up the debate about gender, class, and gentrification. I accept the importance of class formation in understanding the relationship between gender and gentrification, and seek to supplement existing empirical studies by further exploring gender and class practices in a range of neighbourhoods, Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative sources I present a detailed analysis of social change in two inner-urban neighb…
Spatialising affect; affecting space: An Introduction
Spatialising affect; affecting space: an introduction." Gender, Place & Culture, 11(3), pp. 373–374
Gender, Class, and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscapes
Informed by feminist debates about the distinction between public and private in western urban societies, this article examines some urban landscapes created or transformed in recent decades with a view to assessing the extent to which emancipatory conceptions of gender are apparent. Evidence drawn from the city of Edinburgh shows how divisions between public space and private space operate at different scales and take different forms in differen…
Feeling insecure: A Personal Account in a Psychoanalytic Voice
The concept of ontological security has been taken up in human geography primarily through Giddens' (1990 Giddens, A. (1990) The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Google Scholar], 1991 Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Google Scholar]) formulation, but the idea has its origins in the writings of the existential psychoanalyst R.D. Laing. Returning to the psychoanalytic underpinnings of the…
Gender symbols and urban landscapes
Cities, towns and many elements within them are persistent features of social organization. So too are gender divisions. Yet both also have considerable fluidity. Urban environments are everchanging and so too, in different ways, are our ideas and experiences of femininity and masculinity. This article is prompted by an apparent interplay between changing
On the relational dynamics of caring: A psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of women's care work
Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both care-givers and care-recipients. This article draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of psychotherapeutic practices…
Unlocking the cage door: The Spatiality of Counselling
This paper examines the spatiality of counselling, focusing on ideas about positions, boundaries and spaces emerging from practitioners' accounts. Counsellors describe counselling as a practice within which the relative positions of self and other are explored and negotiated. To that end, counsellors adopt a contradictory position in relation to expertise, claiming to be experts in not being experts. Counselling transgresses bureaucratic boundari…
Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling
An analysis is presented of how a particular psychotherapeutic practice, namely voluntary sector counselling, contributes to and resists neoliberal forms of governance. Neoliberal governmentality invokes a concept of the human subject as an autonomous, individualised, self-directing, decision-making agent, attributes fostered in different ways by psychotherapies and processes of professionalisation. In this context I explore accounts of counselli…
Lost in translation
Research and Therapy: Generating Meaning and Feeling Gaps
The author argues that qualitative research and psychotherapy are both projects of making meaning. Qualitative research may provide therapeutic opportunities for participants that sometimes generate confusion about appropriate boundaries, but psychotherapy does not have a monopoly on the therapeutic. The meanings (or stories) that qualitative research and psychotherapy generate circulate differently, qualitative research entering the public domai…
De-Gentrification and Economic Recession: The Case of New York City
A new debate has emerged in the literature on gentrification concerning the effects of the current economic recession. We criticize the terms of this debate for underplaying both the complexities and local specificities of gentrification. Exploring the course of gentrification in two localities in New York since the early 1970s, we show how the same city-wide processes can produce quite different effects in different places
Gender and dichotomy
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Geography: Space for Women
Teaching Reflexivity: Undoing or Reinscribing Habits of Gender
This paper outlines an approach used in a course designed to teach reflexivity as a research skill and explores what kind of gender intervention such teaching might constitute. Although inspired by feminist debates about the complex power dynamics of research relationships, the course in question does not focus specifically on gender issues. Instead it draws attention to the complex, diverse and subtle negotiations that take place within research…
Th Anniversary Address For a feminist geography of ambivalence
This article argues for and invokes an ambivalent feminist spatiality. Drawing on the idea that the position of feminist academic is a contradiction in terms, together with my ambivalence about presenting the Gender, Place and Culture 10th Anniversary Lecture, I illustrate ways in which feminists successfully inhabit unresolved tensions about academic authority. I then explore four themes in feminist politics—equality, autonomy, difference and de…
The best of times for some and the worst of times for others? Gender and class divisions in urban Britain today
On the Contours of Public Space: A Tale of Three Women
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…
Progress in geography and gender: Feminism and difference
Between the Woof and the Weft: A Response to Loretta Lees
Political Participation and School Closures: An Investigation of Bias in Local Authority Decision Making
The issue of middle-class bias in political participation is examined in the context of proposals to close primary schools in Manchester. Rates of participation show little variation between different social areas in the city. However, groups in relatively affluent areas enjoy slightly greater rates of success than others. More detailed analysis of a sample of protest groups highlights the significance of campaign style to group success. This, in…
Women Attached. The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children
A Situated Practice for (Re)Situating Selves: Trainee Counsellors and the Promise of Counselling
