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Linda J Peake

York University, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, Faculty Member

York University, Geography, Faculty Member

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The City Institute, York University
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Urban Studies Program, Department of Social Science, 
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, 
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Feminist Urban Geography / Women in Cities by Linda J Peake

Gender and the City

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2020

1994. Andrews, C., Gurstein, P., Klodawsky, F., Moore Milroy B., Peake, L., Rose, D. and Wekerle, G. "Women in Canada's Cities: Housing and Urban Services (Position Paper of Canada on OECD's Proposal for a Conference)". Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 46pp.

by Linda J Peake and Fran Klodawsky

1995. Peake, L. and McDowell, L. "The Status of Women Geographers and of the Teaching of Feminist Geography in Academic Institutions in the United Kingdom". International Geographic Union Gender and Geography Commission Working Paper No. 33, 40pp.

2017. Ruddick, S., Peake, L., Patrick, D. and Tanyildiz, G. S. "Planetary Urbanization: An Urban Theory for our Time?". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

by Linda J Peake and dp patrick

In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary urbanization we ar... more In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary urbanization we argue that, while they have successfully marked some important limits of mainstream thinking on the urban, their privileging of epistemology cannot produce an urban theory for our time. Engaging in a symptomatic reading of their work, and with a focus on the implications of their limited mobilization of social ontology—or Lefebvre's ontology of the everyday—we ask what is occluded in planetary urbanization. In particular, we explore three areas of concern: the urban as the grounds for difference, centrality and the everyday; the omission of subjects of and occlusion of subjectivity; and the occlusion of a constitutive outside and its political capacities to remake the urban. The changing geographies and pace of urbanization over the past half century have been recasting urban theory, governance, and policy on a global stage. The second decade of the 21st-century is proving to be an especially momentous time for urban knowledge production in which the political stakes are enormously high, with the urban figuring as both cause and consequence of many contemporary planetary issues: the urban is both the instigator of and the solution to global climate change; it is the site of increasing inequality and the urbanization of poverty even as it is also a crucible for innovation and creativity; and it is ground zero for a new era of global governance. 1 Within this climate of different political possibilities for the urban, a number of competing, conflicting, and complementary geographical imaginaries have emerged to make sense of contemporary urbanization.

2017. Peake, L. and Pratt, G. “Why Women in Cities Matter” in Bain, A., and Peake, L. (eds.) Urbanization In A Global Context (Toronto: Oxford University Press), pp.276-294.

2017. "Feminism and the urban” in Short, J. (ed.) A Research Agenda for Cities. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp.82-97.

2016. "The 21st century quest for feminism and the global urban". IJURR.

The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of know... more The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dis missal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbri cation of the gendered subject into neoliberal discourses about the city adds urgency to a feminist intervention. A feminist analytic requires the promotion of a new kind of global urban studies that takes seriously women's struggles, strategies and everyday desires. In this essay I argue for the importance of feminist understandings of knowledge production about the urban. Beyond agreement on the simple but essential point that more and more of the world's population lives in areas defined as urban (and suburban), there are sharp divergences in the current range of approaches to studying the urban, from perspectives as diverse as the critical literature on the right to the city (Kofman) to the millennial 'twenty-first century of the city' analysis (World Bank Infrastructure Group for Urban Development, 2000), from postcolonial and subaltern analyses that aim to provincialize Western urban theory, presenting knowledge of the urban as partial and contestable (

2015. "On feminism and feminist allies in knowledge production in urban geography". Urban Geography.

2013. "Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban" in Peake, L. and Rieker, M. (eds.) Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban (London: Routledge), pp.1-22.

Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban , 2013

2009. "Urban Geography: Gender in the City" in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (London: Elsevier), pp.320-327.

1997. "Toward a social geography of the city: Race and dimensions of urban poverty in women's lives". Journal of Urban Affairs.

Journal of Urban Affairs, 1997

1996. "New Social Movements and Women's Urban Activism" in Caulfield, J. and Peake, L. (eds.) City Lives and City Forms (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp.263-281.

City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and …, 1996

1995. "Toward an Understanding of the Interconnectedness of Women's Lives: the 'Racial' Reproduction of Labor in Low-Income Areas". Urban Geography.

1995. "Seeing the Invisible: Women, Gender and Urban Development" in Stren, R. (ed.) Urban Research in Developing Countries: Vol 4: Thematic Issues (Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto), pp.279-347.

by Linda J Peake and Caroline Moser

Urban Research in Developing Countries Volume 4: Thematic Issues, 1996

1994. "Engendering Change: The Place of Women's Work In Urban-Social Theory" in Kobayashi, A. (ed.) Women, Work and Place (Montreal: McGill Press), pp.3-26.

Women, Work and Place, 1994

1994. Kobayashi, A., Peake, L., Benenson, H. and Pickles, K. "Placing Women and Work" in Kobayashi, A. (ed.) Women, Work and Place (Montreal: McGill Press), pp.xi-xlv.

Women, Work and Place, 1994

1993. "Race and sexuality: challenging the patriarchal structuring of urban social space". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Environment and Planning D, 1993

1990. "Women's Work: Incorporating Gender into Theories of Urban Social Change". Women and Environments.

1988. Bondi, L. and Peake, L. "Gender and the City: Urban Politics Revisited" in Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment (London: Macmillan), pp.109-131.

by Linda J Peake and Liz Bondi

Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban the Environment, 1988

1988. Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. "Preface" and "Introduction: Gender and the Urban Environment" in Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment (London: Macmillan), pp.vi-x and pp.1-20.

Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment, 1988

Gender and the City

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2020

1994. Andrews, C., Gurstein, P., Klodawsky, F., Moore Milroy B., Peake, L., Rose, D. and Wekerle, G. "Women in Canada's Cities: Housing and Urban Services (Position Paper of Canada on OECD's Proposal for a Conference)". Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 46pp.

by Linda J Peake and Fran Klodawsky

1995. Peake, L. and McDowell, L. "The Status of Women Geographers and of the Teaching of Feminist Geography in Academic Institutions in the United Kingdom". International Geographic Union Gender and Geography Commission Working Paper No. 33, 40pp.

2017. Ruddick, S., Peake, L., Patrick, D. and Tanyildiz, G. S. "Planetary Urbanization: An Urban Theory for our Time?". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

by Linda J Peake and dp patrick

In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary urbanization we ar... more In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary urbanization we argue that, while they have successfully marked some important limits of mainstream thinking on the urban, their privileging of epistemology cannot produce an urban theory for our time. Engaging in a symptomatic reading of their work, and with a focus on the implications of their limited mobilization of social ontology—or Lefebvre's ontology of the everyday—we ask what is occluded in planetary urbanization. In particular, we explore three areas of concern: the urban as the grounds for difference, centrality and the everyday; the omission of subjects of and occlusion of subjectivity; and the occlusion of a constitutive outside and its political capacities to remake the urban. The changing geographies and pace of urbanization over the past half century have been recasting urban theory, governance, and policy on a global stage. The second decade of the 21st-century is proving to be an especially momentous time for urban knowledge production in which the political stakes are enormously high, with the urban figuring as both cause and consequence of many contemporary planetary issues: the urban is both the instigator of and the solution to global climate change; it is the site of increasing inequality and the urbanization of poverty even as it is also a crucible for innovation and creativity; and it is ground zero for a new era of global governance. 1 Within this climate of different political possibilities for the urban, a number of competing, conflicting, and complementary geographical imaginaries have emerged to make sense of contemporary urbanization.

2017. Peake, L. and Pratt, G. “Why Women in Cities Matter” in Bain, A., and Peake, L. (eds.) Urbanization In A Global Context (Toronto: Oxford University Press), pp.276-294.

2017. "Feminism and the urban” in Short, J. (ed.) A Research Agenda for Cities. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp.82-97.

2016. "The 21st century quest for feminism and the global urban". IJURR.

The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of know... more The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dis missal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbri cation of the gendered subject into neoliberal discourses about the city adds urgency to a feminist intervention. A feminist analytic requires the promotion of a new kind of global urban studies that takes seriously women's struggles, strategies and everyday desires. In this essay I argue for the importance of feminist understandings of knowledge production about the urban. Beyond agreement on the simple but essential point that more and more of the world's population lives in areas defined as urban (and suburban), there are sharp divergences in the current range of approaches to studying the urban, from perspectives as diverse as the critical literature on the right to the city (Kofman) to the millennial 'twenty-first century of the city' analysis (World Bank Infrastructure Group for Urban Development, 2000), from postcolonial and subaltern analyses that aim to provincialize Western urban theory, presenting knowledge of the urban as partial and contestable (

2015. "On feminism and feminist allies in knowledge production in urban geography". Urban Geography.

2013. "Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban" in Peake, L. and Rieker, M. (eds.) Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban (London: Routledge), pp.1-22.

Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban , 2013

2009. "Urban Geography: Gender in the City" in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (London: Elsevier), pp.320-327.

1997. "Toward a social geography of the city: Race and dimensions of urban poverty in women's lives". Journal of Urban Affairs.

Journal of Urban Affairs, 1997

1996. "New Social Movements and Women's Urban Activism" in Caulfield, J. and Peake, L. (eds.) City Lives and City Forms (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp.263-281.

City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and …, 1996

1995. "Toward an Understanding of the Interconnectedness of Women's Lives: the 'Racial' Reproduction of Labor in Low-Income Areas". Urban Geography.

1995. "Seeing the Invisible: Women, Gender and Urban Development" in Stren, R. (ed.) Urban Research in Developing Countries: Vol 4: Thematic Issues (Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto), pp.279-347.

by Linda J Peake and Caroline Moser

Urban Research in Developing Countries Volume 4: Thematic Issues, 1996

1994. "Engendering Change: The Place of Women's Work In Urban-Social Theory" in Kobayashi, A. (ed.) Women, Work and Place (Montreal: McGill Press), pp.3-26.

Women, Work and Place, 1994

1994. Kobayashi, A., Peake, L., Benenson, H. and Pickles, K. "Placing Women and Work" in Kobayashi, A. (ed.) Women, Work and Place (Montreal: McGill Press), pp.xi-xlv.

Women, Work and Place, 1994

1993. "Race and sexuality: challenging the patriarchal structuring of urban social space". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Environment and Planning D, 1993

1990. "Women's Work: Incorporating Gender into Theories of Urban Social Change". Women and Environments.

1988. Bondi, L. and Peake, L. "Gender and the City: Urban Politics Revisited" in Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment (London: Macmillan), pp.109-131.

by Linda J Peake and Liz Bondi

Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban the Environment, 1988

1988. Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. "Preface" and "Introduction: Gender and the Urban Environment" in Little, J., Peake, L. and Richardson, P. (eds.) Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment (London: Macmillan), pp.vi-x and pp.1-20.

Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment, 1988

2019. Peake L. and England, K. "(What Geographers Should Know About) The State of U.S. and Canadian Academic Professional Associations’ Engagement with Mental Health Practices and Policies". The Professional Geographer.

by Linda J Peake and Kim England

The Professional Geographer, 2019

2019. Peake, L. and Mullings, B. “Mental Health” in Keywords in Radical Geographical Thought: Antipode at 50 (London: Wiley).

Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50, 2019

Addressing issues of mental health became virtually unavoidable in the AngloAmerican academy duri... more Addressing issues of mental health became virtually unavoidable in the AngloAmerican academy during the last decade, particularly in relation to students. Conversations about mental health have begun to proliferate among graduate students and other scholars contingently employed in the academy. The increasing visibility of graduate students experiencing mental and emotional distress is indicative of how the ground upon which “normal” is defined has been shifting rapidly beneath our feet. The relationship between the social and the physiological across different states of mental health is one that continues to be contested among scholars. Studies that examine how the corporatisation of higher education affects mental health are only just starting to appear in geography. One study of geography graduates in the US reveals their co‐optation into a neoliberal ethos of individuality, competition and heightened pressures of productivity and performance, resulting in feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, and indicative of a survival‐oriented campus culture.

