Gowns, globalization, and “global intimate mappingâ€: Geovisualizing Uganda’s wedding industry

Dominica K Whitesell and Caroline V Faria
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Dominica K Whitesell: University of Texas at Austin, USA

Environment and Planning C, 2020, vol. 38, issue 7-8, 1275-1290

Abstract: In this article, we put critical geographic information systems (GIS) methods into conversation with feminist political and economic geographies, mapping the Ugandan wedding industry across the body, city, and the global. In doing so, we ground macro geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts in the lived experiences of women involved in the wedding industry, revealing some of the cross-scalar political economies of the trade. We develop a form of “global intimate mapping†to ask, empirically: how are new transnational trade networks reflected in the cityscape and the bodies of brides? And conceptually: what productive insight does feminist GIS offer for feminist political and economic geographies?

Keywords: Feminist GIS; East Africa; neoliberalism; feminist political geography; fashion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/2399654418821133

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