Geographies of care and welfare have neglected to consider a group of interrelated practices including counselling, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis, which are found in many different settings within modern welfare systems. In a number of influential studies, these psychological therapies have been described as self-oriented, narcissistic, and intensely individualistic. However, these commentaries fail to consider the specificity of particular p…
Gender and geography: Crossing boundaries
Women Attached. The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children
Gender and the city: Urban politics revisited
This chapter examines the importance of gender relations in urban politics. During the last decade, the concept ‘urban’ has been the subject of extensive debate. Previously, cities had often been classified according to the industries located within their boundaries or hinterlands. This approach presupposed a direct connection between local productive activities and the sustenance of the local, urban population. However, the city is no longer the…
Travails of teaching geography: Fending for ourselves: women as teachers of geography in higher education
Class and Space: The Making of Urban Society
Brings together material from social history, human geography, sociology, politics and anthropology to establish cross-disciplinary perspectives on class formation and conflict
Political Participation and School Closures: An Investigation of Bias in Local Authority Decision Making
The issue of middle-class bias in political participation is examined in the context of proposals to close primary schools in Manchester. Rates of participation show little variation between different social areas in the city. However, groups in relatively affluent areas enjoy slightly greater rates of success than others. More detailed analysis of a sample of protest groups highlights the significance of campaign style to group success. This, in…
Selecting schools for closure: Theory and practice in ‘rational’ planning
For more than a decade, LEAs have been under pressure to close schools. During this period the scale of contraction in school provision has been substantial but has nevertheless lagged behind DES expectations. This paper is concerned with the selection of schools for closure or amalgamation and examines in detail the procedures adopted and the proposals advanced in one LEA. While existing evidence suggests that the selection of schools for closur…
Progress in geography and gender: Feminism and difference
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Geography: Space for Women
Towards a Non‐Essentialist Feminist Pedagogy
Anna Maria Piussi's article “towards a pedagogy of sexual difference: education and female genealogy”, Gender and Education, 2, (2) 1990, is criticised on the grounds that it ignores differences between women, and that it fails to challenge the construction of gender as a binary opposition. An alternative interpretation of the relationship between the gendering of knowledge and women's subordination is put forward, and marshalled, in support of a…
Choice and Diversity in School Education: Comparing developments in the United Kingdom and the USA
(1991). Choice and Diversity in School Education: comparing developments in the United Kingdom and the USA. Comparative Education: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 125-134
Attainment at Primary Schools: An analysis of variations between schools
This paper uses multi‐level modelling techniques to examine variations in the reading attainment of primary school children in a Scottish education authority. At the individual level, measures of attainment at ages 7 to 8 and 11 to 12 are linked to data on socio‐economic background. Differences between girls and boys decrease with age while socio‐economic effects increase with age. Controlling for the background characteristics of individuals, si…
Gender Divisions and Gentrification: A Critique
This article presents a critique of the treatment of gender issues within analyses of gentrification. Despite frequent references to the importance of changes in the position of women in the labour market and the family, very few studies examine the possibility that gentrification might entail processes of gender constitution as well as processes of class constitution. Moreover those that do, focus on gender divisions of labour to the neglect of …
Gender and dichotomy
Gender symbols and urban landscapes
Cities, towns and many elements within them are persistent features of social organization. So too are gender divisions. Yet both also have considerable fluidity. Urban environments are everchanging and so too, in different ways, are our ideas and experiences of femininity and masculinity. This article is prompted by an apparent interplay between changing
Gendered Spaces
Gender and geography: Crossing boundaries
The Sphinx in the City
De-Gentrification and Economic Recession: The Case of New York City
A new debate has emerged in the literature on gentrification concerning the effects of the current economic recession. We criticize the terms of this debate for underplaying both the complexities and local specificities of gentrification. Exploring the course of gentrification in two localities in New York since the early 1970s, we show how the same city-wide processes can produce quite different effects in different places
Feminism and Geography
resent time spent with them as their parents seemed to. Some nannies X became deeply attached to their young charges despite the fact that these children would not represent a source of status to them, either in the present or even less in the future (who will be invited to degree ceremonies and christenings, or qualify for support in old age?). Surely this commitment must be something to value? And then there is the other side of the coin: surel…
Gender, Work and Space
Ubicar las políticas de la identidad
Ubicar las políticas de la identidad
Emancipating Space
On referees and anonymity: A comment on Symanski and Pickard
Gender, Class, and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscapes
Informed by feminist debates about the distinction between public and private in western urban societies, this article examines some urban landscapes created or transformed in recent decades with a view to assessing the extent to which emancipatory conceptions of gender are apparent. Evidence drawn from the city of Edinburgh shows how divisions between public space and private space operate at different scales and take different forms in differen…
On the Contours of Public Space: A Tale of Three Women
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…
Sociology (44 works) · Political science (31 works) · Gender Studies (26 works) · Gender Studies (22 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works)