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Kate Swanson

Kate Swanson
  • About
  • Research
    • Borders, migration, and asylum
    • Geographies of children and youth
    • Urban studies, policing, and informal economies
    • Emotional geographies, care ethics, and feminist research
    • Higher education and learning
  • Publications
  • Teaching
    • Graduate Students
  • PAR Lab
  • Media
  • Contact

Archives: Publications

Wood, Lydia, David Kamper and Kate Swanson. 2018. Spaces of hope? Youth perspectives on health and wellness in Indigenous communities.

Health and Place. 50: 137-145.

Swanson, Kate. 2018. From New York to Ecuador and back again: Transnational journeys of policies and people.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108: 390-398.

Pearson, Elliot, Kate Swanson and Thomas Herman. 2017. A Study of Young People’s Geographical Knowledge, Global Awareness, and Attitudes Toward Geography Education. San Diego: Department of Geography, San Diego State University and California Geographic Alliance.

Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.

Swanson, Kate, Richard Caslow and Leilani Konrad. 2017. Perceptions & Knowledge of Geography on an American College Campus. San Diego: Department of Geography, San Diego State University.

Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.

Mackie, Peter, Kate Swanson and Ryan Goode. 2017.  Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America.

Pages 63-76 in Rebel Streets, Informal Economies and the Law. A. Brown (Ed). London: Routledge.

Conners, Erin E., Kate Swanson, Sonia Morales Miranda, Carmen Fernández Casanueva, Valerie Mercer, Kimberly Brouwer. 2017. 

HIV risk behaviors and correlates of inconsistent condom use among substance using Central American migrants. AIDS and Behavior.  21: 2033-2045.

Swanson, Kate and Thomas Herman. 2017. Geography is global.

Social Studies Review. 55: 31-34.

Wood, Lydia, Stuart Aitken and Kate Swanson. 2016.  Young people’s rights to recreate spaces and reimagine borders.

Pages 1-22 in Geographies of Children and Young People. Space, Landscape, and Environment. Karen Nairn, Peter Kraftl, and Tracey Skelton (Eds.). London: Springer.

Swanson, Kate. 2016. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.

Pages 189-203 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 3rd edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Swanson, Kate and Rebecca M. Torres. 2016. Child migration and transnationalized violence in Central and North America.

Journal of Latin American Geography. 15: 23-48. * JLAG Most Downloaded in 2017

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Areas of Research

  • Borders, migration, and asylum
  • Geographies of children and youth
  • Urban studies, policing, and informal economies
  • Emotional geographies, care ethics, and feminist research
  • Higher education and learning

Contact

Email: kate.swanson@dal.ca

Department of International Development Studies,
Marion McCain Building,
6135 University Ave.,
Dalhousie University,
PO Box 15000,
Halifax, NS, Canada,
B3H 4R2

Office location:
3037 Marion McCain Building

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  • About
  • Research
    • Borders, migration, and asylum
    • Geographies of children and youth
    • Urban studies, policing, and informal economies
    • Emotional geographies, care ethics, and feminist research
    • Higher education and learning
  • Publications
  • Teaching
    • Graduate Students
  • PAR Lab
  • Media
  • Contact