Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India

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Saraswati Raju (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Australia)

Doing Gender, Doing Geography

Emerging Research in India

Saraswati Raju (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Australia)

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Routledge India
31 August 2010

Development studies; Social groups; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology; Social work; Human geography

Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order.

However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual sources and in-depth case studies are being tried out and accepted in geography despite its masculine legacy.

This pioneering study brings together Indian geographers’ contributions to understanding gender, and through them, seeks to enrich the discipline of geography. It engages with the recent ‘spatial turn’ in the social sciences, which has reclaimed the explanatory power of space and place in social theory that had been nearly lost to deconstructive postmodernist scholarship. The volume draws entirely from the Indian scholarship, showcasing contextualised knowledge production, but hopes to initiate a a dialogue with scholars elsewhere working with feminist methodologies.

Edited by: Saraswati Raju (Jawaharlal Nehru University India), Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9780415598026
ISBN 10: 0415598028
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 31 August 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Saraswati Raju is Professor of Social Geography, Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU).