Especial

Volume on

Feminist Geography

 

Call for applications

In 2026, Espacio y Desarrollo will publish a special edition on Feminist Geography, opening space for debate in geography and related fields of research concerned with gender. This issue aims to highlight the significance of feminism and women’s studies as both praxis and intellectual traditions for understanding space, place, and scale.

We welcome contributions that address global, transnational, regional, national, and subnational feminist understandings of territories; the socio-environmental dynamics of genders and sexualities; and geo-historical as well as contemporary studies of gendered experience.

We invite contributions on topics including (but not limited to):

  • Gendered ways of producing and sharing knowledge
  • Feminist perspectives on geographical questions and methodologies
  • Geography’s role in shaping and contributing to gender studies and feminist scholarship
  • Geographical implications of gender differentiation and power relations in society
  • Intersectional feminist analyses that examine how inequalities -shaped by race, ethnicity, age, [dis]ability, sexuality, class, colonialism, capitalism, and other social identities and structures- are co-constituted

We encourage submissions from diverse empirical contexts and at multiple scales. In particular, we aim to foster global connections and feminist solidarities, which remain essential for expanding feminist geography. We hope this special issue will inspire debate, as well as intercultural and transnational alliances.

For those interested in submitting a paper, please submit your document via:

revista-espacio-y-desarrollo@pucp.pe

by March 20, 2026. Manuscripts received will follow the same editorial process as those submitted normally: admission by the journal, double-blind peer review, and, if positive, acceptance by the journal. The formalities are outlined in the following link: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/espacioydesarrollo/normaeditorial

 

Feminist geography

Feminist geography emerged in North America and the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, in close dialogue with social movements both within and beyond the academy. Within the discipline, feminist critiques arose as part of the broader narrative of “new” radical geographies, and were strongly influenced by the women’s liberation movement, which demanded accountability, visibility, and equality in knowledge production (Gregory 2009). Over time, the term feminist within geography has come to signify diverse approaches, but with common emphasis on embodiment, emotion, and spaces of intimacy as integral to geographic research (Oxford 2025). By the late twentieth century, feminist geographers had profoundly reshaped a male-dominated, Eurocentric discipline, revolutionizing how space and place were studied and expanding the ways geography could be “done” (Remoquillo 2021).

Crucially, feminist geography goes beyond simply applying a feminist lens to existing geographic frameworks; it is rooted in participatory and inclusive methodologies, as well as in commitments to social and environmental justice. It underscores how research can illuminate the ways communities are negatively impacted by oppressive political, economic, and cultural forces, while also examining how such regimes of power are negotiated in everyday life (Oxford 2025). Scholars in this tradition highlight that gender, race, and class are not inherent categories but are socially and legally constructed, persisting through contemporary interactions and institutions (Remoquillo 2021). Their work demonstrates how spaces become places through lived experience, associations, and meaning making, underscoring that both place and gender are deeply relational and historically produced (Remoquillo 2021). Contemporary feminist geography continues to respond to globalization and neoliberal discourses, revealing how transnational and translocal processes are profoundly gendered and embedded in shifting systems of power (Nelson & Seager 2008).

 

Feminist geography in the Global South

 

In the case of feminist geography in the Global South, it has been crucial to rethink the narratives that sustain knowledge production (Hernández et al. 2020). In Latin America, characterized by mestizo territories and multiple Indigenous territorialities, the development of feminist geography entails a deconstruction of both territory and knowledge. This has fostered a close connection between feminist, critical, and decolonial geographies (Zaragocin et al. 2019), opening a broad field for reflection on the intersections between feminist and decolonial debates (Lenzi & Romão 2020). These reflections interrogate the coloniality of knowledge and the power–knowledge relations that underlie it, as well as their interactions with gender, race, and sexuality (Lenzi & Romão 2020). Moreover, the recognition that female identity is multiple transforms methodological approaches, by making visible the plurality of women’s experiences and demands and by generating more situated analytical categories (Lenzi & Romão 2020).

Within this framework, feminist methodologies are conceived as inclusive, non-androcentric, insofar as they seek to render visible what has been silenced and to analyze power asymmetries across gender, class, and race/ethnicity from the perspective of historically oppressed groups (Lan & Rocha 2020). Nevertheless, this field has had to consolidate itself in the face of an academic androcentrism deeply rooted and sustained by patriarchy (Zaragocin et al. 2019). Thus, feminist perspectives challenge not only research objects but also dominant epistemologies, problematizing universalized categories such as man, woman, space, or the West, as well as the alleged neutrality of science and the positionality of researchers themselves (Lenzi & Romão 2020).

This special edition seeks papers that weave together these conversations.

Referencias/ References:

  • Gregory, D. 2009. The dictionary of human geography(5th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. https://search.credoreference.com/content/title/bkhumgeo. Accessed 22 Sept. 2025.
  • Hernández, D. T. C., Lozano, A. D., & Jurado, G. E. R. 2020. Recorridos de la construcción de la geografía feminista del sur global. Geopauta, 4(4), 7-17.
  • Lan, D. G., & Rocha, H. L. 2020. Metodologías feministas para el mapeo de geografías oprimidas en Argentina.
  • Lenzi, M. H., & Romão Nogueira, A. M. 2020. Anotaciones sobre la construcción del campo de las geografías feministas latinoamericanas: interacciones posibles entre pensamiento decolonial, geografías feministas y geografía de las relaciones raciales en Brasil. Espacios, género y sexualidades, reflexiones feministas sobre las diferencias espaciales, 63-81.
  • Nelson, L., & Seager, J. (Eds.). 2008. A companion to feminist geography. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Oxford University Press. 2025. Feminist Geography. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0123.xml . Accessed 22 Sept. 2025.
  • Remoquillo, A. T. 2021. Putting women in place: feminist geographers make sense of the world: by Mona Domosh and Joni Seager, New York and London, The Guilford Press, 2001, 215 pp. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1743025. Accessed 22 Sept. 2025.
  • Zaragocin, S., Jiménez, B., & Torres, N. 2019. Geografía feminista descolonial desde la colectividad. M. Bayon Jiménez y N. Torres (Coords), Geografía crítica para detener el despojo de los territorios. Teorías, experiencias y casos de trabajo en Ecuador, 49-58.