Unnatural discourse. ‘Race’ and gender in geography

Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California

“…Although the study of racial inequality is not new to geographers (Anderson, 1987;Gilmore, 1998;Jackson and Penrose, 1994;Kobayashi and Peake, 1994;S. Smith, 1993;Woods, 1998), environmental racism offers us new insights into the subject, particularly its spatiality.…”

Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto

“…In other words, social relations of difference are not merely additive, instead the experience of one transforms the experience of the others. Taken together, gender,`race'/ethnicity, class and so on form interlocking, relational systems of oppression and privilege within which there are a multiplicity of identities, which in turn gain meaning in relation to other identities (Spelman, 1988;hooks, 1989;Hill-Collins, 1990;McDowell, 1991;Kobayashi & Peake, 1994;Ruddick, 1996). In this paper we explore the experiential pluralities of women in paid domestic work, keeping in mind hooks' words that`interlocking systems of domination ¼ acknowledge the diversity and complexity of female experience, of (their) relationship to power and domination ' (1989, p. 21).…”

Esclavitud, género y racialización en Alicante: la colonización de los cuerpos femeninos (ss. XVII-XVIII)

“…Algo urgente, pues "ningún aspecto de la disciplina, ni ninguna teoría espacial ha escapado de la racialización" (Peake & Kobayashi, 2002, p. 50). Así, las citadas autoras, que también han escrito una prolífica literatura feminista (Kobayashi, 2006;Kobayashi & Peake, 1994;Peake & Rieker, 2013;Staeheli, Kofman, & Peake, 2004) animaron a pensar desde el enfoque de raza y a introducirlo tanto en la investigación como en la enseñanza de la geografía, además de en la estructura de las instituciones académicas.…”