This study attempts to understand the relational formation of masculine identites and masculine spaces in the construction and production of masculinities by looking at the notion of &ldquo / bachelor&rdquo / and the socio-spatial reflections of &ldquo / bachelorship&rdquo / , a particular case of manliness in Turkish context, in the case of &ldquo / bachelor rooms&rdquo / in S&uuml / leymaniye district in Emin&ouml / n&uuml / , Istanbul from the perspective of feminist geography. Neighborhoods gendered with bachelor rooms situated near the commercial heart of the big cities as a sociological and historical phenomenon in Turkish urban context have been christalized reflections of segregated heterosexual gender structure of the society being these neighborhoods the performative spaces of masculinities for centuries. This study also tries to relate the bachelor rooms with traditional single male migration from rural to urban. These neighborhoods provide space for the performance of different masculinities and they function for young provincial men as a kind of &ldquo / rite of passage&rdquo / for various kinds of social transitions. The knowledge of migration, of masculinities, and of space related to these transitions is accumulated in the homo-social spaces of the district and constantly recirculated through migrant bachelors among the local traditional masculinities. Masculinities of not only the immigrants from rural, but of urban space, including space bounded masculinities specific to the district have been categorized from the perspective of hegemonic masculinity concept and concluded that the construction of hegemonic type of masculinity with contestations and discourses through performances, representations and the power relations influences the transformation of space and are influenced by these spaces of masculinities.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 96 p. Includes bibliographical references.

The figure of the human body and notions of its sustenance, wellbeing and need for change are central, if often latent, within discussions of contemporary eco-social 'crises'. This dissertation considers cycling practices in Los Angeles as a 'case' to ask how conceptions of human bodies - the intertwined ideas and materials that constitute them - need reconsidering. Cycling, particularly when replacing car journeys, is increasingly promoted as a solution for some of these 'crises': Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, traffic congestion and alleviating health concerns associated with sedentary lifestyles and mental health. Much cycling advocacy and research is focused on improving the cycling experience and enhancing rates of cycling in cities, yet rests on dominant ontological presumptions around human bodies, their categories of identity and their normativity - both what is considered 'normal' as well as aspirations of 'good' in terms of health and sustainability. In this dissertation, I work through a methodology of 'riding theory' by bringing together (material) feminist, queer and critical race theories with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork on cycling practices, focusing mainly on Los Angeles, California. Rather than building on automatic assumptions of cycling as a 'solution', I ask in what ways cycling practices manifest through relations of power. This rests on an ontology of 'flesh' and 'enfleshment' - indebted to the work of corporeal and black feminist theorists - whereby cycling is understood not as modulated by relations of power, but becoming-as and through these relations in highly uneven ways. Through cycling in Los Angeles, intertwined techniques of power are discussed as: categorization (the naming and reproduction of identities and bodily difference); configuration of matter and meanings through spacetime (the configuration and affordances of cycling lungs, exposures, taking up spacetimes, speeds and locomotion) and valuation (the enrolment of cycling subjectivities and energies within the reproduction and circulation of value). As opposed to cycling futures reconfigured to fulfil alternative criteria of valuation, I consider what a cycling ethic of response-ability might do: An ethic that arises from the ontologies of enfleshment and that requires a working-with the affordances of cycling. Thinking through these ontologies and/as ethics, I argue, forces emergent reconsideration of how cycling subjectivities and responsibilities, justice, health and sustainability are understood.

