Finding a way into (feminist) economic geography

摘要

I was both excited, and a little nervous, to be invited to participate in this panel on feminist economic geography and difference. I am not seen as an economic geographer and do not usually describe myself as one. I sometimes pose as an economic geographer through my collaboration with Barbara Ellen Smith (Smith and Winders, 2008, 2016), but she brings the credentials in economic and labor theories to our writing. Many graduate students in my department have strong interests in economic geography, especially Marxism, and membership on their committees means that I have learned just enough to be dangerous in conversations about value, the labor process, and other topics. While such themes obviously impact my work on immigration, racial politics, and social belonging, economic geography per se is not the primary way I have understood my place within the discipline.