Social Constructionism and Feminism: it’s all down to us

Progress in Human Geography / Progress in Physical Geography Resources

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Crampton, J.W. (2001) ‘Maps as social constructions: power, communication and visualization’, Progress in Human Geography 25 (2): 235‒52. doi:10.1191/030913201678580494.

Demeritt, D. (2002) ‘What is the “social construction of nature”? A typology and sympathetic critique’, Progress in Human Geography 26 (6): 767‒90. doi: 10.1191/10309132502ph402oa.

Grainger, A. (2010) ‘Uncertainty in the construction of global knowledge of tropical forests’, Progress in Physical Geography 34 (6): 811‒44. doi: 10.1177/0309133310387326.

McDowell, L. (1993a) ‘Space, place and gender relations: Part I. Feminist empiricism and the geography of social relations’, Progress in Human Geography 17 (2): 157‒79.  doi: 10.1177/030913259301700202

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/17/2/157.full.pdf+html

McDowell, L. (1993b) ‘Space, place and gender relations: Part II.  Identity, difference, feminist geometries and geographies’, Progress in Human Geography 17 (3): 305‒18 doi: 0.1177/030913259301700301.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/17/3/305.full.pdf+html

Pedynowski, D. (2003) ‘Science(s) which, when and whose? Probing the metanarrative of scientific knowledge in the social construction of nature’, Progress in Human Geography 27 (6): 735‒52. doi: 10.1191/0309132503ph459oa.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/27/6/735.full.pdf+html

Silvey, R. (2004) ‘Power, difference and mobility: feminist advances in migration studies’, Progress in Human Geography 28 (4): 490‒506. doi: 10.1191/0309132504ph490oa

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/28/4/490.full.pdf+html

Wainwright, S.P. (2012) ‘Science studies in physical geography: an idea whose time has come?’ Progress in Physical Geography 36 (6): 786‒812. doi: 10.1177/0309133312450997.

http://ppg.sagepub.com/content/36/6/786.full.pdf+html

Wright, M.W. (2010) ‘Gender and geography II: bridging the gap – feminist, queer, and the geographical imaginary’, Progress in Human Geography 34 (1): 56‒66. doi: 10.1177/0309132509008.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/34/1/56.full.pdf+html

Other resources

Website materials – more on social constructionism  (Word)

Bergoffen, D. (2010) ‘Simone de Beauvoir’, in E.N. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 edition). http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/beauvoir/

Bird, A. (2013) ‘Thomas Kuhn’, in E.N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition) http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/thomas-kuhn/

Bowell, T. (2011) ‘Feminist standpoint theory’, in J. Fieser and B. Dowden (eds) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/fem-stan/

Hacking, I. (1999) The Social Construction of What? Harvard University Press.  http://larvalsubjects.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hacking-the-social-construction-of-what2.pdf

Hausman, R., Tyson, L. and Zahidi, S. (2012) The Global Gender Gap Report.  Geneva: World Economic Forum.  http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012.pdf   

Mallon, R. (2013) ‘Naturalistic approaches to social construction’,  in E.N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2013 edition) http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2013/entries/social-construction-naturalistic/.