Abstract
Abstract This paper discusses a binary discourse of 'theory' and 'empirical investigation' in the human geography practised in Aotearoa (New Zealand)[1]. I attempt to illustrate the way in which such dichotomous thinking articulates with the social construction of a hegemonic masculinity to effect a specific geographic understanding of the world. I suggest that this theory/empirical investigation binary gives rise to at least three significant problems in geographic research: a gendered and hierarchical structuring of geographic thought, a devaluation of the feminised term in the binary, and unworkable 'mobile positioning' of the researcher.
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AotearoaMasculinitySociologyHegemonyEmpirical researchGender studiesBinary oppositionHegemonic masculinityEpistemologyGeographySocial sciencePolitical sciencePolitics
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- 1994
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- article
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- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 245-260
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- 59
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Lawrence D. Berg
(1994).
Masculinity, place and a binary discourse of ‘theory’ and ‘empirical investigation’ in the human geography of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Gender Place & Culture
, 1
(2)
, 245-260.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09663699408721212
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- 10.1080/09663699408721212