Essa pesquisa trata das múltiplas relações de poder entre corpo e espaço, em diferentes escalas, envolvidas na prática de interrupção voluntária da gravidez. A criminalização do aborto provocado não impede que milhares de procedimentos clandestinos sejam realizados anualmente no Brasil. A ilegalidade contribui para a insegurança da prática, constituindo um problema de saúde pública porque coloca em risco a vida das mulheres. Contra essa situação, movimentos feministas vêm lutando pelo aborto legal e seguro em nome da saúde, dos direitos sexuais e (não) reprodutivos e da autonomia corporal das mulheres. Nesse contexto, o estudo buscou compreender como as práticas de aborto provocado envolvem múltiplas escalas territoriais de poder e resistência, procurando responder três questões centrais: No que consiste a prática de aborto provocado? Como as relações entre corpo e espaço podem ser evidenciadas a partir de uma perspectiva escalar dessa prática? E, nesse sentido, como o corpo pode constituir uma escala de resistência? Para dar conta da proposta, o referencial teórico-metodológico apoiou-se, sobretudo, nas correntes feministas da Geografia que entendem que o espaço não é neutro do ponto de vista das relações hierárquicas de gênero e em abordagens territoriais multiescalares. ( Continua) As estratégias de investigação incluíram coleta de dados realizada por meio de uma ampla pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, além de nove entrevistas semi-estruturadas, com mulheres brasileiras, entre 24 e 38 anos de idade, que tiveram pelo menos uma experiência de aborto clandestino. O tratamento dos dados consistiu na transcrição das entrevistas, categorização e análise de conteúdo. O estudo mostrou que a prática de aborto provocado consiste em um tema complexo, que envolve aspectos jurídicos, médicos, religiosos, econômicos e emocionais. Além disso, com a restrição do aborto seguro, feito em ambiente hospitalar, a apenas três situações previstas em lei (estupro, risco de vida para a mulher e anencefalia do feto), as mulheres acabam recorrendo às clínicas clandestinas ou ainda ao aborto caseiro, provocado com medicamentos adquiridos no mercado ilegal. Assim, as práticas clandestinas e as lutas pela descriminalização do aborto analisadas ao longo do estudo são exemplos de resistência e subversão às normas estabelecidas, reforçando a afirmação de que o corpo pode constituir espaços de resistência. / This research deals with the multiple relations of power between body and space, at different scales, involving the practice of voluntary termination of pregnancy. The criminalization of induced abortion does not prevent thousands of clandestine procedures from being performed annually in Brazil. Illegality contributes to insecurity in the practice and constitutes a public health problem. Against this situation, feminist movements have been fighting for legal and safe abortion in the name of the health, the sexual and (non) reproductive rights and the women's bodily autonomy. In this context, the study looked at how abortion practices involve multiple territorial scales of power and resistance, trying to answer three main questions: What is the practice of induced abortion? How can the relations between body and space be evidenced from a scalar perspective of this practice? And, in that sense, how can the body constitute a scale of resistance? In order to achieve this proposition, the theoretical-methodological reference was based, above all, on the feminist currents of Geography, which understand that space is not neutral from the point of view of hierarchical gender relations, and in multi scalar territorial approaches Research strategies included data collection carried out through an extensive bibliographical and documentary research, in addition to semi-structured interviews with nine Brazilian women, between 24 and 38 years of age, who has, at least, one experience of clandestine abortion. Data processing consisted in transcription of the interviews, categorization and content analysis. The study showed that the practice of induced abortion consists of a complex matter that involves legal, medical, religious, economic and emotional aspects. In addition, with the safe abortion (made in a hospital environment) legal restrictions to only three situations (rape, risks to the woman’s life and anencephaly), women resort to clandestine clinics and/or to drugs purchased in the illegal market. Thus, both clandestine practices and struggles for the decriminalization of abortion analyzed throughout the study are examples of resistance and subversion to established norms, reinforcing our statement that the body can constitute spaces of resistance.

