Social Sciences
"Uncovering Conceptual Practices: Bringing into 'Lived Consciousness' Feminists' Activities on the Toronto Police Sexual Assault Audit and the Follow-up Sexual Assault Audit Committee" in Canadian Women Studies, 28 (1)
[Sarah Ahmed], in her discussion of how documents get taken up as signs of good performance and as expressions of "commitment," found that those responsible for compliance in the institution often "perform an image of themselves as doing a good job" (2007: 594). She refers to this as "doing the document" instead of "doing the […]
"Reflections on mentoring as decolonial, transnational, feminist praxis" in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 25 (2), 1-18
In this article we reflect on questions of mentorship for racialized scholars within the increasingly neoliberal academic landscapes that scholars currently navigate. We do this by revisiting one of the earliest articles on mentoring from a feminist perspective, and reflecting on the extent to which mentorship requirements have changed as the number and composition of […]
"Insider or outsider, both or neither: some dilemmas of interviewing in a cross-cultural setting" in Geoforum 30 (4), 337-350
This paper contributes to the growing literature on methods and techniques for conducting qualitative research in economic geography, as well as to recent feminist debates on the impact that relationships of power between researchers and their informants have on the rigor of the findings of qualitative research. Drawing upon my own experiences whilst conducting interviews […]
"Cultivating an ethic of wellness in geography" in Canadian Geographer
Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, the first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. In this introduction […]
"Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come" in Geoforum 118 (4), 150-158
What can historical and contemporary labour geographies from the Caribbean tell us about social reproduction in a world of automation, precarity and free market fundamentalism? I argue in this article that juxtaposing 18th–19th century Caribbean labour geographies, with the free-market fundamentalisms, labour eradicating technologies and environmental disasters that define 21st century labour struggles, offers ways […]
Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black
The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In daring to shift from margin to centre, the book’s contributors confront two overlapping themes. […]
The Rhizome of Blackness: A critical ethnography of Hip-Hop culture, language, identity and the politics of becoming
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a «social imaginary» where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and […]