2018. "Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline". Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018), 76pp.

by Linda J Peake, Gina K Thornburg, PhD, and Deborah Metzel

2016. Peake, L. and Mullings, B. "Critical Reflections on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Academy". ACME.

An increasing number of students seeking mental health services across university campuses have p... more An increasing number of students seeking mental health services across university campuses have prompted faculty, administrators and student service providers to call attention to what some describe as a crisis. In exploring what a critical commitment to addressing emotional and mental distress in the academic context of the global north might look like we discuss different understandings of what is meant by mental health and the manifestation of distress in the academy as the 'new normal'. After examining data from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom for different constituent groups within university communities we turn to understand this crisis beyond instances of individual distress by situating it within the context of the conditions of knowledge production in neoliberalizing universities. We conclude by imagining a different kind of academy, exploring how the practices that produce it can be differently enacted, outlining the opportunities for and obstacles to a collective and professional response. University campuses are enriched when they recognize and make space for the diversity of mental states that constitute the human condition, but devalued when they create stressful work environments that exacerbate or initiate mental distress. Critical Reflections on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Academy 254

2016. Mullings, B., Peake, L. and Parizeau, K. "Cultivating an Ethic of Wellness in Geography". The Canadian Geographer.

Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to ... more Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction we discuss two particular foci: defining the crisis of mental health and wellbeing in neoliberalizing universities, and institutional and individual responses. Drawing upon recent initiatives to highlight issues of mental health in the academy we focus in this special issue on work by geographers from Canada, the United States, England, and New Zealand that aims to shed some light on the ways that the organized practices of the academy are implicated in the current state of mental health of a broad cross section of its members across university campuses. In bringing the perspectives of Geography graduate students and faculty to bear on questions of mental wellness, this special issue is unique in its attempt to bring together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental and emotional health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in institutions of higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. Drawing together review articles, interview-based research, collective writing, and personal narratives, the articles and viewpoints bring together understandings of the crisis of mental health and wellbeing in neoliberalizing universities, and institutional and individual responses. R eflexions critiques sur la formation d'une ethique du bien-^ etre en g eographie Prenant appui sur les d emarches entreprises r ecemment pour mettre en evidence les probl emes de sant e mentale dans le milieu universitaire, ce num ero sp ecial se consacre aux travaux effectu es par des g eographes en provenance du Canada, des Etats-Unis, de l'Angleterre et de la Nouvelle-Z elande afin de jeter un eclairage sur le rapport entre les modes d'organisation du milieu universitaire et l' etat actuel de sant e mentale d'un vaste echantillon du personnel en poste dans plusieurs campus universitaires. En d egageant les perspectives des etudiants des cycles sup erieurs et des professeurs en g eographie qui se penchent sur le bien-^ etre mental, ce num ero sp ecial innove en proposant une synth ese de trois champs de la connaissance scientifique : la compr ehension par les g eographes de la relation qui unit la sant e mentale et emotionnelle, l'espace social et les A video presentation is available at

2016. Parizeau, K., Shillington, L., Hawkins, R., Sultana, F., Mountz, A., Mullings, B. and Peake, L. "Breaking the Silence: A Feminist Call to Action". The Canadian Geographer.

by Linda J Peake and Farhana Sultana

Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on campuses across North America. While ... more Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on campuses across North America. While feminist geographers have done important work over the years to organize, mentor, gather, and publish collectively on issues related to wellness, much more remains to be done. In this article, we—a collection of scholars who identify as feminist geographers—comment on our experiences of mental wellness in the academy, and engage in a collective self-analysis to better understand the silences, invisibilities, and hesitancies surrounding these issues on the campuses where we work. We argue that not only does more attention need to be brought to bear on this topic, but also that it needs to be more broadly understood. We find that there are institutional, cultural, political, and intersectional factors that impede active engagement with mental health and wellness in the academy, and we discuss strategies for deeper engagement with such important issues for our students, colleagues, research participants, and ourselves.

