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Feminist research examines the spatialities of money, debt, and finance in women’s everyday lives

Feminist research examines the spatialities of money, debt, and finance in women’s everyday lives

by Araby Smyth I am a feminist economic geographer working as Post-Doctoral Visitor at the City Institute at York University. My latest research is with the SSHRC funded GenUrb project (Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network). Briefly put, GenUrb seeks to produce new knowledge about urban place making that addresses the

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Grassroots women leaders practise community-based disaster management in the Philippines

Grassroots women leaders practise community-based disaster management in the Philippines

What is a disaster? What are the root causes and material manifestations of vulnerability? What is well-being and what efforts do community leaders and civil society engage in as front-line responders to disasters? These are the questions that PhD doctoral candidate, Chaya Go asked in her doctoral dissertation on A Feminist Political Ecology of Disasters

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