Recognizing and undisciplining feminist geography in the Caribbean |
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Authors: | Levi Gahman Tivia Collins |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography and The Institute of Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago;2. Levi.Gahman@gmail.com;4. The Institute of Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago |
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Abstract: | AbstractThe aim of this piece is to provide an overview of the state of feminist geography in the Anglo-Caribbean. In doing so via the metaphor of a gayap, we provide a précis of work that has been completed by feminist geographers across the region; offer an analysis of the historical, structural, and institutional obstacles of why it is not more robust; and propose that it can be seen across the region via an undisciplined and anti-orthodox standpoint. In addition, we review how Caribbean feminist scholarship and praxis contributes to feminist geographies through analyses of how people in the region, particularly women, are contesting, negotiating, disrupting, and responding to prevailing heteropatriarchal ideologies across differing social contexts and political arrangements within the Caribbean. |
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Keywords: | Activism Anglo-Caribbean Caribbean feminist geography knowledge production postcolonial geography |
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