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La conférence à la mémoire de Suzanne Mackenzie : pistes de réflexion sur les questions politiques de la production féministe des connaissances anglo‐américaines en géographie
Author(s) -
Peake Linda J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12174
Subject(s) - honour , precarity , sociology , human geography , knowledge production , critical geography , feminist philosophy , feminism , politics , gender studies , cultural geography , social science , political science , law , knowledge management , computer science
It was Suzanne Mackenzie who first introduced me to the radical potential of a feminist mode of knowledge production in geography. In this paper, in Suzanne's honour, I ask how well feminist work in Anglo‐American geography is faring in terms of still generating new possibilities of knowledge and of existence. In asking this question I explore the work feminist interventions have done, and not done, in advancing possibilities within the discipline. I examine three aspects of feminist work in geography: looking back to (the collective forgetting of) feminist work prior to the 1960s; looking around at (the limitations of) feminist approaches to methodologies and methods; and looking ahead, in this current era characterized by anxiety and precarity, to (the as yet not undertaken) work on addressing these issues in the academy. I conclude by discussing the future of knowledge production in feminist geography.