“Can You Write a Memo on Why We Have to do Gender, Please?” An Experiential Account of Teaching Gender Geography in the Netherlands
2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03098260902742409
ISSN1466-1845
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
ResumoAbstract This article discusses attempts to revive gender in the context of the geography curriculum at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The reluctance of Dutch geography/-ers to embrace gender geography is related to the way in which the discipline has been understood and practised in the past and by whom as well as to the neglect of gender issues at the societal level. Both trajectories may account for a lack of awareness by students and staff of the relevance of gender to Dutch geography. Keywords: Netherlandsteachingexperientialgendercultural geography Notes 1 The Faculty of Spatial Sciences is composed of the following Departments: Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, Environment and Infrastructure Planning, Population Studies and the Centre for Development Studies. 2 ATHENA is a Socrates Thematic Network Project in which 80 Women's and Gender Studies Programmes at universities, research institutes and documentation centres in Europe participate. ATHENA was founded in 1996 by the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE), and was selected as a Socrates Thematic Network Project in September 1998. The ATHENA central coordination is located at Utrecht University, the Netherlands (see http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/athena/). 3 Reproductive health programme 1998 (Inge Hutter). 4 Preceding her were Joyce P. Jacobsen (Economics, Wesleyan University, USA: 2001–2002) and Nancy Fraser (Politics and Philosophy, New School for Social Research in New York, USA: 2002–2003). The most recent 'gender professors' were Londa Schiebinger (History, Stanford University, USA 2005) and Jill Becker (Psychology , University of Michigan, USA 2006). 5 In addition to Janet Momsen (development), international guests were Isabel Dyck (health), Diane Perrons (labour market), Clara Greed (planning), Gill Valentine (Sexualities) and Kathrin Hörschelmann (Culture and Media). 6 Similar critiques were voiced by Shepherd et al. (2000 Shepherd, I. D. H., Monk, J. J. and Fortuijn, J. D. 2000. Internationalising geography in higher education: towards a conceptual framework. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 24(2): 285–298. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). 7 It must be emphasized that the Faculty of Spatial Sciences in Groningen has attracted an admirable number of young staff many of whom work part time due to combining work with parenthood. 8 At the time of writing, more elective modules were offered on strongly economic and environmental planning issues making a social geographical theme such as gender more interesting to the wider student population without a specialization in the above topics.
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