Abstract

This article offers an autoethnographic account of developing a multidisciplinary feminist local history project. In particular it focuses on the construction and delivery of a walking tour celebrating ‘Manchester’s Modernist Heroines’. These were ten women from Greater Manchester, UK, who achieved professional success in the twentieth century. The author evokes ideas of psychogeography and the dérive to produce a tour with collaboration, accessibility and public participation at the heart of its ethos. However the notion of a psychogeographical heritage tour is an oxymoron as the praxis resists essentialist notions of time and space. Additionally, the women featured did not have blue plaques, stately homes or any of the conventional badges of achievement. The focus instead was on resonances, echoes, connections and traces in the everyday landscape. Some, such as Marie Stopes, have a complex and deeply problematic legacy. Geographer Doreen Massey, born in Manchester and one of the subjects, provided inspiration with her progressive vision of space as a simultaneity of ‘stories-so-far.’ The traditional heritage tour became reconfigured as something overtly and proudly performative, participatory and fluid. The route and location contributions are anchored in is mutable, with content evolving as new stories are shared. The walk incorporates education, conversation, art and provocation. This is Feminist public pedagogy which uses the pedestrian to examine issues around commemoration, memory, gender and the right to the city. It utilises embodied creative walking methods to uncover the power dynamics that shape Manchester and offer an alternative way to view them.

摘要

本文提供了一个关于发展多学科女权主义地方历史项目的自民族志描述。特别是它专注于庆祝“曼彻斯特的现代主义女英雄”的徒步旅行的建设和交付。这些是来自英国大曼彻斯特的十位女性，她们在 20 世纪取得了职业上的成功。作者唤起了心理地理学和衍生的想法，以合作、可访问性和公众参与为其精神的核心进行巡回演出。然而，心理地理遗产之旅的概念是矛盾的，因为实践抵制时间和空间的本质主义概念。此外，这些女性没有蓝色的牌匾、庄严的住宅或任何传统的成就徽章。相反，重点是共振，回声，日常景观中的联系和痕迹。有些人，比如玛丽斯特普斯，有着复杂而严重的问题遗产。地理学家多琳·梅西（Doreen Massey）出生于曼彻斯特，是研究对象之一，她将空间的进步愿景视为“迄今为止的故事”的同时性，为她提供了灵感。传统的遗产之旅被重新配置为一种公开而自豪的表演性、参与性和流动性。锚定的路线和位置贡献是可变的，内容随着新故事的分享而发展。步行结合了教育、对话、艺术和挑衅。这是女权主义的公共教育学，它利用行人来研究关于纪念、记忆、性别和城市权的问题。