Claiming space and community: rural women’s strategies for living with, and beyond, fear |
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| Authors: | Ruth Panelli Anna Kraack |
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| Institution: | a Department of Geography, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
b Department of Geography, University of Exeter, EX4 4QJ UK |
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| Abstract: | Following the well-established literature on women’s fear in urban contexts, a small but important literature has also begun to document accounts of boldness, fearlessness and empowerment. We extend this work by considering ways in which women live with, and beyond, experiences of fear. We argue that fear and fearlessness are not discrete and separate states, but rather they are often simultaneous conditions that women negotiate in complex ways. Moving away from a sense of victims and passivity, we suggest that women have spatial and social strategies that can be adopted when they face fear or take up forms of action that might be termed ‘bold’ or ‘courageous’. Consequently, this work draws on Koskela’s Gender, Place and Culture 4 (1997) 301] previous discussion of ‘bold women’ in Finland to develop a notion of agency and highlight strategies that some rural women adopt in New Zealand. |
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| Keywords: | Fear Women Rural Agency Space Community |
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