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At the PolGRG Workshop, we presented an in-progress paper entitled 'Practicing Embodied and Bodily Methodologies in Feminist Political Geography'. The abstract is as follows:In seeking to attend to elements and agents which have traditionally been ignored and hidden within political geography, feminist scholars have increasingly turned to embodied and bodily methods as a means of disrupting the disembodied traditions of the discipline. Our own research sits squarely within this ongoing shift, engaging with the key tenets of scale, embodiment, and gender yet applying these to distinct subject matter. Indeed, on the surface, the UK landscape of menstrual justice activism and the more-than-human elements of the Korean Demilitarised Zone appear to have little in common; however, both of our projects similarly find bodies and embodiment at their core as they examine the geopolitical dimensions of these research contexts.
By thinking with our two projects, in this paper we seek to demonstrate the diverse applications of, and engagements with embodiment and bodies in political geography. Reflecting on our research practices and, in particular our employment of creative methods, we highlight the multiple ways of exploring bodies and embodiment, the manifold contexts to which they may be applied, and the alternative insights which they might yield. In doing so, we consider the future directions of political geography scholarship, emphasising the need to incorporate bodies and embodiment in both our methodological and pedagogical practices alongside critical feminist responsibilities to positionality and ethics. In this way, we echo broader disciplinary calls to interrogate who, what, where, and how knowledge is produced and complicating what counts as ‘political’ in political geography.
| Period | 19 Jun 2025 → 20 Jun 2025 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Newcastle, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |