Affecting geospatial technologies: Toward a feminist politics of emotion

Professional Geographer

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-34

  Kwan, Mei Po ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Emotion; Feminist politics; Geospatial technologies; GIS

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; GIS; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 33846467183     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9272.2007.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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