Feminist digital geographies |
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Authors: | Sarah Elwood Agnieszka Leszczynski |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;2. School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | At a moment when disciplinary attentions are turning to the digital as a subject and object of geographic inquiry, we consider enduring contours and new directions in feminist digital geographies scholarship. We revisit the centrality of feminist critiques of Science to critical digital geographies and their predecessors, identifying axes of scholarly engagement that have emerged from feminist theory and praxis. Simultaneously, we acknowledge the resounding whiteness and heteronormativity of these theoretical origins. In the second half of the article, we trace new horizons of contemporary digital geographies scholarship that engage queer and critical race theory, postcolonial feminism, and black and queer code studies. These theoretical moves give voice to longstanding silences and are indispensable to a political and ethical digital geographic scholarship and praxis, as well as to re-making our technologies and ourselves as digital subjects. |
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Keywords: | Black code studies critical race geographies digital geographies feminist theory queer theory |
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