ABSTRACT

In outdoor rock climbing, the first person who successfully ascends and sets up a route – the first ascensionist – chooses a name for it. Some first ascensionists issue discriminatory route names. This article explores how one group of climbing women negotiates misogynistic route names. I qualitatively analyse seventeen, individual, semi-structured interviews and four focus group interviews, and six themes emerge: frustration, helplessness, exclusion, internalized sexism, pushback, and intersection of sexism and settler colonialism. Adopting an intersectional feminist approach, I argue that the politics of naming routes cannot be divorced from a settler-colonial logic that has long used (re)naming land as a strategy for nation-building. I suggest incorporating decolonial theories into outdoor rock climbing to create more inclusive leisure environments.

摘要

在户外攀岩中，第一个成功攀登并设置路线的人——首攀者——为其取名。一些登山者发布带有歧视性的路线名称。本文探讨了一组攀岩女性如何协商厌恶女性的路线名称。我定性分析了 17 次个人半结构化访谈和四次焦点小组访谈，并出现了六个主题：挫折、无助、排斥、内化的性别歧视、反抗以及性别歧视与定居者殖民主义的交集。采用交叉女权主义方法，我认为命名路线的政治不能脱离长期以来使用（重新）命名土地作为国家建设战略的定居者殖民逻辑。