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Historical geography, (auto)biography and intersectional privilege
Topics: Historical Geography
, Cultural Geography
, Feminist Geographies
Keywords: historical geography, intersectionality, privilege, critical phenomenology, whiteness, masculinity Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Monday Session Start / End Time: 2/28/2022 11:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/28/2022 12:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 1
Authors:
Matthew G- Hannah, University of Bayreuth
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Abstract
In an era of intensifying socio-cultural, political, economic and environmental "acceleration" (Hartmut Rosa), the timescales of "historical" change can be mapped ever more directly onto those of individual biographies. Thus critical historical geography can make increasing use of methods such as autoethnography and critical phenomenology, which allow us to explore properly "historical"-geographic change as expressed in changing relations between individual lifeworlds and their socio-cultural environments. This paper draws upon the critical phenomenology of Iris Marion Young and Sara Ahmed to reflect upon the intersectional privilege shaping the author's own subject-formation as an expression of specific historical-geographic conditions. This privilege can be characterized in terms of a "double appropriation" of space, a "hyper-extension" of reach, and "spatial forgiveness". The paper closes with some thoughts on the extent to which historical-geographic conditions have changed enough in the 21st century to alter such privilege in significant ways.
Historical geography, (auto)biography and intersectional privilege