Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking. (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: MacLeavy, Julie; Fannin, Maria; Larner, Wendy
• Is Part Of: Progress in human geography. Volume 45:Number 6(2021)
• Page Start: 1558
• Page End: 1579
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: feminism -- feminist geography -- futurity -- gender -- politics -- temporality; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1177/03091325211003327
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-1325

Abstract

This article is designed to stimulate debate over the possibilities for thinking feminist futures. It argues for moving away from a linear understanding of feminism which assumes that past feminism produces present and future feminism as a response to its previous waves. Instead, we argue for embracing the multiplicity and simultaneity of contemporary feminisms, taking inspiration from Elizabeth Grosz's writings on futurity and Cindi Katz's work on resistance, resilience and reworking. Drawing on Katz's framing, we review three analytically distinct ways of conceptualising feminist politics and consider how feminist geographers are asking new questions of familiar domains, as well as finding gender formations and political possibilities in unexpected empirical sites. In doing so, we point to the contemporary relevance of feminist scholarship and politics, and affirm feminism's ongoing importance.