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Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban

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Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban

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Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban book

Edited ByLinda Peake, Martina Rieker
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 20 May 2013
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203568439
Pages 240
eBook ISBN 9780203568439
Subjects Area Studies, Built Environment, Development Studies, Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Geography, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
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Peake, L., & Rieker, M. (Eds.). (2013). Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203568439

ABSTRACT

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban.

In a world in which the majority of the population now live in urban centres, they take as their starting point the need to examine the production of knowledge about the city through the problematic divide of the global north and south, asking what might a feminist intervention, a position itself fraught with possibilities and problems, into this dominant geographical imaginary look like. Providing a meaningful discussion of the ways in which feminism, gender and women have been understood in relation to the city and urban studies, they ask probing and insightful questions that indicate new directions for theory and research, illustrating the necessity of a re-formulation of the north-south divide as a critical and urgent project for feminist urban studies.

Working through platforms as diverse as policy formulations and telling stories, the contributors to the book come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographic locations ranging through the Caribbean, North America, Western Europe, South, East and South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. They identify a range of issues (such as care, work, violence, the household, mobility, intimacy and poverty) that they analytically address to make sense of and reanimate resistance to the contemporary urban through articulations of new grammars of gendered geographies of justice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|22 pages

Rethinking feminist interventions into the urban

ByLINDA PEAKE, MARTINA RIEKER

chapter 2|18 pages

Urban neoliberalism, urban insecurity and urban violence: exploring the gender dimensions

ByLESLIE KERN, BEVERLEY MULLINGS

chapter 3|11 pages

Feminism, urban knowledge and the killing of politics

ByMELISSA W. WRIGHT

chapter 4|16 pages

Transnational city lives: changing patterns of care and neighbouring

ByDINA VAIOU

chapter 5|22 pages

New mobile women in South China: narratives of female success and the imagination of development in the Pearl River Delta

ByTSUNG-YI MICHELLE HUANG

chapter 6|18 pages

Retelling stories, resisting dichotomies: staging identity, marginalization and activism in Minneapolis and Sitapur

BySOFIA SHANK, RICHA NAGAR

chapter 7|17 pages

Unsettling narratives: global households, urban life and a politics of possibility

ByGERALDINE PRATT

chapter 8|17 pages

Feminist perspectives on urban poverty: de-essentialising difference

ByANN VARLEY

chapter 9|17 pages

Interrogating gendered silences in urban policy: regionalism and alternative visions of a caring region

ByGERDA R. WEKERLE

chapter 10|18 pages

Gender and violence in Maré, Rio de Janeiro: a tale of two cities?

ByPOLLY WILDING, RUTH PEARSON
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