Key publications
Freeman C (In Press). Feeling Better: Representing abortion in ‘feminist’ television.
Culture, Health & Sexuality Full text.
Freeman C (In Press). The desert, the border, and the city: Staging a spectacle on the Chile-Peru border.
Political Geography Full text.
Freeman C (2020). Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities.
Mobilities,
15(6), 896-910.
Abstract:
Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor. &. Francis Group. Scholarship on abortion travel has examined the places women travel between and why such journeys are necessary. However, there has been scant attention paid to the journeys themselves and how these journeys are undertaken. This paper uses William Walters’ notion of ‘viapolitics’ to better attend to how people travel by focussing on the role of vehicles in abortion politics. This takes three parts: an exploration of the emotional and embodied journeys that women have to take to access abortions; the role of the vehicle as a site of political activism around abortion rights; and the transportation of abortion medication. Viapolitics has to date only been used within migration politics but as this paper shows, it has utility beyond this field to interrogate abortion travels and highlight the role of vehicles in abortion access as well as to explore how abortion transport can be emancipatory for women. This paper furthers viapolitics by arguing that we need to consider the journeys of ‘things’ and not just people. In the case of abortion access, it is the transportation of abortion medication rather than the travel of women that is the most socially just solution to discriminatory laws and extra-legal barriers.
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Freeman C (2019). Historical Everyday Geopolitics on the Chile-Peru Border.
BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH Full text.
Calkin S, Freeman C (2018). Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access.
Social & Cultural Geography,
20(9), 1325-1332.
Full text.
Freeman C (2017). The crime of choice: abortion border crossings from Chile to Peru.
Gender, Place and Culture,
24(6), 851-868.
Abstract:
The crime of choice: abortion border crossings from Chile to Peru
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor. &. Francis Group. Since 1989 abortion in Chile has been illegal in every single circumstance. This means that tens of thousands of women every year undergo clandestine abortions at great risk to their health. Class directly influences Chilean women’s relationships to abortion; wealthier women can pay for the confidentiality of a safe doctor whereas poorer women cannot. There is just one region where women regardless of class can easily travel to another country in search of abortions, Arica in northern Chile. This article considers the previously unstudied phenomenon whereby women cross the border quickly and cheaply from northern Chile to the Peruvian city of Tacna where numerous clinics offer the procedure. This article utilises Foucault’s concept of biopolitics to trace how women are forced to cross a border to avoid government legislation and finds that even by leaving the territory of the state, women do not fully leave state control. Despite the lack of official statistics, interviews with healthworkers and a young woman who made the crossing show that abortion border crossings do occur and this article reflects on the legal, safety, and biopolitical ramifications of these journeys for Chilean women.
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Publications by year
In Press
Freeman C (In Press). Feeling Better: Representing abortion in ‘feminist’ television.
Culture, Health & Sexuality Full text.
Freeman C (In Press). Multiple methods beyond triangulation: collage as a methodological framework in geography.
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography Full text.
Freeman C (In Press). The desert, the border, and the city: Staging a spectacle on the Chile-Peru border.
Political Geography Full text.
2022
Freeman C (2022). Book review: Littlejohn, Krystale E. (2021) Just get on the pill: the uneven burden of reproductive politics. University of California Press: Oakland, CA.
Gender, Place and Culture Full text.
Freeman C (2022). McPherson, Alan (2019) Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice. The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill), 392 pp. £36.50 hbk.
Bulletin of Latin American Research Full text.
2021
Freeman C (2021). Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Sarah De Los Santos Upton. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018 (ISBN 978-1-498-54257-9).
Hypatia,
36(4).
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Hope J, Freeman C, Maclean K, Pande R, Sou G (2021). Shifts to Global Development: is this a reframing of power, agency, and progress?.
Area Full text.
2020
Freeman C (2020). Abortion Across (Some) Borders?.
Women's Reproductive Health,
7(2), 147-149.
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Freeman C (2020). Borders. In Domosh M, Withers C, Heffernan M (Eds.)
The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography, SAGE.
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Freeman C (2020). Peruvian Lives Across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home.
Feminist Encounters: a Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics,
4(1).
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Freeman C (2020). Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities.
Mobilities,
15(6), 896-910.
Abstract:
Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor. &. Francis Group. Scholarship on abortion travel has examined the places women travel between and why such journeys are necessary. However, there has been scant attention paid to the journeys themselves and how these journeys are undertaken. This paper uses William Walters’ notion of ‘viapolitics’ to better attend to how people travel by focussing on the role of vehicles in abortion politics. This takes three parts: an exploration of the emotional and embodied journeys that women have to take to access abortions; the role of the vehicle as a site of political activism around abortion rights; and the transportation of abortion medication. Viapolitics has to date only been used within migration politics but as this paper shows, it has utility beyond this field to interrogate abortion travels and highlight the role of vehicles in abortion access as well as to explore how abortion transport can be emancipatory for women. This paper furthers viapolitics by arguing that we need to consider the journeys of ‘things’ and not just people. In the case of abortion access, it is the transportation of abortion medication rather than the travel of women that is the most socially just solution to discriminatory laws and extra-legal barriers.
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2019
Freeman C, Calkin S (2019). Feminism/Feminist Geography. In Kobayashi A (Ed)
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier.
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Feminism/Feminist Geography
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Freeman C (2019). Filming female desire: queering the gaze of pop music videos.
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Filming female desire: queering the gaze of pop music videos
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor. &. Francis Group. This paper examines the queer gaze within pop music videos. It contends that the contemporary US musician Hayley Kiyoko can be seen as a queer music video auteur who has transformed what the ‘gaze’ can mean in mainstream pop music through directing her own videos. The paper asserts that through her performance within and, arguably even more significantly, via her direction of videos, Kiyoko has produced a new and complex portrayal of how female sexual desire is represented even when, on the surface, it may not necessarily appear to disrupt normativity. Reaction videos made by Kiyoko’s fans have also queered the gaze whereby the ‘watcher’ becomes the ‘watched’. The paper concludes that online spaces and digital technologies are radically reshaping understandings of queer sexuality in music videos.
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Freeman C (2019). Historical Everyday Geopolitics on the Chile-Peru Border.
BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH Full text.
2018
Calkin S, Freeman C (2018). Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access.
Social & Cultural Geography,
20(9), 1325-1332.
Full text.
2017
Rodríguez A, Freeman C (2017). El estudiante y la frontera: una aproximación a los imaginarios geográficos en el Norte de Chile.
Espacios,
6(11), 110-110.
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El estudiante y la frontera: una aproximación a los imaginarios geográficos en el Norte de Chile
<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Se realiza una aproximación al imaginario geográfico trifronterizo en el extremo norte de Chile, desde la perspectiva de niños y jóvenes, comprendiendo la frontera como una construcción tanto social como experiencial. El trabajo aborda el imaginario geográfico a partir de la aplicación de mapas mentales en instituciones educacionales públicas de la región de Arica y Parinacota, utilizándose una metodología semi-cualitativa. Los resultados demuestran que existe una frontera dinámica, que sin embargo recae en una paradoja, dado que en la mayoría de los mapas mentales analizados nos enfrentamos a una frontera-barrera, pero que en el discurso de los informantes se deja ver lo contrario, una frontera-porosa o multi-transterritorial.</p><p><strong>Palabras claves:</strong> frontera, territorio, cognición, mapas mentales, región de Arica y Parinacota</p>
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Freeman C (2017). Latino Heartland: of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest - by Vega, Sujey. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 36, 381-383.
Freeman C (2017). Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk. Journal of Latin American Geography, 16(1), 210-211.
Freeman C (2017). The crime of choice: abortion border crossings from Chile to Peru.
Gender, Place and Culture,
24(6), 851-868.
Abstract:
The crime of choice: abortion border crossings from Chile to Peru
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor. &. Francis Group. Since 1989 abortion in Chile has been illegal in every single circumstance. This means that tens of thousands of women every year undergo clandestine abortions at great risk to their health. Class directly influences Chilean women’s relationships to abortion; wealthier women can pay for the confidentiality of a safe doctor whereas poorer women cannot. There is just one region where women regardless of class can easily travel to another country in search of abortions, Arica in northern Chile. This article considers the previously unstudied phenomenon whereby women cross the border quickly and cheaply from northern Chile to the Peruvian city of Tacna where numerous clinics offer the procedure. This article utilises Foucault’s concept of biopolitics to trace how women are forced to cross a border to avoid government legislation and finds that even by leaving the territory of the state, women do not fully leave state control. Despite the lack of official statistics, interviews with healthworkers and a young woman who made the crossing show that abortion border crossings do occur and this article reflects on the legal, safety, and biopolitical ramifications of these journeys for Chilean women.
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2015
Freeman C (2015). Violence on the Chile-Peru border: Arica 1925-2015.
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Violence on the Chile-Peru border: Arica 1925-2015
This thesis examines the paradox of the Chile-Peru border, and specifically the Chilean border city of Arica, between 1925 and 2015. Through an eclectic mixed method ‘collage’, primarily relying on archival research and extended interviews, the richness of the lived experience of the border comes to the fore. Arica has been a space of violence since it was appropriated from Peru by Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879-1883) and I am interested in how this violence has lingered and manifested itself in various ways since Arica officially became Chilean territory in the 1920s. This violence often stems from a performance of Chilean machismo at the border. Arica is a space of contradiction. A space of extreme nationalism but also of rejection of the Chilean state, of being central to the Chilean nation but also of being peripheral and abandoned. Over five ‘border moments’ over ninety years Arica oscillates between centrality and marginality dependent on threats to Chilean sovereignty at the border. Through a chronological and multi-disciplinary arc the history of violence in Arica can be better understood. The thesis begins in 1925 when the United States became involved in the dispute over the Chile-Peru border that hadn’t been settled since the War of the Pacific. Violence permeated the region and made an attempted plebiscite impossible and although the border was demarcated through other means in 1929, Arica soon became ignored by the Chilean state. A state of abandonment remained until the 1950s when economic initiatives enacted at the regional level succeeded in raising the prospects and spirits of Arica, purging the area of violence …
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2013
Freeman C (2013). IDENTITY AND THE MILITARIZED BORDER: MI MEJOR ENEMIGO (CHILE, 2005).
Espaço e Cultura,
0(33).
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