Autobiography &amp; Geography: Introduction

Fuchs, Miriam

doi:10.1353/bio.2002.0005

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“…Shephard's (figure 1) struggle was an especially complex one in this regard. This struggle began with her movement from Britain to India, and the challenge of relating her experiences has much to gain from the resurgent engagements between geography and biography (Daniels and Nash, 2004;Fuchs, 2002). Geographers have brought their own specialist skills in spatial analysis to bear on relating life stories as influenced by context, movement, relations, or environment (Thomas, 2004).…”

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An Intimate and Imperial Feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial India

Legg

2010

Environ Plan D

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This paper seeks to construct an antinostalgic portrait of an imperial feminist. As the representative of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) in India between 1928 and 1947, Meliscent Shephard was an embodiment not only of the feminist urge to challenge patriarchal gender relations, but also of the imperialist urge to classify and fathom the world through a series of racist typologies. Despite an earlier belief that blame for the exploitation of prostitutes lay with the colonial state and economy, she later fell back on explanations based on notions of Indian society and religion. Operating in a period of heightened anticolonial nationalism, these latter views thwarted any hope of her forging successful connections with emergent Indian social reform groups. This failure to cultivate intimate relations with Indian colleagues marks a failure at the level of national and racial politics. Shephard did, however, cultivate an intimate relationship with correspondents at the AMSH in London, while her experiences of the sexual geographies of Indian cities provided a form of intimate interaction that would inspire her mission to close down tolerated brothels. As such, this paper marks an empirical engagement with the intimate frontiers at which the affective grid of colonial politics was marked out.

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An Intimate and Imperial Feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial India

Legg

2010

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“…My engagement with old stuff therefore includes the non-material—the recollected moments and events, as well as objects that contribute to a partial, selective and personally biased social history. I build on earlier work on autoethnography (Anderson, 2006; Fuchs, 2002; Moss, 2001) to enable my researcher self to speak as a research participant (Butz and Besio, 2009; Ellis and Bochner, 2000). As Ngunjiri et al.…”

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Trashion treasure: A longitudinal view of the allure and re-functioning of discarded objects

Shaw

2018

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As the saying goes, one person’s trash is another’s treasure. Analyses of current reuse movements focus generally on a politics of uncoupling from capitalist consumption traps and commodity fetishism. The perspective presented here considers other motivations by tracing desires for specific kinds of objects, from the past. I consider current reuse debates from a subcultural perspective, of inner-urban living in the late 1970s and 1980s. With the assistance of autoethnography, I delve into this urban subculture, known for its reliance on Do-It-Yourself. This included practices of Do-It-Yourself housing, furnishings, clothing and music, and the reliance on the reuse of preowned materials which, in turn, were often also discarded as part of this transient way of living. I therefore highlight the practice of disposable fast-fashion enabled through reuse. This included the display of ‘tasteless’ object d’art. With my personal history as a backdrop, I highlight the complexity of reuse politics that sometimes reaches beyond anti-consumerist imperatives. Specific reference is made to now highly collectable objects such as ‘Aboriginalia’ and other pieces emblazoned with caricatures of ‘noble savages’. The current collectability of these now rare objects, points to a subtle and often hidden politics of racialised nostalgia.

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“…Daniels and Nash (2004, 450) have introduced the term ‘life geographies’ to denote attempts to understand the spaces that impact upon human existence. There has also been recent interest in geographical themes amongst conventional biographers (Fuchs 2002).…”

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Becoming a geographical scientist: oral histories of Arctic fieldwork

Powell¹

2008

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines the development of a geographical sensibility amongst field scientists involved in the Polar Continental Shelf Project (PCSP) during the late 1950s and early 1960s. This is achieved by using oral histories collected from scientists and other field personnel. These oral testimonies reveal a number of important issues for historians of geography. These include the interrelation of scientific practices in the field and the association of an interdisciplinary stance towards Arctic science with a particular understanding of geographical identity. It appears that the community of actors taking vocational and professional meaning from the practice of geography is much larger than is usually considered to be the case. The paper concludes by discussing the implications for debates about disciplinary identity and belonging in geography.

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Autobiography & Geography: Introduction

Cited by 5 publications

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An Intimate and Imperial Feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial India

An Intimate and Imperial Feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial India

Trashion treasure: A longitudinal view of the allure and re-functioning of discarded objects

Becoming a geographical scientist: oral histories of Arctic fieldwork

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