Sequined Styles, Intersectional Moves: Economic Geography, Let’s Dress Up!

IF 7.2 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Geography Pub Date : 2022-03-21 DOI:10.1080/00130095.2022.2030215

Caroline V. Faria, Dominica Whitesell, Kasfah Birungi, Annie Elledge, Jovah Katushabe, Catherine Kyotowadde

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Abstract

abstract In this article, we build on the vital insights of feminist thought in economic geography, extending this body of work via a global Black feminist geographic lens. To do so, we center two moments of the Ugandan bridal industry: the international trade of imported dresses and their design and refashioning there. Via the journeys of these dresses, we make visible how connected racial-gendered and classed power relations structure, drive, and manifest global trade networks. We provide geographically contextualized accounts of the gendered-racialization of economies, while always tracing the ties between varied forms of that racialization across place and through history. And we demonstrate the agency and crucial economic worldmaking of African women who labor within and fashion economic geographies. More broadly, we use dress, and the act of dressing up, in two ways. First, via a global Black feminist lens, we show how dress can be a deeply instructive material object that tells us much about the geographies of economies. Second, we use dress as a metaphor for urgent and playful connection, helping us to refashion the subfield of economic geography as feminist, antiracist, and critically transformative.

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亮片风格，交叉动作:经济地理，让我们盛装打扮!

在本文中，我们以女权主义思想在经济地理学中的重要见解为基础，通过全球黑人女权主义地理学视角扩展这一工作体系。为此，我们以乌干达新娘业的两个时刻为中心:进口礼服的国际贸易及其在乌干达的设计和改造。通过这些服装的旅程，我们可以看到种族性别和阶级权力关系是如何构建、驱动和体现全球贸易网络的。我们提供经济性别种族化的地理背景描述，同时始终追踪不同形式的种族化在地方和历史上的联系。我们展示了非洲妇女在经济地理上的作用和重要的经济世界建设。更广泛地说，我们用dress和dressing up这个词有两种用法。首先，通过全球黑人女权主义的视角，我们展示了服装是如何成为一种极具启发性的物质对象，它能告诉我们很多关于经济地域的信息。其次，我们用着装作为一种紧急而有趣的联系的隐喻，帮助我们将经济地理学的子领域重塑为女权主义者、反种族主义者和批判性变革者。

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Economic Geography Multiple-

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9.70

自引率

2.90%

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期刊介绍： Economic Geography is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing original research that advances the field of economic geography. Their goal is to publish high-quality studies that are both theoretically robust and grounded in empirical evidence, contributing to our understanding of the geographic factors and consequences of economic processes. It welcome submissions on a wide range of topics that provide primary evidence for significant theoretical interventions, offering key insights into important economic, social, development, and environmental issues. To ensure the highest quality publications, all submissions undergo a rigorous peer-review process with at least three external referees and an editor. Economic Geography has been owned by Clark University since 1925 and plays a central role in supporting the global activities of the field, providing publications and other forms of scholarly support. The journal is published five times a year in January, March, June, August, and November.