Not Everyone Has (the) Balls: Urban Exploration and the Persistence of Masculinist Geography |
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Authors: | Carrie Mott Susan M Roberts |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, , Lexington, KY, USA;2. University of Kentucky;3. , Department of Geography, University of Turku, , Finland |
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Abstract: | In geographic scholarship, urban exploration (urbex) has been examined as an embodied practice with radical potential for re‐appropriating urban spaces. However, geographic literature on urban exploration has largely ignored the particular qualities of the urban explorer as a subject and neglected feminist scholarship on embodiment and social difference. Based on our examination of both popular and academic treatments of urbex we identify a prevalent and largely unacknowledged culture of masculinism. We ask: Whose bodies explore? What counts as experience? What constitutes the exchange between body and place? And, with what effects? Addressing these questions permits considerations of exclusions and marginalizations left unaddressed in much geographic literature on urbex. |
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Keywords: | urban exploration urbex feminism masculinism embodiment difference |
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