Journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 693-704Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12376
Keywords
Development Geography; emotion; fieldwork; gender equality in the academy; motherhood; time
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- British Academy [PM150114]
- Study of Latin America
- Leverhulme Trust [RF-2016-413]
- Study of Caribbean
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The idea and practice of going into the field to conduct research and gather data is a deeply rooted aspect of Geography as a discipline. For global North Development Geographers, among others, this usually entails travelling to, and spending periods of time in, often far-flung parts of the global South. Forging a successful academic career as a Development Geographer in the UK is therefore to some extent predicated on mobility. This paper aims to critically engage with the gendered aspects of this expected mobility, focusing on the challenges and time constraints that are apparent when conducting overseas fieldwork as a mother, unaccompanied by her children. The paper emphasises the emotion work that is entailed in balancing the competing demands of overseas fieldwork and mothering, and begins to think through the implications of these challenges in terms of the types of knowledge we produce, as well as in relation to gender equality within the academy.
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