All geographers should be Feminist Geographers - how we mentor matters by Lindsay Naylor

Although care is a critical component of human life, it has remained on the margins of higher education and theory, heightening unequal relations along gender, race, and class lines.

In All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, Lindsay Naylor argues for a feminist approach in geography that is both world-dismantling and world-making, pushing back against a neoliberal academy. Care in this context is examined through labor, social reproduction, relations of exchange, and affect.

Care is an everyday practice that takes place in public, private, and liminal spaces. Naylor unpacks the promise and challenges of feminisms to address the care-less academy and the longstanding violent and exclusionary character of geography. Her fundamental premise: geography is well placed for this moment as we study and explain difference while “writing the earth”.

This book attends to such matters. While feminist geography has long been a subdiscipline within geography, Lindsay Naylor makes the case that a feminist approach to the academy, and geography specifically, should form the foundation of all the work we do.

In this webinar, part of the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group Seminar Series, Naylor will focus on the care and mentoring of geographers.

About the speaker

Lindsay Naylor (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware in the United States and is the co-facilitator of the Embodiment Lab. She works on the multi-sited ‘geo’ of geopolitics and examines how it is written across space, place, and bodies. She draws from frameworks in feminist geopolitics, decolonial philosophy, and diverse economies to ground action-oriented research.

Dr. Naylor publishes on fair trade among other food and agriculture related topics and she is the author of the award-winning book Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas and All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces. Her current book project is (Dis)Comfort Food: setting the table for justice with co-author Dr. Kelsey Obringer.

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