2019. Peake, L. “The Life and Times of the Union of Socialist Geographers” in Barnes, T., Sheppard, E. (eds.) Spatial Histories of Radical Geography (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 149-181.

Spatial Histories of Radical Geography, 2019

2000. "Urbanisation" and "Urban Planning" in L. Code (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Feminist Theories (London: Routledge), pp.479-80.

Encyclopaedia of Feminist Theories, 2000

2018. Peake, L., Patrick, M., Reddy, R., Ruddick, S., Tanyildiz, G. S., and Tchoukaleyska, R. "Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

by Linda J Peake and Susan Ruddick

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2018

2017. Peake, L. and Bain, A. “Conclusion: Envisioning global urban futures” in Bain, A., and Peake, L. (eds.) Urbanization In A Global Context (Toronto: Oxford University Press), pp.426-435.

2017. Peake, L. and Bain, A. “Preface" and "Introduction: Urbanization and urban geographies” in Bain, A., and Peake, L. (eds.) Urbanization In A Global Context (Toronto: Oxford University Press), pp. xv-xxi and pp.1-15.

Urbanization in a Global Context, 2017

2015. The Jane Finch TSNS Task Force. "Community response to the Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020: What neighbourhood improvement looks like from the perspective of residents in Jane / Finch". 70pp.

2017. “Anthropogeography” in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. and Marston, R. (eds.) The AAG International Encyclopaedia of Geography (Oxford: John Wiley and Sons), Vol. I, pp.174-176.

2017. “Feminist Methodologies” in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. and Marston, R. (eds.) The AAG International Encyclopaedia of Geography (Oxford: John Wiley and Sons), Vol. V, pp.2,331-2,340.

2017. “Heteronormativity” in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. and Marston, R. (eds.) The AAG International Encyclopaedia of Geography (Oxford: John Wiley and Sons), Vol. VII, pp.3,315-3,318.

2017. “Women in Geography” in Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. and Marston, R. (eds.) The AAG International Encyclopaedia of Geography (Oxford: John Wiley and Sons), Vol. XIV, pp.7,768-7,776.

2015. Nyasimi, M., and Peake, L. “Review of SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” in ICSU, ISSC Review of Targets for the Sustainable Development Goals: The Science Perspective (Paris: International Council for Science (ICSU), pp.29-32.

2016. "Review of David Bell and Gill Valentine (eds) (1995) Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities". Progress in Human Geography.

2015. "The Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture: Rethinking the politics of feminist knowledge production in Anglo-American geography". The Canadian Geographer.

2014. "The Emergence of Radical/Critical Geography within North America". ACME.

by Linda J Peake and Eric Sheppard

2013. "Heteronormativity" in Dodds, K., Kuus, M. and Sharpe, J. (eds.) Companion to Critical Geopolitics (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing), pp.89-108.

Companion to Critical Geopolitics, 2013

2012. Ley, D., Braun, B., Domosh, M., LeHeron, R., Peake, L., Willekins, F. and Yeoh, B. "International Benchmarking Review for United Kingdom Human Geography". London: ESRC, 56pp.

by Linda J Peake and Bruce Braun

2012. Bunnell, T., Yeah, S., Peake, L., Skelton, T. and Smith, M. "Geographies of Friendships". Progress in Human Geography.

by Tracey Skelton and Linda J Peake

Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. ... more Friendships are an important part of what makes us, and our geographies of various kinds, human. We consider
how geographers can contribute to efforts to afford friendship greater prominence in the social sciences. The
main part of the article considers three strands of work on friendship that push the boundaries of research in
human geography: (1) geographies of affect/emotion and the ontological construction of the human; (2) children’s
and young people’s geographies and the (re)production of social ordering; and (3) geographies of mobility and
transnationalism in a world of increased human spatial movement and social relations at a distance.

