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Biography I became a geographer after my interest in feminist theory prompted me to enrol in Susan Hanson’s feminist geography course while pursuing a Master’s at Clark University in Community Development. Compelled by the political possibilities of radical engagements with the concepts of space, place and scale (the work of Dorreen Massey, Laura Pulido, Gerry Pratt, and David Harvey in particular caught my attention), I chose to pursue a dual PhD in Geography and Women’s Studies at Penn State. I joined the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at Glasgow in 2010 as a Research Associate in Urban Political Economy. While Geography is far from perfect as a discipline, I remain thoroughly exhilarated by the politically-engaged, normative, praxis-oriented and social justice seeking work that characterizes a not unsubstantial slice of the discipline. Research interests Working from the intersections of feminist theory, political economy, and urban theory, my research is designed to draw on what I see as a productive tension between structural political economy and post-structural conceptions of agency and politics. This has entailed an engagement with Regulation Theory’s political economic analyses of urban processes and neoliberal urban governance, as well as an effort to substantially enrich and expand the conception of “the political” that often characterizes that work. I am particularly interested in theorizing the political possibilities of various modes of engagement in urban struggles. Most recently, this has entailed extensive field work in coastal Missisippi in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Through ethnographic methods, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews, I analyze the way in which race, culture, politics, and economics intersect to shape urban space, and in particular, the multiple ways in which neoliberal policies and redevelopment strategies are contested politically. Recent publications McCarthy, James and Kate Driscoll Derickson (in press) “Manufacturing consent for engineering earth: social dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig” in Engineering Earth: The impacts of megaengineering projects Stan Brunn and Andy Wood, eds. The Netherlands: Springer Science and Business Media. Laliberte, Nicole, Kate Driscoll Derickson, and Lorraine Dowler. 2010. “Advances in Feminist Thought: Geography’s Contribution to International Studies” in Political Geography: International Studies Compendium Colin Fint, ed. Malden: Blackwell. Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2009. “Gendered, Material and Partial Knowledges: A feminist critique of neighborhood level indicator systems” Environment and Planning A 41(4) 896-910. Derickson, Kate Driscoll. 2009. “Toward a non-totalizing critique of capitalism” Geographical Bulletin 50(1) 3-15. |
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