Feminist Geography and “Nature”
AAG 2007 Paper Session
Organised by Laura Shillington (York University, Toronto, Canada) and Andrea
Nightingale (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK).
Discussant: Leila Harris (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Feminist geographic research on nature and ‘natural’ environment has changed
significantly in the past decade. From very specific research on women and
environment to gender, environment and development and feminist political
ecology, feminist geographers have explored many aspects of the complex
human-environment relations and interactions. Recently, however, work has
tended to focus less on specific gender and nature/’environment’ relations and
more on themes around of networks and being-in-relation. ‘Nature’ has been
taken up in feminist geography quite differently than in human-environment
geographies. This paper session seeks to explore this difference and to revisit
gender and nature/‘environment’. It explores why ‘gender’ has become less of an
analytical lens in human-environment geographies and why feminist geography has
not engaged more intimately in the nature-society debates that now dominate
human-environment geographies. This paper session is seeking papers in
feminist geography that talks explicitly about nature and/or in
human-environment geography with a focus on feminism (e.g. gender, race,
sexuality).
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