Gender, Identity and Citizenship
Feminist geographers explore the relationships between gender, space, and place, and the distinct ways that women and men shape spaces and experience places. Feminist geography asks how various aspects of identity, such as gender, class, race, and sexual orientation, intersect and are re-made across the landscape. Geographers at SU study gendered spaces of everyday life as sites of oppression and resistance where identities are made and re-made across the landscape. They examine the gendering of geopolitical relationships that structure human migration, labor practices in the global economy, gender and the city, memory, social justice, historical geography, feminist methodologies, and other critical standpoints from which to study men's and women's places in the world. Central to each of these themes is a re-working of the concept of citizenship.
Graduate student projects in the field of feminist geography at SU examine the relationship between national security and bodily security for North Korean migrants in China, the gendered dynamics of the high tech industry's labor force in India, art and the subversion of urban spaces of London, and the spatial politics of discrimination in thin, anti-obese space.
Faculty
Anne Mosher (Historical geography, urban geography, social geography, United States)
Alison Mountz (Social geographies of transnational migration; cultural geographies of power, the nation-state, and the border; feminist and urban geography; research methodologies)
Farhana Sultana (gender and development, gender and environment, gender and globalization, South Asia)
Jamie Winders (Race/ethnicity, gender, migration, social theory, US South, urban and historical geography, research methods)
Related Courses
In addition to courses offered by the Women's Studies Program and other departments in the social sciences and humanities at SU, the Department of Geography offers the following classes in this area:
Undergraduate
GEO 171 Human Geographies
GEO 300 Gendered Geographies of Globalization and Development
GEO 367 Gender in a Globalizing World
Graduate/Undergraduate
GEO 500 Borders in Syracuse
GEO 500 Sexuality and Space
GEO 576/WGS 576: Gender, Place and Space
Graduate
GEO 764/ANT 764/WGS 764: Gender and Globalization
GEO 876/WGS 876: Feminist Geography
Research Design
Seminar in Political Ecology