Landscapes of women and men: rethinking the regional historical geography of the United States and Canada

Kay, Jeanne

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“…One consequence is that the images of the past are evident in the myths of the present. The importance of including women is not simply to add more historical actors, but to gain a new perspective, remove the distortions of the past, and ultimately present a more accurate and probably a very different view of the past (Armitage, 1987;Kay, 199 1).…”

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Nonmetropolitan Geography: Migration, Sense of Place, and the American West

Rudzitis

1993

Urban Geography

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Nonmetropolitan Geography: Migration, Sense of Place, and the American West

Rudzitis

1993

Urban Geography

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“…Indeed, colonialism and its ideological justi cation exempli ed by travel writing, were crucial components of nascent geography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, and provided the basis for its constitution as a science (Capel, 1994;Driver, 1994;Godlewska & Smith, 1994). Increasingly gender has been an important element of such studies (Kay, 1991;Domosh, 199la, l991b;Blunt & Rose, 1994;Blunt, 1994;Hall & Kinnaird, 1994;Radcliffe, 1994;Squire, 1995;McEwan, 1996;Olafsdottir, 1996), to which this essay also contributes. Increasingly gender has been an important element of such studies (Kay, 1991;Domosh, 199la, l991b;Blunt & Rose, 1994;Blunt, 1994;Hall & Kinnaird, 1994;Radcliffe, 1994;Squire, 1995;McEwan, 1996;Olafsdottir, 1996), to which this essay also contributes.…”

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Voices from the Margins: Gendered images of ‘Otherness’ in colonial Morocco

Ramón¹,

Albet-Mas²,

Nogué-Font³

et al. 1998

Gender, Place & Culture

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The main goal of this essay is to stu dy a book-El Marroc sensual i fanàticof travel writings written by a Catalan woman traveller, and to put it within the context of the recent scholarship that relates, on the one hand, travel narrative with Orientalism and gender and, on the other, geography and colonialism. The con tradictory nature of the contents of the book leads us to challenge the notion of simple 'Othering' as presented in Said's works where the heterogeneity of colonial power is neglected in a totalising dichotomy between the colon ising Self and the colonising Other. T he contemporary Spanish of cial discourse was indeed pro-colonial and paternalistic and often drew on notions of shared history and geographical proximity in order to legitimise an 'altruistic' colonial presence. The author's position is very different from this of cial discourse, but is deeply ambivalent. Her ambivalence arises from her gender which allows her to live the last Spanish colonial adventure as an outsider, and also from her position ing in Spanish politics. The confrontation between different cultures and traditions is sharply delineated in her accounts on M oroccan women, the primary aim of her travel. The (cultural) impermeability of the Others, with whom she would like to identify deeply, yet with whom she cannot really communicate, forces her to construct her own vision of the identity of these O thers, projecting her own view of (W estern) feminism. The essay demonstrates the importance of focusing on narratives that come from the margins (and particularly from female authors). These provide new perspectives which can destabilise established conceptions of the colonial relationship and, at the same time they can broaden the conceptual and factual history of our disciplines.The aim of this article [l] is to analyse a book of travel writings produced by a woman, Aurora Bertrana, and to set it within the context of recent scholarship relating, on the one hand, travel narrative with Orientalism and gender and, on the other, geography and colonialism . The book, El M arroc sensual i fanàtic, was written in Catalan and published in Barcelona in 1936, only a few weeks before the onset women travellers has been carried out by Englishspeaking authors and on English-speaking women travellers. Our essay, then, tries to contribute to this eld by providing material from the margins, a book written in Catalan, a minority language, and mainly dealing with a minor (in this century) colonial power, and a small, and again marginal, colony, the Spanish Zone in Northern Morocco.

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“…And, although historical geographers (as subdisciplinary members of human geography) were actually part of the vanguard within this movement through their interests in locality studies and the urban experience, they still tended to aggregate the primary evidence and use the experience of the individual human subject only for anecdotal flavor (Earle et al 1989;Harvey 1985), simply because there was not enough material available to say something systematic and scientifically grounded. Until the rise of feminist theory within historical geography, historical geographers tended only to use the official and masculinist-oriented archival record as the main means to understand experience-and that record has been fragmented at best (Domosh and Morin 2003;Kay 1991;Morin and Berg 1999;Rose and Ogborn 1988). Now, engagement with feminist theory, in particular, and postmodernism, in general, has raised questions about positionality and provenance and subjectivities of various sorts, and has transformed oral history and folklore into acceptable ways to engage the human subject in the past (Earle 1995).…”

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Historical Archaeo-Geographies of Scaled Statehood: American Federalism and Material Practices of National Prohibition in California, 1917–1933

Mosher

Wilkie

2010

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________________________________________________________________This paper discusses the ways that a more explicit engagement with the discipline of historical geography could contribute to archaeologies of the recent and contemporary past. Scholars working in this time period must consider multiple scales of connectivity between people and places through time and would benefit from political geography's recent theorizing on scale and the state. We present a preliminary case study of what we term a historical archeo-geography drawing upon archaeological materials from late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century sites to demonstrate how state and federal legislation is enacted at the household level. ________________________________________________________________Résumé: Cette étude aborde de quelles façons une participation plus affirmée pour la discipline de la géographie humaine pourrait favoriser les archéologies du passé récent et du passé contemporain. Les universitaires qui travaillent sur cette période doivent prendre en compte les niveaux multiples de relation qui existent entre les individus et les lieux à travers le temps; ils bénéficieraient de la théorisation récente sur l'échelle en matière de géographie humaine et de l'État. Nous présentons une étude de cas préliminaire de ce que nous appelons l'archéogéographie historique, en nous appuyant sur les objets archéologiques provenant de sites de la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu'au milieu du XXe siècle pour montrer comment la législation des États et de la fédération se traduisait en pratique dans les foyers. Resumen: El presente trabajo plantea la cuestió n de si un compromiso más explícito con la disciplina de la geografía humana podría ayudar en los trabajos arqueoló gicos del pasado reciente y contemporáneo. Los académicos que trabajan en este periodo de tiempo deben tener en cuenta varias escalas de conectividad entre las personas y los lugares a través del tiempo, con lo que se beneficiarían de la reciente teoría sobre geografía humana centrada en la escala y el estado. Presentamos un estudio de caso previo de lo que hemos denominado «arqueogeografía histó rica», basándonos en materiales arqueoló gicos procedentes de yacimientos de finales el siglo XIX y XX, para demostrar có mo se aprueba la legislació n estatal y federal a escala interna.

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Landscapes of women and men: rethinking the regional historical geography of the United States and Canada

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Nonmetropolitan Geography: Migration, Sense of Place, and the American West

Nonmetropolitan Geography: Migration, Sense of Place, and the American West

Voices from the Margins: Gendered images of ‘Otherness’ in colonial Morocco

Historical Archaeo-Geographies of Scaled Statehood: American Federalism and Material Practices of National Prohibition in California, 1917–1933

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