Gender, race and bodies Flashcards
Intervention from political geography on bodies
They carry different forms of privilege and power. It is a micro-scale where larger scale power operations can be observed
Mountz (2018)
One of the core tasks of LG is to critique the abstraction of law from its wider contexts.
Bodies traditionally seen as material truth so the law can govern and restrict - but it is also discursively produced in a two way-relation
Testimony, evidence and property
Jeffrey (2020)
Seminal text tracking the discursive production of different bodies in law
C19 technoscientific turn saw an intellectual separation between body/spirit
Wider legal genealogy of changing systems producing different bodily imaginations (machine, property, inviolable, sacred)
Hyde (1997)
Victorian Present. Shift to ring-wing politics in Trump era, but also the gender politics of the present are rooted in the past
Moore (2018)
State polices particular bodies. A whole special issue in Women and Criminal Justice
Chesney-Lind (2017)
Comparison of abortion in Bangladesh vs USA, showing the global impact of the national American Global Gag Rule.
Foreign NGOs receiving US funding cannot promote any abortion-related activities
Abortion occurs anyway and is actually more likely in developing countries
Temporal element: even when GGR is rescinded, the knock-on effects are long-term
Politics in one country fostering an international climate that has repercussions for female bodies
Chesney-Lind & Hadi (2017)
Case study of the juvenile justice system which has a long-term history of policing and punishing ‘immoral’ behaviour of young girls.
Paternalistic ideology remains - girls are both criminals and in need of intervention
Valid Court Orders - example of spatial tactic restricting movement that reproduces discursive ideas of unruly female and racialised bodies
Imprisonment - another spatial tactic that takes away individuality eg standardised haircuts and minimal exposure
Girls resist eg menstruation protests
Legal systems spatially control and discursively regulate girls’ bodies, working across scale from national justice system down to individual bodies
Pasko (2017)
