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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

Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011.

Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.

Swanson, Kate. 2010. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.

Children’s Geographies. 8: 429-436.

Shubin, Sergei and Swanson, Kate. 2010. “I’m an imaginary figure:” unravelling the mobility and exclusion of Scottish Gypsy Travellers.

Geoforum. 41: 919-929.

Cumbers, Andy, Gesa Helms and Kate Swanson. 2010. Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

42:46-73. *Reprinted in March 2012 in a virtual and open-access Antipode special issue titled, “The Protester.”

Swanson, Kate. 2010. Pidiendo Caridad en la Ciudad: Mujeres y Niños Indígenas en las Calles de Ecuador. 

Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Abya Yala.

Swanson, Kate. 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador’s Urban Spaces.

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Philo, Chris and Kate Swanson. 2008. Afterword: global portraits and local snapshots.

Pages 193-207 in C. Jeffrey and J. Dyson (eds.), Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2008. Witches, children and Kiva-the-research dog: striking problems encountered in the field. 

Area. 40: 55-64.

Swanson, Kate. 2007. “Bad mothers” and “delinquent children”: unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes.

Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 14: 703-720.

Swanson, Kate. 2007. Revanchist urbanism heads south: the regulation of Indigenous beggars and street vendors in Ecuador.

Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 39: 708-728.

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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