Not Everyone Has (the) Balls: Urban Exploration and the Persistence of Masculinist Geography

Mott, Carrie; Roberts, Sidney

doi:10.1111/anti.12033

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“…Shared cultures of drinking (during fieldwork or in the pub) were likewise identified as an exclusionary practice for those who were not included, were made to feel they didn't ‘fit’ or were barred from participation by other commitments. The observations of respondents resonated with debates in geography about, for example, masculinist cultures of fieldwork (Rose ; Sundberg ; Bracken and Mawdsley ) and ways of thinking (Longhurst and Johnston ; Mott and Roberts ). There are also obvious implications for those whose religious observance bars them from social spaces and practices of alcohol consumption, as well as those who may have alcohol‐related problems.…”

Section: Attending To the ‘Gap’: Binding Cultures Of Equality Into Thmentioning

confidence: 79%

Mind the gap: gender disparities still to be addressed in UK Higher Education geography

Maddrell

Strauss

Thomas

et al. 2015

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This paper evidences persistent gender inequalities in UK higher education (HE) geography departments. The two key sources of data used are: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data for staff and students, which affords a longitudinal response to earlier surveys by McDowell and McDowell and Peake of women in UK university geography departments, and a qualitative survey of the UK HE geography community undertaken in 2010 that sought more roundly to capture respondent reflections on their careers, choices, status and experiences. Findings show that although the gender gap is closing within HE geography in the UK there are significant ongoing gender disparities. Therefore, the paper argues that the long and demanding process of reducing gender inequalities (alongside other, equally vital intersectional inequalities) requires continued commitment. Furthermore, respondents evidence the cost of these inequalities: enablers and barriers to job security and career progression can have long-term impacts on quality of life and financial security, and affect personal life decisions. In recent years the UK-based Athena Swan and Gender Equality Charter Mark agendas have prompted universities to address gendered disparities and the authors note a changing zeitgeist. The survey findings point to the need for sustained leadership within geography departments to address the day-to-day gender -and other -inequalities experienced in the workplace.The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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Section: Attending To the ‘Gap’: Binding Cultures Of Equality Into Thmentioning

confidence: 79%

Mind the gap: gender disparities still to be addressed in UK Higher Education geography

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Thomas

et al. 2015

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“…To be clear, the case of airline hackers is not necessarily a subversive or even democratic activity as the motivations and effects are focused on personal gain. Encoded rules often exist for good reason and thus hacking is not inherently emancipatory (Mott & Roberts, ), and has the potential to undermine well‐intentioned and socially beneficial systems. However, our analysis demonstrates how playful, transgressive and mischievous approaches can repurpose and recreate the code/spaces of airlines and beyond.…”

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Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism

Zook

Graham

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Information-technologies are essential for global capitalism to function at speed across scale, space and complexity. The importance of software and algorithms in the governance of these systems is reflected in the attention of scholars to the ways digital code and materiality (re)combine to create hybrid digital/material spaces of economic activity, movement and everyday life. This paper extends this work in two key ways: first by emphasising the relational aspect of these code/ spaces, and second by showing how the digital algorithms of code/spaces are hackable rather than hegemonic. Using the case study of frequent flyer programmes we demonstrate how networked knowledge-sharing reshapes code/spaces to provide unintended opportunities such as low-cost travel and access to spaces normally only frequented by global elites. Although this case highlights vulnerabilities in the code of global capitalism, it is primarily only those with significant lifestyle privilege who are able to fully participate in these subversions. Moreover, while much of the value captured by "airline hackers" comes from airlines' profit margins, the relationality of code/spaces can impact citizens and consumers not directly connected to or interested in airline travel. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates that in contrast to characterisations of omnipresence and hegemony, the information networks and algorithms of global capitalism contain moments of uneven porousness and selective hackability. K E Y W O R D Sair travel, airlines, code/space, digital life, hacking

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“…The ecological lifestyle proposed by these eco‐communities is, however, far from inclusive and relies upon numerous assumptions about particular bodily capacities (Imrie ; Newton and Omerod ). Many of the activities advocated rely on a physically strong, dexterous and active body – to maintain ecological systems on site and in houses, to operate eco‐houses, to grow food and to move about site without using vehicles (Mott and Roberts ). Little consideration has been given to those unable to undertake these tasks and the material infrastructure (such as doorways, gates and latches) have all been designed and built to suit a conventional body.…”

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Making space for disability in eco‐homes and eco‐communities

Bhakta

Pickerill

2015

Geographical Journal

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There is continued failure to build homes for diverse and disabled occupancy. We use three eco‐communities in England to explore how their eco‐houses and wider community spaces accommodate the complex disability of hypotonic cerebral palsy. Using site visits, video footage, spatial mapping, field diary observations, surveys and interviews, this paper argues that little attention has been paid to making eco‐communities and eco‐houses accessible. There are, we argue, three useful and productive ways to interrogate accessibility in eco‐communities, through understandings of legislation, barriers and mobility. These have three significant consequences for eco‐communities and disabled access: ecological living as practised by these eco‐communities relies upon particular bodily capacities, and thus excludes many disabled people; disabled access was only considered in relation to the house and its thresholds, not to the much broader space of the home; and eco‐communities need to be, and would benefit from being, spaces of diverse interaction.

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Not Everyone Has (the) Balls: Urban Exploration and the Persistence of Masculinist Geography

Cited by 98 publications

References 36 publications

Mind the gap: gender disparities still to be addressed in UK Higher Education geography

Mind the gap: gender disparities still to be addressed in UK Higher Education geography

Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism

Making space for disability in eco‐homes and eco‐communities

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