If women are everywhere: tracing the multiplicity of women’s resistance to extraction in NSW, Australia

Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking

“…Implicit here are questions pertaining to intentionality and agency, not as fixed forms but as processual achievements, for ‘no one can presume to have the ability (or the right) to fully prescribe what resistance might look or feel like for anyone else (nor, indeed, our future selves)’ (Hughes, 2019: 4). These insights are also reflected in feminist geographical scholarship on emergent practices of political and ecological resistance, in all their ‘incompletion, incongruence and multiplicity’ (Ey, 2021: 3). Resistance as emergence is productive insofar as it provides for a means of thinking about political subjectivity as a modality that shifts constantly.…”

Political geography 1: Extractions

“…This is marked by increased inclusion of participants as coresearchers in the process of data collection and analyses (Davis et al, 2020). Localized resistance to resource extraction in Australia, as discussed by Ey (2020), avoids narrow gender analyses in favor of diverse approaches through both more-than-gender and more-than-human analyses of resistance movements. The political haranguing many scholars must contend with when studying race and gender continue to be fraught by national politics in various countries, while scholars and activists endeavor to find creative methods for challenging conventional knowledge regimes (Bagheri, 2019).…”