Hanrahan, Kelsey
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Item To hold and be held: engaging with suffering at end of life through a consideration of personal writing(Routledge, 2017) Hanrahan, Kelsey B.; Towson University. Department of Geography & Environmental PlanningItem Feminist contributions to geography coming from, and focused on, Ghana(Pennsylvania Geographical Society, 2018) Hanrahan, Kelsey B.; Towson University. Department of Geography & Environmental PlanningThis is a brief discussion of feminist and gender-focused geography from Ghana. I am deeply indebted to the work of Mariama Awumbila at the University of Ghana (UG), a geographer who has written elsewhere on the development of feminist and gender-focused research in Ghana, in African institutions, and by African scholars (see Awumbila 2007a, 2007b). Women’s activism and scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa is sometimes labeled “feminist,” but the term is controversially linked to Western ideas. Today in Ghana, young women may embrace issues of equality and empowerment but shun the label as elitist, while older women more readily identify with it (Bawa 2018). Recognizing this, in this piece I cautiously refer to feminism in Ghana in discussing the relationship between women’s rights activism in the first few decades of Ghana’s nationhood and the development of practice and scholarship aimed at addressing gender inequalities that involved activist-academics (Bawa 2018), but I will also refer more broadly to scholarship as gender-focused. I begin with a brief discussion of the development of feminist and gender-focused scholarship in Ghana. I then speak to the progress made over the last decade since Awumbila’s reviews were published. I will briefly examine the contributions made by geographers both from within and outside of Ghana who have contributed to the documentation of women and gender dynamics in Ghanaian societies, and have worked to critique feminist and gendered analyses imported from global North contexts.Item Moving beyond Neverland: reflecting upon the state of the diverse economies research program and the study of alternative economic spaces(University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2015-03-19) Hanrahan, Kelsey B.; Fickey, Amanda; Towson University. Department of Geography & Environmental PlanningThe project of examining economic diversity and alterity has grown significantly both within the discipline of geography and beyond. There now exists an expansive literature pertaining to diverse economies and alternative economic spaces, which continues to grow in new and exciting ways. In this observation piece we reflect upon the current state of the diverse economies literature and the study of alternative economic practices, which we argue is in need of more nuanced analysis in the form of self-critique. We suggest that such an analysis is possible by bridging the gap between ‘believers’ and ‘skeptics’. Researchers exploring the economic landscape must be critical, reflexive, and reach beyond literature and political boundaries while still being hopeful. We must explore common themes, shared concerns, and possibilities for future research. In this paper, we briefly consider two topics which are in need of further attention within this field of study: (1) the importance of power relations and gendered positions; (2) the significance of historical-geographic context. Those examining alterity and/or diversity must engage more frequently with one another as each of these fields offer lessons for enacting a radical politics of the economy rooted in hope; we must actively join together in our efforts to identify and document potentially emancipatory economic forms.Item Interstices of care: re-imagining the geographies of care(Wiley, 2020-06) Hanrahan, Kelsey B.; Smith, Christine E.; Towson University. Department of Geography & Environmental PlanningIn this introduction we argue that taking a topological approach to care can encourage us to understand both how caring relations and practices are produced and the forms they take as they shift and transform. We suggest that thinking topologically about the articles collected in this special section highlights how caring actions and practices ripple out into the world beyond immediate caring relationships and the immediate moment. Responding to a call within geographies of care to be thoroughly attuned to the placed‐ness of caring relations and to contribute work that theorises from places beyond the global north, the papers in this collection are situated in diverse geographical and cultural contexts, thoroughly contextualised in place and time and explore complicated relations that shape and challenge care. The geographies of care presented in this collection are a sampling of the diverse forms of care that are possible and, we argue, that by employing a topological approach to care, the possibility of what care can be and mean multiplies and expands.