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Human Geography

This guide highlights the resources for Human Geography, the study of human settlements in their places.
  • Defining human geography
  • Cultural geography
  • Economic geography
  • Feminist geography
  • Migration studies
    • Migration and detention
    • Diaporas
    • Refugees
    • Statelessness
  • Political geography
    • Feminist political geography
  • Geopolitics
  • Population studies
  • Place
  • Travel and tourism
  • Urban geography
    • The City
    • Gentrification
    • Redlining
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Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoFeminist geography from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Carrie Mott
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199874002
    Feminism exists to critically and self-reflexively examine regimes of power at work in everyday life. Through attention to social differences, such as gender, race, class, ethnicity, age, ability, and sexuality, feminist geography highlights the significance of difference in shaping experiences of space and place. Feminist geography emerged in the 1980s as a move within geography that took two primary directions.
  • Resource logoPolitical geography from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Jason Dittmer
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199874002
    ... Historically, political geography has largely concerned itself with the spatialities of the state, whether internal or external. In addition, early political geography often attempted to derive insights from the natural world, often leaving it open to accusations of environmental determinism. ...

Internet resource(s)

  • Political Geography Specialty Group
    • Link
    To provide a central focus and organization for political geographers by which they can achieve scholary growth and to improve the status and cohesion of the subdiscipline.
  • GEOPOL@LSV.UKY.EDU
    • Link
    A listserv for discussion about political geography.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for all facets of Geography? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

Introduction to Feminist Geography

The application of feminist theory and methodologies to understanding human geography. The intent of feminism is to investigate, reveal, challenge, and change gendered divisions in society. These divisions often manifest themselves as spatial divisions with men and women having different patterns of spatial activity, behaviour, and experiences of place. Feminist geography has thus sought to understand the relationship between gender divisions and spatial divisions, and to challenge their supposed naturalness and legitimacy. This includes examining gender roles and divisions in the discipline itself with respect to the foci of study, the history, and practice of geography, and the balance of men and women working as professional geographers and career structures (see women in geography), and challenging how geographical research is conceptualized and practised.

Feminist geography developed from the late 1970s onwards, building on the second wave feminist movement of the 1960s and radical geography’s challenge to examine and to transform spatial divisions in society. A principal argument was that gender roles and the uneven and unequal positions and power of women and men in society had up to then been largely ignored by geographers. Early work demonstrated that gender relations were the outcome of and reflected in the spatial structure of society. Men and women experience material inequalities in terms of access to work, wealth, power, and status that produce different spatial relations with respect to access to public and private space and time-geographies. For example, women are much more likely to experience spatial behaviour restricted to the home and delimited by child-care and domestic duties, and to undertake work that facilitates these duties such as a part-time job located close to home. These inequalities were shown to be reproduced through patriarchy, which is entrenched in social, political and economic institutions, and popular discourse and the media, and works to maintain a persistent, gendered power geometry. In subsequent work, feminist geographers highlighted the interrelations between patriarchy, identity, embodiment, and spatial subjectivities, and how their entangling produces gendered, embodied, and emotional geographies. Importantly, feminist scholarship has also examined the ways in which gendered divisions are historically and geographically differentiated, varying over time, and across space and cultures. Such studies show how gender relations have evolved in particular locales and how they are differently constituted and experienced in different places.

As with feminism more broadly, feminist geography has evolved over time so that it presently consists of a family of theoretical positions, ranging from approaches that are more structuralist in orientation, such as socialist feminism, that situates women’s oppression within the broader framework of class oppression and capital exploitation, through to post-structuralism that recognizes the plurality and differences amongst women and the contingent, relational, and contextual ways in which gender divisions are reproduced. Moreover, given its focus on power, feminist theory has been extended to understand and explain other forms of spatial division centred on identity and cultural politics. This has led to productive engagements of feminist theory with other social theories such as post-colonialism, for example. What unites these various approaches is a commitment to exposing gender and spatial divisions, and to tackle such divisions. Unlike many theoretical approaches that seek to be objective and impartial in the production of knowledge, feminism is explicitly ideological in that it seeks to transform that which it studies (see feminist standpoint theory).   ...

