Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series

“Geography Matters and a Feminist Ethics of Care”

Lorraine Dowler, professor of geography and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at The Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Dowler’s scholarship is rooted in a feminist approach to geopolitics that enables more fluid conceptualizations of compassion, identity and individuality as related to understanding everyday life, private spaces and the lives of women and other vulnerable groups. In her current research, she expands on her initial question of a feminist geopolitics and draw on the literatures of feminist care ethics to examine the potential for a caring geopolitics in a world where hate fuels racist and xenophobic hate crimes; routinized forms of rape culture and the slow march of economic and political exploitation.