Pushing Boundaries

Reflections on the 2022 International FEMGEOG Conference

Auteurs-es

  • Rachel Colls Durham University
  • Jennifer Fluri University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Brenda Boonabaana University of Texas at Austin
  • Kate Coddington University of Albany
  • Anindita Datta University of Delhi
  • Caroline Faria University of Texas at Austin
  • Sarah Klosterkamp University of Bonn
  • Zoë Meletis University of Northern British Columbia
  • Amy Trauger University of Georgia
  • Jill Williams University of Arizona
  • Nancy Worth University of Waterloo

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.zr3mcv-2444

Mots-clés :

feminist geographies, feminist praxis, conference, solidarity

Résumé

The following paper discusses and reflects upon the practices of organizing and attending the 2022 hybrid International Feminist Geography Conference (FEMGEOG), held in a range of physical and virtual locations and settings and across time zones.  Through a series of short reflections written by members of the organizing committee it considers the practices of conference planning and organization alongside people’s experiences of their involvement and participation at different stages of the endeavour. The title of the conference, Pushing Boundaries, represents how the ethos and organisation of the conference sought to push against pandemic related travel restrictions, academic hierarchies of knowledge production and the financial inequities of conference attendance.  It aimed to foster new means of connection, community and ways of relating to each other, and our research, through  its international, multi-hub format. The paper also discusses the tensions and difficulties of organising an event of this kind, with reference to workload, funding and the technological demands and competencies required to foster inclusivity and connection. These reflections work as a means to provide advice and support for feminist geographers in the development of similar, future events.

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This image is comes from Acetino et al. (this issue). The authors write: it represents our effort to weave together our academic experiences. It is a patchwork of fourteen tiles that we created individually. Some are hand-drawn, some digitally designed, some are collages, and others are photographs capturing moments from fieldwork and life. The tiles are colourful, sized differently as if they were knitted with yarn of different textures, widths, and consistencies. They are all stitched together by a thread that forms a thin, yet solid line that joins the former blank spaces into a blanket. In the bottom left corner, the blanket is held together by the transfeminist symbol, filled with a raised fist holding a needle. This needle connects to the thread that binds the blanket - our experiences - together. The frame of the blanket is decorated with some sentences from the text: “Who has the privilege to be vulnerable?”; “Commendable when critical but only toward the “outside world.” “Eco-transfeminists, anticapitalists, antifascists, antimilitarists, anticolonialists”.

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2025-08-22

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Colls, R., Fluri, J., Boonabaana, B., Coddington, K., Datta, A., Faria, C., … Worth, N. (2025). Pushing Boundaries: Reflections on the 2022 International FEMGEOG Conference. ACME: E-Revue Internationale De géographies Critiques, 24(4), 464–487. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.zr3mcv-2444

Numéro

Vol. 24 No. 4 (2025): Research Articles, Intervention, Roundtable, and Translation

Rubrique

Roundtables

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© Rachel Colls, Jennifer Fluri, Brenda Boonabaana, Kate Coddington, Anindita Datta, Caroline Faria, Sarah Klosterkamp, Zoë Meletis, Amy Trauger, Jill Williams, Nancy Worth 2025

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