2011. "In, out and unspeakably about: taking social geography beyond an Anglo-American positionality". Social and Cultural Geography.

2010. "Editorial: In remembrance of Julie Graham". Gender, Place and Culture.

2009. "Gender, race, sexuality" in Smith, S., Pain, R., Marston, S. and Jones III, J. P. (eds.) The Handbook of Social Geography (London: SAGE), pp.129-195.

The SAGE handbook of social geographies, Jan 1, 2009

2004. Red Thread. "'You talking ‘bout everyday story': An exploratory study on trafficking in persons in Guyana". Guyana: Red Thread, 80pp.

2010. Bouchard, D., Chatterjee, P., Desai, J., de Souza, K., Detournay, D., Nagar, R., Peake, L., Silvey, R., Lock-Swarr, S. and Wilcox, N. "Continuing Conversations" in Nagar, R. and Lock-Swarr, A. (eds.) Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (Minneapolis: UofMN Press), pp.206- 218.

by Linda J Peake and Richa Nagar

Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, 2010

2010. Peake, L. and de Souza, K. "Feminist Academic and Activist Praxis in Service of the Transnational" in Nagar, R. and Lock-Swarr, A. (eds.) Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (Minneapolis: UofMN Press), pp.105-123.

Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, 2010

2010. "The lost Amerindian girls, the tooth fairy and the Whore of Babylon". (Department of Geography, University of Reading) Working Paper #190, 26pp.

2010. "Feminist and quantitative? Measuring the extent of domestic violence in Georgetown, Guyana". Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia.

2001. Trotz, A. and Peake, L. "Work, Family and Organising: An Overview of the Contemporary Economic, Social and Political Roles of Women in Guyana". Social and Economic Studies.

Social and Economic Studies, 2001

2000. Trotz, A. and Peake, L. "Work, Family and Organising: An Overview of the Emergence of the Economic, Social and Political Roles of Women in British Guiana". Social and Economic Studies.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC …, Jan 1, 2000

2000. "Women Researching Women: Methodology Report and Research Projects on the Study of Domestic Violence and Women's Reproductive Health in Guyana". (Georgetown: Inter-American Development Bank), 300pp.

… , Guyana: Inter-American Development Bank. Rachel …, Jan 1, 2000

1999. Trotz, A. and Peake, L. "'Givin' lil bit for lil bit': Women and Sex Work in Guyana" in Kempadoo, K. (ed.) Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield), pp.263-290.

Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, 1999

1999. Peake, L. and Trotz, A. Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identities in Guyana (London: Routledge).

1998. "Living in Poverty in Linden, Guyana in the 1990s: Bauxite, the 'Development of Poverty' and Household Coping Mechanisms" in McGregor, D. (ed.) Resource Sustainability and Caribbean Development (Kingston: University of West Indies Press), pp.171-194.

Resource Sustainability and Caribbean Development, 1998

1997. "From Co-operative Socialism to a Social Housing Policy? Declines and Revivals in Housing Policy in Guyana" in Potter, R. and Conway, D. (eds.) Self-help Housing, the Poor and the State in the Caribbean (Kingston: University of West Indies Press), pp.120-140.

Self-Help Housing, the Poor and the State in the Carribean, 1997

1996. "From Social Bases to Subjectivities: The Case of Red Thread, Guyana" in Bell, D., Keil, R. and Wekerle, G. (eds.) Global Cities - Local Places: Issues in Urban Sustainability (Toronto: Black Rose Books), pp.147-154.

Local Places: In the Age of the Global City, Jan 1, 1996

1993. "The Development and Role of Women's Political Organizations in Guyana" in Momsen, J. (ed.) Women and Change in the Caribbean (London: Macmillan), pp.109-131.

