Winners of the Gender, Place and Culture Annual International Conference Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2022

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In 2007, the editorial team introduced the Gender, Place and Culture Annual Award for new and emerging Scholars with funds supplied by taylor & Francis. the award is targeted at emerging researchers in feminist geographies who are trying to establish research careers and create research momentum. the editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the award winners of this annual award, valued at a maximum of uS$1,500. this year the editors agreed to share the award between two candidates who both were deserving in terms of their financial need and the quality of their intended presentations. they are: Maria Anne Fitzgerald, Doctoral candidate at the Department of Geography, university of Delhi, and Mirjam Sagi, Assistant Research Fellow at the centre for economic and Regional Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. they will both use the award to present papers at the conference uGI-IGu 2022 in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2022. congratulations and best wishes for your continued work in the field of feminist geography! title and abstract of Maria Anne Fitzgerald’s paper: From gender wallah to feminist geographer: Reflections on ‘doing’ Gender and Feminist Geography in India existing literature on gender and feminist geography in India has discussed the growth and concerns of the sub-discipline. the frontlines wherefrom this geographical knowledge is produced may also be traced along the fringes of classrooms, recreational spaces and residential complexes within higher education institutes in India. While these spaces are keenly projected as ‘universitarian’ images, they are meshed with unequal gender and caste relations often inconspicuous within these institutes. these power asymmetries (un)knowingly create hegemonies of knowledge, prejudices and preferences in the system of geographical knowledge production within higher education institutes in India. thus making these spaces acquire a competitive nature rather than collegial practice. taking up space as an emerging scholar