Citation

Fluri JL, Piedalue A. Gend. Place Cult. 2017; 24(4): 534-544.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/0966369X.2017.1329185

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The papers in this themed section collectively explore the intertwined geographies of corporeality and violence; to explore the ways in which narrow representations of race and culture are imbricated in the mis/understanding of gender based violence. This introductory essay draws out linkages across these papers, and to several themes in feminist geography. Combined, the four papers in the themed section offer new pathways for feminist geographers to consider. The authors connect the intimate and the global, the personal and the geopolitical, and offer critical insights into how feminist geographers might unpack entangled inequalities that give rise to distinct experiences of violence. Through their disparate studies, the authors also destabilize the assumptions mapped onto gendered bodies, particularly those that rely on racist, sexist, and classist representations of 'culture' and 'community' to describe gendered vulnerability. Subsequently, their analyses reveal how these assumptions simultaneously work to erase or ignore structural inequalities of capitalism or the state, which frame, contribute to and perpetuate violence against vulnerable bodies and geographies. They collectively underscore the epistemological, methodological and ontological possibilities of corporeal geographies particularly when tasked with intellectually analyzing both exceptional and everyday experiences of violence.

Language: en

Keywords

desigualdades sistémicas; embodiment; encarnación; Gendered violence; resistance; resistencia; systemic inequalities; Violencia generizada; 体现; 反抗; 性别化的暴力; 系统性的不平等