Essa pesquisa trata das múltiplas relações de poder entre corpo e espaço, em diferentes escalas, envolvidas na prática de interrupção voluntária da gravidez. A criminalização do aborto provocado não impede que milhares de procedimentos clandestinos sejam realizados anualmente no Brasil. A ilegalidade contribui para a insegurança da prática, constituindo um problema de saúde pública porque coloca em risco a vida das mulheres. Contra essa situação, movimentos feministas vêm lutando pelo aborto legal e seguro em nome da saúde, dos direitos sexuais e (não) reprodutivos e da autonomia corporal das mulheres. Nesse contexto, o estudo buscou compreender como as práticas de aborto provocado envolvem múltiplas escalas territoriais de poder e resistência, procurando responder três questões centrais: No que consiste a prática de aborto provocado? Como as relações entre corpo e espaço podem ser evidenciadas a partir de uma perspectiva escalar dessa prática? E, nesse sentido, como o corpo pode constituir uma escala de resistência? Para dar conta da proposta, o referencial teórico-metodológico apoiou-se, sobretudo, nas correntes feministas da Geografia que entendem que o espaço não é neutro do ponto de vista das relações hierárquicas de gênero e em abordagens territoriais multiescalares. ( Continua) As estratégias de investigação incluíram coleta de dados realizada por meio de uma ampla pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, além de nove entrevistas semi-estruturadas, com mulheres brasileiras, entre 24 e 38 anos de idade, que tiveram pelo menos uma experiência de aborto clandestino. O tratamento dos dados consistiu na transcrição das entrevistas, categorização e análise de conteúdo. O estudo mostrou que a prática de aborto provocado consiste em um tema complexo, que envolve aspectos jurídicos, médicos, religiosos, econômicos e emocionais. Além disso, com a restrição do aborto seguro, feito em ambiente hospitalar, a apenas três situações previstas em lei (estupro, risco de vida para a mulher e anencefalia do feto), as mulheres acabam recorrendo às clínicas clandestinas ou ainda ao aborto caseiro, provocado com medicamentos adquiridos no mercado ilegal. Assim, as práticas clandestinas e as lutas pela descriminalização do aborto analisadas ao longo do estudo são exemplos de resistência e subversão às normas estabelecidas, reforçando a afirmação de que o corpo pode constituir espaços de resistência. / This research deals with the multiple relations of power between body and space, at different scales, involving the practice of voluntary termination of pregnancy. The criminalization of induced abortion does not prevent thousands of clandestine procedures from being performed annually in Brazil. Illegality contributes to insecurity in the practice and constitutes a public health problem. Against this situation, feminist movements have been fighting for legal and safe abortion in the name of the health, the sexual and (non) reproductive rights and the women's bodily autonomy. In this context, the study looked at how abortion practices involve multiple territorial scales of power and resistance, trying to answer three main questions: What is the practice of induced abortion? How can the relations between body and space be evidenced from a scalar perspective of this practice? And, in that sense, how can the body constitute a scale of resistance? In order to achieve this proposition, the theoretical-methodological reference was based, above all, on the feminist currents of Geography, which understand that space is not neutral from the point of view of hierarchical gender relations, and in multi scalar territorial approaches Research strategies included data collection carried out through an extensive bibliographical and documentary research, in addition to semi-structured interviews with nine Brazilian women, between 24 and 38 years of age, who has, at least, one experience of clandestine abortion. Data processing consisted in transcription of the interviews, categorization and content analysis. The study showed that the practice of induced abortion consists of a complex matter that involves legal, medical, religious, economic and emotional aspects. In addition, with the safe abortion (made in a hospital environment) legal restrictions to only three situations (rape, risks to the woman’s life and anencephaly), women resort to clandestine clinics and/or to drugs purchased in the illegal market. Thus, both clandestine practices and struggles for the decriminalization of abortion analyzed throughout the study are examples of resistance and subversion to established norms, reinforcing our statement that the body can constitute spaces of resistance.

Feminist geographers argue that gendered bodies and power are deeply entwined (McDowell 1992; Rose 1993). However, few geographers have investigated how gender and power interact in relation to the politics of abortion access. This thesis seeks to fill this gap by conducting a feminist content analysis of six newspapers from Florida’s three largest metropolitan areas to determine how articles featuring abortion are framed. Analysis of the dataset concludes that the politicization of the abortion debate results in the erasure of women from the conversation, the identification of a pregnant women trope which homogenizes all women into one category, and Planned Parenthood’s classification as a health care provider being ignored subsumed under a recognition of its role in providing abortion services. Overall this study argues that patriarchal institutions regulate women into compulsory motherhood, thereby constraining their agency and ability to fully participate in society participate in political democracy.

