‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’/
Faria, Caroline
‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’/ - sage, 2020. - vol 10, issue 1, 2020: (23–29 p.).
In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, we decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that we situate it in place, and are attentive to spatial, temporal, relational, and overlapping margins and centers. Second, we call for a more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is a lens onto and a site for the reproduction of spatial oppression and resistance. Last, we call for a reckoning with whiteness, a more sustained interrogation of its work both in spaces of domination and at the margins. A feminist postcolonial geographic assertion gives us perspective. It makes visible the situated and varied experiences of elided scholar-subjects in the Global South, and those otherwise marginal to the hegemonies of both Euro-American Anglo geography and its critics. And, in doing so, it forges new contours of connection, offering us more inclusive, complex, and disruptive opportunities for solidarity.
‘We didn’t have time to sit still and be scared’: A postcolonial feminist geographic reading of ‘An other geography’/ - sage, 2020. - vol 10, issue 1, 2020: (23–29 p.).
In this article, we respond to Oswin’s ‘An other geography’ from a feminist postcolonial geographic perspective. We make three interventions. First, we decenter Euro-American Anglo geography spatially, insisting that we situate it in place, and are attentive to spatial, temporal, relational, and overlapping margins and centers. Second, we call for a more embodied account, recognizing the intimate is a lens onto and a site for the reproduction of spatial oppression and resistance. Last, we call for a reckoning with whiteness, a more sustained interrogation of its work both in spaces of domination and at the margins. A feminist postcolonial geographic assertion gives us perspective. It makes visible the situated and varied experiences of elided scholar-subjects in the Global South, and those otherwise marginal to the hegemonies of both Euro-American Anglo geography and its critics. And, in doing so, it forges new contours of connection, offering us more inclusive, complex, and disruptive opportunities for solidarity.