Women & change in the Caribbean: a Pan-Caribbean …, 1993

1987. Moser, C. and Peake, L. "Postscript: What Hope for the Future?" in Moser, C. and Peake, L. (eds.) Women, Human Settlements and Housing (London: Tavistock), pp.195-201.

by Linda J Peake and Caroline Moser

Women, Human Settlements and Housing, 1987

1987. Moser, C. and Peake, L. "The Impact of Government Housing Policy on Women in Guyana" in Moser, C. and Peake, L. (eds.) Women, Human Settlements and Housing (London: Tavistock), pp.113-138.

Women, Human Settlements and Housing, 1987

1987. "Guyana: A Country in Crisis". Geography.

1986. "Low Income Women's Participation in the Housing Process: A Case Study from Guyana". Development Planning Unit, University College London, Gender and Planning Working Paper #10, 42pp.

In, out and unspeakably about: taking social geography beyond an Anglo-American positionality

Social & Cultural Geography, Nov 1, 2011

ABSTRACT There appears to be something of an anxiety-producing impasse in British social geograph... more ABSTRACT There appears to be something of an anxiety-producing impasse in British social geography with repeated calls to examine its positionality. Simultaneously, British, indeed Anglo-American, social geography appears to be enjoying something of a renaissance in the new millennium. I argue that such a paradoxical situation owes its existence to the hegemonic narrative of Anglo-American social geography. Starting with an overview of the development of constructions of the social in British social geography, I explore the extent to which such recurring identity crises are opening up avenues for change. Turning to the place of Anglo-American social geography in the international field, I examine the specificity of the institutional and linguistic positioning of British social geography claiming that change will remain surficial until it develops ways of thinking that do not deny the multivocal voices that have made it what it is. This denial constitutes social geography&#39;s ‘unspeakable’ and has two intertwining dimensions, an unwillingness to engage with its own whiteness and to move outside its own established repertoire to encompass non-western knowledges. Speculating about the redirection of Anglo-American social geography, I make a claim for a social geography that is constantly reinventing itself in ways that desire difference.

Introduction to Engin Isin's Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship

Political Geography, Mar 1, 2005

Introduction: geography and gender in the urban environment

If this book had been published a decade ago it would no doubt have started with the assertion th... more If this book had been published a decade ago it would no doubt have started with the assertion that women have largely been absent from studies of urban life. In recent years, however, the growing interest in the activities and experiences of women has transformed this statement into something of a truism. There is now a growing body of writing on feminist issues relating to gender and the urban environment to which geographers have contributed alongside sociologists, historians, planners, architects, anthropologists, policy analysts and environmental psychologists. (See, for example, Antipode, 1984; Built Environment, 1984; Matrix, 1984; WGSG, 1984.) The aim of this book is to elaborate the particular contribution that feminist geography can make to the analysis of women’s activities and experience and the nature of their oppression in urban areas, and to indicate the kind of research agenda to which it gives rise.

Gender in the City

Elsevier eBooks, 2009

‘Gender in the city’ is a topic that has attracted attention mostly from feminist scholars workin... more ‘Gender in the city’ is a topic that has attracted attention mostly from feminist scholars working in a variety of disciplines such as geography, history, sociology, political science, planning, and architecture. Its development, from the 1960s, has followed two separate trajectories with work focusing either on women’s lives in Western cities or on women in cities in the Global South. The first half of this article gives an account of how these two fields emerged and what their major contributions have been and how these have changed over time. I then summarize work in the major current fields of interest to feminist urban scholars: the restructuring of urban form and of women’s lives; urban planning and design; urban public space and urban citizenship; housing/ homelessness/ homes; and women’s fear and pleasures in the city.

