Interventions: Bringing the decolonial to political geography

Lindsay Naylor
Michelle Daigle
Margaret Ramirez
Sofia Zaragocin
Mary Gilmartin

Within and outside geography there is a strong interest in the inequities between states and peoples. While work in political geography, particularly in critical and feminist geopolitics, deconstructs discourse and peoples narratives as we seek to understand and represent these inequities, in many cases scholarship remains embedded in western ways of knowing and understanding the world (see: Sharp 2013a,b). Additionally, even as we

The Geopolitics of Birth

Katharine McKinnon

This paper explores the territoriality and politics of birth. Engaging with debates that are largely polarised between discourses of natural versus medical birth, in this paper I take an in depth look at one birth story, and look for a different way to think through how women's birth experiences might be understood. Written at the beginning of a year of research into women's birth experiences this paper represents my early thinking in the study.