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The spatialities of intersectional thinking

Fashioning Feminist Geographic Futures

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ID5777417
AuthorsSharlene Mollett (0000-0003-1702-6744, ,, corresponding author), Caroline V Faria (0000-0002-5375-6683, ,)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue4
Pages565-577
Publication date2018-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender Place & Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0966369x.2018.1454404
OpenAlexW2795424344
LanguageEN
Citations received114
References cited45

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 scholars to demonstrate that the interlocking violence of racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and capitalism have always constituted a spatial formation. Drawing on feminist geographic thought from the 1990s onwards, we highlight the influence of intersectional thinking on our discipline particularly concerning how racial, gendered and classed power operates in place and through space. These pieces have inspired and driven our work, and we extend them here, recognizing newer scholarship that extends and enriches feminist geography through a postcolonial intersectionality. We close by arguing that intersectional thinking is indispensable to feminist geography. Working in solidarity, across and through the interrogation of difference, with agreement and discord, we encourage a deeper feminist geographic engagement with intersectional thinkers, contributing to more critical (and hopeful) futures for our scholarship

Feminist epistemology · Interrogation · Intersectionality · Patriarchy · Reflexivity · Homelessness and Social Issues · Sex work and related issues · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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