The challenge of feminist geography

Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1989

Toward an Understanding of the Interconnectedness of Women's Lives: The "Racial" Reproduction of Labor in Low-Income Urban Areas

Urban Geography, Jul 1, 1995

ABSTRACT The “racial” reproduction of labor forms the central concern of this paper, which compri... more ABSTRACT The “racial” reproduction of labor forms the central concern of this paper, which comprises an investigation of low-income African-American and Anglo-American wome&#39;s engagement in waged and unwaged reproductive activities in a downtown area of Grand Rapids, Michigan. A snowball sample was conducted with 97 women. n“Race” was shown to structure options in relation to occupations, access to transportation, and child care provision, as well as formal and informal community networks. An emphasis on the practices underlying the creation of social constructions of gender and “race” reveals that even within the same geographical location women have different experiences of urban poverty.

Gender, Race, Sexuality

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2010

Toward a Social Geography of the City: Race and Dimensions of Urban Poverty in Women’S Lives

Journal of Urban Affairs, Oct 1, 1997

Page 1. TOWARD A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE CITY: Race and Dimensions of Urban Poverty in Women&... more

Mapping Women, Making Politics

Routledge eBooks, Mar 7, 2013

On feminism and feminist allies in knowledge production in urban geography

Urban Geography, Dec 2, 2015

ABSTRACT In this response to Ananya Roy’s paper, I ask: who are the allies of feminist knowledge ... more ABSTRACT In this response to Ananya Roy’s paper, I ask: who are the allies of feminist knowledge production about the urban? To explore this question, I specifically ask what feminist scholars may find of use in two books, namely Arrival Cities by Doug Saunders and Implosions/Explosions edited by Neil Brenner, that are representative of two major discourses on the urban, respectively, the “Urban Age” and planetary urbanization, currently favored by policy bodies and (some) academics. Their limited engagement with politics leads me to conclude with a call for a feminist mode of situated knowledge production to engage with (the limits of) urban theory and the urban as a site of praxis.

Women in British geography revisited: or the same old story

Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1990

2005. McKittrick, K. and Peake, L. "The Difference that Difference(s) Make to Geography" in Castree, N., Rogers, A. and Sherman, D. (eds.) Questioning Geography: Essays on a Contested Discipline (Oxford, Blackwell), pp.39-54

Anthropogeography

International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, Mar 6, 2017

The Life and Times of the Union of Socialist Geographers

‘Proper Words in Proper Places …’ Or, of Young Turks and Old Turkeys’

Canadian Geographer, Sep 1, 1994

... &#x27;PROPER WORDS IN PROPER PLACES &#x27; OR, OF YOUNG TURKS AND OLD TURKEYS&#x... more

Mental Health, Geography, and the Academy

Tiwa’s morning

Global Urbanism, 2021

Planetary urbanization: An urban theory for our time?

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2017

In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid’s thesis on planetary urbanization we ar... more In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid’s thesis on planetary urbanization we argue that, while they have successfully marked some important limits of mainstream thinking on the urban, their privileging of epistemology cannot produce an urban theory for our time. Engaging in a symptomatic reading of their work, and with a focus on the implications of their limited mobilization of social ontology—or Lefebvre’s ontology of the everyday—we ask what is occluded in planetary urbanization. In particular, we explore three areas of concern: the urban as the grounds for difference, centrality and the everyday; the omission of subjects of and occlusion of subjectivity; and the occlusion of a constitutive outside and its political capacities to remake the urban.

Cultivating an ethic of wellness in Geography

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, 2016

Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to ... more Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction we discuss two particular foci: defining the crisis of mental health and wellbeing in neoliberalizing universities, and institutional and individual responses. Watch a video presentation of this Special Issue

The Twenty‐First‐Century Quest for Feminism and the Global Urban

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015

The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of know... more The purpose of this essay is to initiate a conversation about the production and analysis of knowledge on women and the urban. Starting with a brief overview of how women have been addressed in the field of urban studies, I turn to their treatment in works by critical urban scholars, revealing how women fall away from urban theories. The dismissal of women from theory construction and the impact on women's lives of the imbrication of the gendered subject into neoliberal discourses about the city adds urgency to a feminist intervention. A feminist analytic requires the promotion of a new kind of global urban studies that takes seriously women's struggles, strategies and everyday desires.