Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research

by Bondi, Liz,; Avis, Hannah; Bankey, Ruth; Bingley, Amanda; Bondi, Liz; Davidson, Joyce; Duffy, Rosaleen; Einagel, Victoria Ingrid; Green, Anja-Maaike; Johnston, Lynda; Lilley, Susan; Listerborn, Carina; McEwan, Shonagh; Marshy, Mona; O'Connor, Niamh; Rose,

• ISBN13: 9780742515628
• ISBN10: 0742515621
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of humans as subjects. This collaboration by a group of feminist researchers looks at subjectivity in relation to researchers, the researched, and audiences, as well as at the connections between subjectivity and knowledge. The authors argue that subjectivity is spatialized in embodied, multiple, and fractured ways, challenging the dominant notions of the rational, bounded subject. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(14)
Liz Bondi
Part I Embodiment, Emotions, and Subjectivities
All in the Mind?: Women, Agoraphobia, and the Subject of Self-Help	15	(19)
Joyce Davidson
Understanding the Geography of Women's Fear: Toward a Reconceptualization of Fear and Space	34	(10)
Carina Listerborn
Embodying Agoraphobia: Rethinking Geographies of Women's Fear	44	(13)
Ruth Bankey
``Once More with Feeling'': Putting Emotion into Geographies of Music	57	(18)
Nichola Wood
Part II Dualisms, Bodies, and Subjectivities
Borderline Bodies	75	(15)
Lynda Johnston
Crossing Boundaries: Gendered Spaces and Bodies in Golf	90	(16)
Shonagh McEwan
Talking with the Magician's Apprentice: Fleshing Out GIS Users	106	(17)
Susan Lilley
Part III Knowledges and Subjectivities
Performing Art and Identities: Artists of Palestinian Origin in Canada	123	(17)
Mona Marshy
Tasteful Visions: The Cultivation of ``an'' Audience for Art	140	(18)
Anja-Maaike Green
``Dependency'': New Labour Welfare Reform Policy and the Production of the Passive, Dependent Benefit Claimant	158	(14)
Niamh O'Connor
Hot Gossip: Rumor as Politics	172	(19)
Rosaleen Duffy
Part IV Intersubjectivities in Research Practice
Whose Voice Is That? Making Space for Subjectivities in Interviews	191	(17)
Hannah Avis
Research Ethics in Practice	208	(15)
Amanda Bingley
Telling Stories, Making Selves	223	(13)
Victoria Ingrid Einagel
Situated Ethics and Feminist Ethnography in a West of Scotland Hospice	236	(17)
Bella Vivat
Conclusion	253	(6)
Gillian Rose
References	259	(24)
Index	283	(12)
About the Authors	295