Refractions and recombinations of the ‘economic’ and the ‘social’: a personalized reflection on challenges by—and to—feminist urban geographies

Rose, Damaris

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00316.x

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“…Yet this focus on public and institutional spaces has tended to overshadow the political importance of domestic space, which reinforces larger tropes of home as a feminized sphere cut off from the larger world of politics and economics. In the US, the boundary between home and work flows from a historic ideology of the home as a refuge for men to return to after long hours of work (England and Lawson ; Rose ). Feminist geographers have asserted the importance of the domestic sphere to urban dynamics and deconstructed the ideological separation between private and public spaces (Hanson and Pratt ; Mackenzie ; Mitchell et al ; Watson ).…”

Section: A Geographic History Of Us Homelessness and Domestic Spacementioning

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“It's not like your home”: Homeless Encampments, Housing Projects, and the Struggle over Domestic Space

Speer

2016

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Based on an analysis of housing projects and homeless encampments in Fresno, California, this paper argues that both anti-homeless policing and housing provision mutually constrain homeless people's expressions of home, such that struggles over domestic space have become integral to the contemporary politics of US homelessness. In particular, this article asserts that contemporary homelessness policy is marked by a clash between competing visions of home. While housing projects in Fresno are based on a model of privatized and surveilled apartments, people who lived in local encampments often asserted alternative notions of home grounded in community rather than family, mutual care rather than institutional care, and appropriation rather than consumption. Meanwhile, local officials viewed such alternative domestic spaces as non-homes worthy of destruction. Rather than valorizing domestic struggles above public or institutional struggles, this article seeks to move beyond geographic binaries to more holistically approach the politics of US homelessness.

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Section: A Geographic History Of Us Homelessness and Domestic Spacementioning

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“It's not like your home”: Homeless Encampments, Housing Projects, and the Struggle over Domestic Space

Speer

2016

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“…Yet this focus on public and institutional spaces has tended to overshadow the political importance of domestic space, which reinforces larger tropes of home as a feminized sphere cut off from the larger world of politics and economics. In the US, the boundary between home and work flows from a historic ideology of the home as a refuge for men to return to after long hours of work (England and Lawson 2005;Rose 2010). Feminist geographers have asserted the importance of the domestic sphere to urban dynamics and deconstructed the ideological separation between private and public spaces (Hanson and Pratt 1988;Mackenzie 1989;Watson 1991;Mitchell et al 2003).…”

Section: A Geographic History Of Us Homelessness and Domestic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Based on an analysis of housing projects and homeless encampments in Fresno, California, this paper argues that both anti-homeless policing and housing provision mutually constrain homeless people's expressions of home, such that struggles over domestic space have become integral to the contemporary politics of US homelessness. In particular, this article asserts that contemporary homelessness policy is marked by a clash between competing visions of home. While housing projects in Fresno are based on a model of privatized and surveilled apartments, people who lived in local encampments often asserted alternative notions of home grounded in community rather than family, mutual care rather than institutional care, and appropriation rather than consumption. Meanwhile, local officials viewed such alternative domestic spaces as nonhomes worthy of destruction. Rather than valorizing domestic struggles above public or institutional struggles, this article seeks to move beyond geographic binaries to more holistically approach the politics of US homelessness.

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“…They are stories written in many different forms. Some have circulated in introductions to Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lectures given over the past decade and a half and in the subsequent publications of these lectures (e.g., Hyndman 2001;Rose 2010;Peake 2015). Importantly, they are stories full of women's everyday lives embedded in the body of work Suzanne herself published (e.g., Mackenzie 1999), a body of work credited with bringing for the first time "the active human subject into space, into the landscape of geography," and, through its use of feminist methods and methodologies, introducing "a new conceptual language" that pushed the discipline beyond positivism and empiricism into realizations that "material environments are also metaphorical" (Hayford 2010).…”

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Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo‐graphing in colonial Canada

Leeuw

2017

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls for new actions to address Canada's colonial history and colonial present; geographers are implicated in this call.Undertaking logical, linear, or even coherent work about colonial violence risks reproducing it by trying to make sense of and bring closure to something that should, for settler Canadians, remain raw and unsettled.Poetry offers a way of writing about colonial violence by opening new "language-spaces," new geo-graphing possibilities, that refuse existing narratives about colonialism.This paper is anchored in two recent and concurrent openings, openings that offer opportunities for geographers to consider new modes of engaging colonial violence. The first opening is the release, in Canada, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report and calls to action. By demanding new types of settler-subject attention to Indigenous peoples and places, it opens new spaces for extending reflection about anti-Indigenous racism and colonial violence in Canadian consciousness. The second opening is geography's growing uptake of creative and humanities-informed theories and practices. These manifest in new knowledges and practices with consequent possibilities for addressing colonial violence. I consider these two openings first by proposing changes to conversations about settler-normalized violences lived by Indigenous peoples, and, second by engaging poets working to radically re/configure language and written expression. Specifically, the paper ends with a call for geographers-particularly non-Indigenous settler geographersto rethink ways (and forms) by which we produce knowledge, especially about colonialism and Indigenous geographies and especially in and through writing practices. The paper is experimental in form, meant to disrupt easy uptake or digestion of ideas that must remain-for settler subjects-fundamentally ragged, upsetting, and always beyond conclusion, coherence, or closure.

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Refractions and recombinations of the ‘economic’ and the ‘social’: a personalized reflection on challenges by—and to—feminist urban geographies

Cited by 7 publications

References 77 publications

“It's not like your home”: Homeless Encampments, Housing Projects, and the Struggle over Domestic Space

“It's not like your home”: Homeless Encampments, Housing Projects, and the Struggle over Domestic Space

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Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo‐graphing in colonial Canada

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