This thesis sets out to explore how immigrant women encounter urban green spaces in Istanbul and Stockholm in their everyday lives. Underlying this focus is the importance of urban green spaces’ in providing a sustainable future and a healthy life for all and inequalities in accessing these spaces. Considering a lack of focus on gender and power dynamics in the environmental perception studies and urban green spaces, this thesis inductively explores how women encounter and experience urban green spaces and how power shapes these experiences by adopting a feminist epistemology and methodology through the use of in-depth interviews and qualitative GIS. Using Google Earth as a qualitative GIS method allows for non-verbal expressions to come forward during the interviews and creates a more collaborative and inclusive research process in line with a feminist methodology adopted in this thesis. My findings further contribute to how to practically design inclusive urban green spaces. The findings show that the cultural and gendered constructions of urban green spaces shape how these spaces were experienced by the women participants. The findings also show that body is an important source of knowledge in understanding how women encounter and experience these spaces. Through understanding the role of gender and culture in shaping these spaces and hence the experiences, my findings contribute to scholarship on the accessibility of urban green spaces. How my research participants experience green spaces in the case study locations highlighted the need to understand accessibility beyond physical proximity

Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, is gaining an international reputation for being a creative and environmental conscious city with cutting-edge architecture. At the same time Malmö is infamous for its high levels of poverty and occasional riots. In this thesis I will analyse how the municipal politicians in Malmö — responsible for Malmö’s budget 2022 — formulate social problems in Malmö, as well as the finances they put forward to tackle said problems. My analysis will be guided by Carol Bacchi’s (2010) method What’s the problem represented to be (WPR) as well as perspec- tives of intersectionality and feminist geography.  What is particularly interesting in the analysis of the budget’s social sustainability goals is that Malmö has been using the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 169 targets in Agenda 2030 as a blueprint for the budget ever since 2015.

This dissertation examines how relatives of gun-violence victims, specifically Black women, move about their environments in the aftermath of sudden and tragic loss. I explore the following research questions: 1) How do Black women, who are co-victims of gun homicide, navigate spaces of trauma? 2) How does the experience of trauma extend into other spaces and spatialities of their lives? 3) What are the social, political, and health implications for Black women with limited mobility who are co-victims of gun homicide? This study draws on a literature synthesis on health geographies, geotrauma, and Black Feminist Geographies, as well as auto-methods, specifically a Black Feminist auto-ethnography (BFA). BFA involves analyzing your own experiences in relation to others in their family and community. My autoethnography of my lived experiences in the neighborhood I grew up in started with the observation of my mother in the aftermath of losing my brother to gun violence in 2012. My dissertation develops a research agenda to theorize how racism, poverty, and trauma compound and how Black women craft survival strategies as they navigate landscapes of trauma. I describe the ways that conventional approaches to understanding gun violence can overlook the layers of trauma and fail to capture the nuances or lived experience of being a co-victim of gun violence. I propose BFA to center and understand the lived experience of co-victims of gun violence and to bear witness to the ways we engage with the world around us while processing the trauma that is carried with us. My autoethnography uncovers key strategies my mother and I used to cope with our loss, especially in the face of institutional failures from the policy. This research points towards a need for better mental health resources for co-victims of gun violence as they process their grief. / Geography

<p>Food—where we obtain it, how we obtain it, and so forth—is just one of myriad considerations in everyday life. Considerations about food can be particularly salient for lone mothers, who face a set of challenges in supporting their families, including being the sole caregivers of their children. In examining a case study of Hamilton, Ontario, this research utilizes qualitative methods (interviews and mental maps) and a feminist geography lens to understand the complexity of food insecurity for lone mothers living in two neighbourhoods characterized by a low socio-economic status. Feminist geography offers a unique perspective for understanding food insecurity with its philosophy of improving women’s lives and its story-telling and meaning-making methods. This thesis will explore qualitative themes from face-to-face interviews (<em>n</em>=7) and a focus group (<em>n</em>=1, 5 participants) that include: the distance and time taken to acquire food; loving and caring for one’s child(ren); contextual considerations mothers have to weigh in order to choose food resources, the need for structural change; strategies mothers used to provide for their families; and feelings around being a lone mother. Together, these themes paint a rich and nuanced picture of food insecurity for lone mothers in Hamilton and they illuminate how and where food intersects with household functions and structural forces, such as social assistance. The findings also point to places where social change can take place to improve quality of life.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)