Outline:
Part I: Gender, embodiment, space
Part II: Feedback on assignments
Part III: Next week's task
Part I: Gender, embodiment, space
Part II: Feedback on assignments
Part III: Next week's task
What is gender?
What does it mean to say something is gendered?
How does gender relate to space and power?
Give me 5
What does it mean to say something is gendered?
How does gender relate to space and power?
Give me 5
How about our reading:
What is the author trying to say?
How do they say or show it?
What does it say about space and power?
What is the author trying to say?
How do they say or show it?
What does it say about space and power?
What do I do with this?
Taking it into the field:
Thinking about….
Embodiment
“Bodies are not just the subjects of medical and natural sciences: bodies shape who we are and are always connected in some ways to the world we live in. Not all bodies are equally valued or treated equally: some bodies are valued more than others.”
Woodward, Kath. "Gendered bodies: Gendered lives." Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies (2015): 97-113.
What kinds of body differences are at play in space, in landscape?
When and where are different bodies in/out of place?
Emotions and affect:
“By taking seriously women’s experiences of space and place, and treating the personal as political, feminist geographers were alert not only to the emotions and feelings that women experienced in particular places and spaces, but also to how emotions framed and circumscribed sexed and gendered experiences of place and spaces. Feminist accounts of subjectivity, to be sure, were now diverging from humanist accounts. Where humanistic [accounts] tended to posit a coherent, bounded, self‐aware and universal human subject, feminist geography was illuminating the incoherences, permeabilities, opaquenesses and specificities of human subjectivity.”
Pile, S. "Emotions and affect in recent human geography." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, no. 1 (2010): 5-20.
What do we call this?
Embodiment and space, place
Seetha Low:
Embodied spaces.
“Embodied space is presented as a model for understanding the creation of place through spatial orientation, movement, and language.”
“These understandings require theories of body and space that are experience-near and yet allow for linkages to be made to larger, social, and cultural processes.[..] underscoring the importance of the body as a physical and biological entity, lived experience, and a center of agency, a location for speaking and acting on the world.” (pp. 9-10)
Low, Setha M. "Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture." Space and culture 6, no. 1 (2003): 9-18.
Taking it into the field:
Thinking about….
Embodiment
“Bodies are not just the subjects of medical and natural sciences: bodies shape who we are and are always connected in some ways to the world we live in. Not all bodies are equally valued or treated equally: some bodies are valued more than others.”
Woodward, Kath. "Gendered bodies: Gendered lives." Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies (2015): 97-113.
What kinds of body differences are at play in space, in landscape?
- Gender
- Race
- Dis/Ability
- Age
- Class
When and where are different bodies in/out of place?
Emotions and affect:
“By taking seriously women’s experiences of space and place, and treating the personal as political, feminist geographers were alert not only to the emotions and feelings that women experienced in particular places and spaces, but also to how emotions framed and circumscribed sexed and gendered experiences of place and spaces. Feminist accounts of subjectivity, to be sure, were now diverging from humanist accounts. Where humanistic [accounts] tended to posit a coherent, bounded, self‐aware and universal human subject, feminist geography was illuminating the incoherences, permeabilities, opaquenesses and specificities of human subjectivity.”
Pile, S. "Emotions and affect in recent human geography." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, no. 1 (2010): 5-20.
What do we call this?
Embodiment and space, place
Seetha Low:
Embodied spaces.
“Embodied space is presented as a model for understanding the creation of place through spatial orientation, movement, and language.”
“These understandings require theories of body and space that are experience-near and yet allow for linkages to be made to larger, social, and cultural processes.[..] underscoring the importance of the body as a physical and biological entity, lived experience, and a center of agency, a location for speaking and acting on the world.” (pp. 9-10)
Low, Setha M. "Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture." Space and culture 6, no. 1 (2003): 9-18.
PART II
Feedback from written assignments
Main strengths:
Main area for improvement:
Feedback from written assignments
Main strengths:
- Observation
- Detail
- Depth
Main area for improvement:
- Argument--what are you trying to say? Your overall point/s that you will support in your answer
- Engagement with readings/ academic work
- Referencing
- Voice
QUIZ:
Which of the following is correct:
Which of the following is correct:
A
B
C
D
E
QUIZ:
Which of the following is correct:
Which of the following is correct:
PART III
Next week
We have a field visit.
It is an assessment task. 20%
The best way is to select a site that we can all access easily from the class.
And undertake a gendered reading of space from today’s class.
I will send instructions today.
However, where is the place?
Where is the site?
Anywhere on campus?
Next week
We have a field visit.
It is an assessment task. 20%
The best way is to select a site that we can all access easily from the class.
And undertake a gendered reading of space from today’s class.
I will send instructions today.
However, where is the place?
Where is the site?
Anywhere on campus?