Castree, N., Kitchin, R., & Rogers, A. (2013). "Feminist geography." In A Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 Jan. 2022

In the Library's collections

To find items about political geography or geopolitics, you can physically browse the shelves in the call number range JC 319 through JC 323 on Berry Level 4 . Other books will be found in the D's, E's, F's, and J's.

When you search the online catalog, use the subject headings "political geography" or "geopolitics." Either subject heading will get you started. Don't forget about the related subject headings.

  • feminist political geography
  • gender in conflict management
  • political geography

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artFeminism: a very short introduction by Margaret Walters
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780192805102
    This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots as well as key issues including voting rights, the liberation of the sixties, and its relevance today. Margaret Walters touches on the difficulties and inequities that women still face more than forty years after the 'new wave' of 1960s feminism, such as how successful women are at combining domesticity, motherhood, and work outside the house. ...
  • Cover artThe Oxford handbook of gender and conflict by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes and Nahla Valji, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry JZ 6405 .W66 O94 2018
    ISBN: 9780199300983
    Traditionally, much of the work studying war and conflict has focused on men. Men commonly appear as soldiers, commanders, casualties, and civilians. Women, by contrast, are invisible as combatants, and, when seen, are typically pictured as victims. The field of war and conflict studies is changing: more recently, scholars of war and conflict have paid increasing notice to men as a gendered category and given sizeable attention to women's multiple roles in conflict and post-conflict settings. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict focuses on the multi-dimensionality of gender in conflict, yet it also prioritizes the experience of women, given both the changing nature of war and the historical de-emphasis on women's experiences. Today's wars are not staged encounters involving formal armies, but societal wars that operate at all levels, from house to village to city. Women are necessarily involved at each level. ...
  • Cover artTerritory: a short introduction by David Delaney
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781405118316
    This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. ...
  • Cover artThe women's movement inside and outside the state by Lee Ann Banaszak
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HQ 1426 .B27 2010
    ISBN: 9780521132862
    The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State argues that the mobilization and success of the U.S. women's movement cannot be fully understood without recognizing the presence of feminist activist networks inside the federal government. Utilizing in-depth interviews and historical sources, Lee Ann Banaszak's research documents the significant contributions that these insider activists made to the creation of feminist organizations and the vital roles that they played in the development and implementation of policies in many areas, including education, foreign policy, and women's health. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artEurope without borders: remapping territory, citizenship, and identity in a transnational age by Mabel Berezin; Martin Schain, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry JN 12 .E868 2003
    ISBN: 9780801874376
    The creation of the European Union in 1992 reflected new economic, political, and cultural realities on the continent. The dissolution of national borders and the easing of transit restrictions on people and goods with Europe, have contributed to a radical rethinking of such basic concepts as national sovereignty and citizenship. In Europe without Borders, Mabel Berezin and Martin Schain bring together leading experts from the fields sociology, political science, geography, psychology, and anthropology to examine the intersection of identity and territory in the new Europe. ...
  • Cover artGender and peacebuilding: all hands required by Maureen P. Flaherty, Thomas G. Matyók, Sean Byrne and Hamdesa Tuso, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry JZ 5538 .G435 2015
    ISBN: 9780739192603
    The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women's status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects requiring a gender focus, women and men experience most of the world in very different ways according to gender. Further, the reality is that humans who do not all fall neatly into one of these categories - male or female - often find their lives further challenged. ...
  • Cover artMapping women, making politics: feminist perspectives on political geography by Lynn Staeheli; Eleonore Kofman; Linda Peake, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry JC 321 .M36 2004
    ISBN: 9780415934497
    Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics including nationalism, migration, development, international relations, elections, social movements, governance and the environment in the Global North and South.

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

You can find articles about feminist political geography in various journals. To help you find those articles, you can use different article indexes. Below are listed some indexes for searching and a specific journal title. Or you can use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Issue cover artGender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography by Taylor & Francis
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    The aim of Gender, Place and Culture is to provide a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues. It also seeks to highlight the significance of such research for feminism and women's studies.
  • Resource logoWomen's studies international by EBSCO
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This resource includes references from a variety of Women's Studies bibliographic databases.
  • Resource logoWorldwide political science abstracts by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law, political geography, and public administration/policy. ...
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
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