Resistance Flashcards
An intervention into theories of resistance
Hughes (2020)
The Western, masculinist nature of Geography as a discipline.
Kinkaid et al (2021)
Links to reorienting LG scholarship towards reproductive justice (Ross & Sollinger, 2017) and the general neglect of abortion as a site of geographical inquiry (Calkin, 2019)
Nell Racker: a community ‘wisewoman’ who provided abortions at home.
Using her image as a faith-healer and fortune-teller as a cover for her illegal service.
Broader changing narrative of healthcare change reproduces certain ideas about reproductive bodies and rights through determining where medical procedures occur
The private home as a site of resistance and empowerment
Moore (2013)
Critique of the whiteness of Women’s Marches
53% of white women voted for Trump vs over 90% of African American women voting for Clinton
Whose bodies are represented in resistance?
Rose-Redwood & Rose-Redwood (2017)
Mobile crisis pregnancy centres: at least 170 in the USA, but their ‘unruly mobility’ makes them very hard to study.
AA that mobility should not be glorified for its wholly emancipatory potential but is in fact a terrain of struggle since anti-abortion activists utilise many of the same spatial tactics.
Thomsen et al (2022)
Tracking the development of ‘Safe Zones’ outside of abortion providers, which was voted through in March 2023 but has not yet been implemented due to a public consulation over concerns that such legislation would impinge on the European Convention on Human Rights.
Building on previous activist work in Ealing which had successfully applied for a PSPO around an abortion provider.
* The conflict of different scales in law leading to delay whilst lived experiences on the ground continue
* Using law as a spatial tactic to resist
Marie Stopes International Reproductive Choices (2024); Morton (2023)
Women on Waves as a form of activist art which did not only symbolically promote change through visual culture but used maritime law to ephemerally bring the desired space into being.
Even though unsuccessful in Ireland and Portugal, the project was always meant as a form of media politics and genuine service.
Lambert-Beatty (2008)
