This paper develops a feminist political ecology of disaster colonialism. It does so via an analysis of a series of fires in one of the largest markets in East Africa.
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 “global intimate mapping” to ask, empirically: how are new transnational trade networks reflected in the cityscape and the bodies of brides? And conceptually: what productive insight does feminist GIS offer for feminist political and economic geographies?
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 intersectional understanding of capitalism, and its work driving urban displacement, as always co‐produced through gender, racial, colonial, heteronormative, nationalist, and other power‐geometries. We assert that feminist postcolonial geography helps us imagine other urban futures, within and beyond Africa: critical of colonial past‐presents; free of the modernizing imperatives of normative urban planning; and that recognize the work and insights—intellectual and material—of African women.
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