Mona Livholts

Exploring the Gendering of Space by Using Memory Work as a Reflexive Research Method

How can memory work be used as a pathway to reflect on the situatedness of the researcher and field of inquiry? The key aim of this article is to contribute to knowledge about the gendering of space developed by feminist geographers by using memory work as a reflexive research method. The authors present a brief review of feminist literature that covers the local and global symbolic meanings of spaces and the power relations within which space is experienced. From the literature they interpret themes of the interconnections between space, place, and time; sexualization of public space; and the bodily praxis of using space. Memories of gendered bodies and landscapes, movement and restricted space, and the disrupting of space allow the exploration of conceptualizations within the literature as active, situated, fragmented, and contextualized.

To theorise in a more passionate way. Carol Lee Bacchi's Diary of Mothering and Contemporary Post/Academic Writing Strategies

This article seeks to explore feminist theorising on mothering by discussing the complexity related to movement between different forms of textual representations/’genre’; that is, what is often referred to as academic and not academic writing. In the article, Carol Lee Bacchi, previously Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, is invited to reflect upon the process of writing the book Fear of food – a diary of mothering. By introducing the term post/academic writing as a contemporary condition of multiple and shifting movements of interdisciplinary writing, feminist theorising, in the case of Bacchi, is analysed as a movement characterised by resistance, reflexivity and passion.

Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods

Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use, which at times reconfigure and gender social spaces. In this article we present a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry based on our own telephone lives. We introduce a reflexive visual and textual methodological design, specifically diary notes, memory work, and photography, developed from our lives as researcher and researched. We examine an important theme in our findings, the physical placement of the telephone and the phone holders awareness of the physicality of the telephone, which illustrates the importance of our methodological choices. We show how the placement of the phone by the users both genders space and creates emotional spaces.

The Professor's Chair. An untimely academic novella

One sits with power; one does not lie down with power. This reflexive article constructs academic textuality beyond the author, and elaborates possible forms of the symbolic, visual and sensory in research, via a novella set in a university.

Writing Masculinities, Gender and the Politics of Change: A Publicly Staged Interview with Raewyn Connell

Writing Masculinities, Gender and the Politics of Change: A Publicly Staged Interview with Raewyn Connell

Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied

Editorial : Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied