Towards feminist energy geographies: A critique of masculinist core-periphery binaries

This commentary offers a brief and sympathetic critique of Ptak et al.'s (2025) argument that energy geographies is a marginal subdiscipline in human geography. While agreeing with the authors’ positioning of human geography as ‘an integrative and convergent field’, I question the notion of a centre-periphery binary within the discipline. I argue in favour of a feminist energy geographies approach by foregrounding the diverse forms of inter- and intra-disciplinary knowledge production. The commentary contends that masculinist framings of core-periphery can act as objects of power and marginalisation.

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Dialogues in Human Geography
Published
2025-08-10
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https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251364986
Primary Topic
Geographies of human-animal interactions
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Towards feminist energy geographies: A critique of masculinist core-periphery binaries

Saška Petrova
Dialogues in Human Geography
Geographies of human-animal interactions
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Towards feminist energy geographies: A critique of masculinist core-periphery binaries

Saška Petrova
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Abstract

This commentary offers a brief and sympathetic critique of Ptak et al.'s (2025) argument that energy geographies is a marginal subdiscipline in human geography. While agreeing with the authors’ positioning of human geography as ‘an integrative and convergent field’, I question the notion of a centre-periphery binary within the discipline. I argue in favour of a feminist energy geographies approach by foregrounding the diverse forms of inter- and intra-disciplinary knowledge production. The commentary contends that masculinist framings of core-periphery can act as objects of power and marginalisation.

Dialogues in Human Geography
University of Manchester (GB)
UK Research and Innovation
Openalex Percentile: Top 75%
Geographies of human-animal interactions
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