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Feminist urban utopias and dystopias – searching for (an)other city?
Umeå University, Sweden.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5249-9056
2024 (English)In: Handbook on Gender and Cities / [ed] Linda Peake, Anindita Datta, and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, p. 38-46Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Both early and more contemporary feminist utopias and dystopias present us with alternatives that are both disruptive and transgressive of the existing order, making us aware of the unequal power relations embodied in society that interlock in producing urban space and the subjectivities available to women and other ‘Others’. They highlight the normalizations of hegemonic masculinity and heteronormativity in the city that produce some bodies as ‘normal’ and ‘in place’ and others as ‘out of place’. We discuss the possibilities these utopian/dystopian imaginings reveal for what feminist urban spaces can be, challenging taken-for-granted power relations, hierarchies and systems of exclusion/inclusion. Finally, we consider how envisaging feminist utopias and/or dystopias encourages thinking outside the box and offers a way of contesting dominant discourses: how, by developing a critical approach to what exists, such imaginings may open up changing cities physically, emotionally, environmentally and democratically by picturing (an)other future city. 

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. p. 38-46
Keywords [en]
Alternative visions, City, Dystopias, Feminist utopias, Gendered power relations
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Gender Studies
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-102764DOI: 10.4337/9781786436139.00010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85212010333ISBN: 9781786436122 (print)ISBN: 9781786436139 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-102764DiVA, id: diva2:1930581
Available from: 2025-01-23 Created: 2025-01-23 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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