Gender, sex, space and place: Women and gender geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand

Watkins, Alison; Fisher, Karen

doi:10.1111/nzg.12144

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“…What this means is that a politics of visibility and representation is still an ongoing issue in geographic knowledge-making in our country. We note, however, the successful stream on Gender, Sex, Place and Space (Watkins and Fisher 2016), the generative panel discussion "Gendered Geographies and Academic Work" (Davies et al 2016), and the welcome presence of parent-geographers with babies in arms. We also note that other key conferences attended and organised by geographers have had better outcomes: the annual Social Movements, Resistance and Social Change conference has a strong indigenous presence, and the Aotearoa New Zealand Development Studies Network goes beyond the white male dominance of the geographical society meetings.…”

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Feminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments

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Adams-Hutcheson

Bartos

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Gender, Place & Culture

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Place, culture and time are significant in our gendered experiences as teachers and scholars of feminist geography. Our context is complex, situated, sometimes joyful and sometimes hurtful, but also intriguing and exciting. Aotearoa New Zealand is a nation of promise, potential and enigma: it was the first country in the world where women gained the vote in 1893 and now boasts the youngest woman world leader in 2017. It is also a postcolonial nation where structural racism, homophobia, and sexism persist, yet it also has given legal personhood to a river. During the 2017 national election a young Pākēha (New Zealander of European descent) woman lead her party to victory while a young Māori (Indigenous New Zealander) woman was ousted as head of her political party. The former secured the leadership of her party six weeks out from election day; the latter became a spokeswoman and advocate for those negotiating the intersections of poverty, motherhood and ethnicity. In this Country Report, we reflect on our current political and cultural context to highlight some of the common themes Aotearoa New Zealand-based feminist geographers have been exploring in research, teaching and praxis. We have published this piece as a network of feminist geographers, the Women and Gender Geographies Research Network (WGGRN), which is an alliance of people who learn, teach and research gender in geography and related disciplines throughout the country. We have embraced this acronym to express the collective nature of the knowledge making process. In writing this piece, our preference was to not italicise words from te reo Māori (the Māori language) that are

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Section: First Moment: Geopolitics Of Representation and Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 82%

Feminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments

Wggrn¹,

Adams-Hutcheson

Bartos

et al. 2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…To amplify these research contributions, and when the conference was over, presenters were invited to submit a manuscript based on their presentation to the New Zealand Geographer , hence this themed issue. We add to and build on previous special issues on gender and feminist geography in Aotearoa in the New Zealand Geographer , including: Women and Gender Geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand (Watkins & Fisher, 2016); Revisiting Geographies of Sexualities and Gender Down Under (Gorman‐Murray & Morrison, 2012); Evelyn Stokes and Geography at the University of Waikato (Bedford & Longhurst, 2005); Feminist Geography in Aotearoa New Zealand (Lees, 1995); and Feminist Perspectives in Geography (Stokes et al, 1987).…”

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Gendered geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking in Aotearoa feminist geography scholarship

Adams‐Hutcheson,

Johnston,

Ringham

2023

N Z Geog

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Aotearoa New Zealand feminist geographies involve alliances of connected and vibrant researchers who pay close attention to the politics of knowledge production, power, intersectionality and decolonisation. Safe spaces to speak and write together have been nurtured over time ‘down under’ due to a collective politics of care and mentoring. This special issue demonstrates the strength of collective thinking on resistance, resilience and reworking contemporary geographical practice in Aotearoa. The four empirically based and theoretically informed articles develop new thinking about resistance to colonialism, patriarchy, racism, metricisation and oppression. These critical articles contribute to feminist geographical knowledges both locally and globally.

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Assembling disruptive practice in the neoliberal university: an ethics of care

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2019

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Gender, sex, space and place: Women and gender geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Feminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments

Feminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments

Gendered geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking in Aotearoa feminist geography scholarship

Assembling disruptive practice in the neoliberal university: an ethics of care

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