Karen M Morin
Biographic Data
| ID | 125201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen M Morin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Morin |
| SIGNATURE | MORIN K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9850-9801 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Film Review
Historical geographies
In July 2020 the Journal of Historical Geography published an editorial marking our commitment to a decolonial ethos and praxis. We committed to this not only in our empirical or theoretical interests, but in our functioning as a journal. It was noted in the next editorial that we had, to date, failed to represent the international, multilingual nature of historical geography communities. As part of the continuation of this task, and to mark the …
The Journal of Historical Geography at 50
Prologue
As a scholar of American West history and geography I have always been attuned – or so I thought – to the many actors and agents who encountered one another on the western U.S. frontier in the 19th century – among them Native peoples, escaped slaves, White settlers, farmers and miners, tourists and travelers, Army recruits, and colonial bureaucrats. One book that informed my early research and teaching on the interactions of these groups was Robe…
Laboring prisoners, laboring animals
This chapter focuses on the respective oppressions and exploitations and their accompanying carceral logics, taking inspiration from scholars who have studied the similarities in accumulation strategies, commodifications of life, and devaluations of labor across human prisoner and numerous nonhuman group. It also focuses on the labor of people ensnared within US carceral institutions, historically and to the present, and nonhumans laboring within…
The prison as/and laboratory
This chapter focuses on carceral relationships across the Prison Industrial Complex and the Medical Industrial Complex, particularly as they intersect within &s;Big Pharma&s;. While experimentation on prisoners occurred over most of the 20th century and continues into the 21st, it is worth recognizing the parallel structure of exploitation and killing of millions of nonhuman animals in laboratory research and experimentation in the US each year. …
Death row across species
In this chapter, the author begins with a brief overview of capital punishment in the US, highlighting the embodied experiences of prisoners living decades on death row, of inhabiting the life and death of the condemned. She focuses on conceptual categories of the carceral spaces rather than on any specific sites or institutions; offering a critical analysis of the shared carceral logics that inform their killing operations. The author highlights…
Afterword
In this chapter, the author discusses questions related to prisoner and animal rights movements, framing them within the limits of the legal and political frameworks. These, for the most part, remain intractably connected to welfarist/reformist and abolitionist prisoner and animal liberation movements that tend to be based upon ultimately unstable human–animal divisions. Acknowledging the limitations of hierarchical, taxonomic, humanist, and spec…
Wildspace
This chapter provides a discussion of &s;the cage&s; from a number of related angles, for both nonhuman and human subjects. It focuses specifically on caging subjects and practices within the zoo and zoo-like structures, although certainly further inquiry into elephant and other animal caging within the circus is warranted. Irus Braverman argues that the most crucial assumption underlying the entire institution of animal captivity is the classifi…
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. The linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality that are placed into conversation draw from a…
Carceral Space
This paper develops a framework for exploring resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. I illustrate the close linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality and captivity focusing on three types of sites and institutions: the prison execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical and other products on incarcerated humans and captive animals; and sites and institutions of exploited …
The late-modernAmerican jail
One of the most troubling aspects of current trends inAmerican mass incarceration is the extent to which 'criminality' is produced within prison walls, primarily in the form of inmate-inmate or inmate-staff assaults. Most methods of prison or jail control have the adverse, and perverse, effect of increasing inmates' levels of fear, terror, and ultimately violence - with stabbings, beatings, and other types of assaults common occurrences. The desi…
Wildspace
This chapter brings a discussion of 'the cage' from a number of related angles for both human and nonhuman subjects and spaces. Comparisons between humans confined in maximum security conditions in prisons and jails, and nonhuman animals confined in cages in zoos and other zoo-like structures, offer a number of opportunities to study the relative histories, practices, experiences, and politics of caging. The chapter explores and compares the move…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
"This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spac…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher
Security Here is Not Safe
The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer the country's first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program of readjustment. These spati…
Men's Modesty, Religion, and the State
This article examines religious practices in the United States, which govern modesty and other dress norms for men. I focus both on the spaces within which they most collide with regulatory regimes of the state and the legal implications of these norms, particularly for observant Muslim men. Undergirding the research are those 'gender equality' claims made by many religious adherents, that men are required to maintain proper modesty norms just as…
Geographical literacies and their publics
Historical geography in Prague
Paradigm Dramas in American Geography
That my book can be read in many different ways and generate so many questions and debates is probably the first thing to notice about the commentaries collected here. I do not think this is a bad thing, in and of itself. Hopefully our scholarship does provoke and challenge ways of thinking, not just about the discipline of geography but about ways of thinking in general. We all read into books what we are looking for, based on the questions we a…
Nineteenth-Century Geographies
Book Review| January 01 2006 Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American CenturyMichie, Helena; Thomas, Ronald R. Karen M. Morin Karen M. Morin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (1-2): 178–181. https://doi.org/10.2307/2565…
Embodying Tropicalities
Travels with feminist historical geography
We explore in this essay the relatively uneven "travels" of feminist historical geography within the academy in order to highlight the realized and potential intellectual productivity that can result from bringing together a feminist and historical approach to understanding place and space. We outline in what ways much of feminist geography is already historical and in what ways much of historical geography is already feminist, and then turn to a…
Postcolonialism and Native American Geographies
As the privileged daughter of the last traditional chief of the Omaha Indians, Rosalie La Flesche Farley acted as business manager for the Omaha during a period of changing land tenure and scandalous land loss. The letters I examine here discuss the spaces of colonial relations into which Rosalie was tied during the allotment, selling, and leasing of Omaha land in the late nineteenth century. While there is an acknowledged 'problem' with a postco…
Gendering resistance
(Troubling) spaces of mountains and men
In this paper we trace one pervasive expression of hegemonic New Zealand national identity that developed around the sport of mountaineering from the 1880s, culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary's historic first climb of Mount Everest in 1953. The image of the masculine mountaineering hero, developed on and around New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook, is, however, inherently unstable, and we focus on two sites of potential disruption. First, we exa…
Carceral Space
This paper develops a framework for exploring resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. I illustrate the close linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality and captivity focusing on three types of sites and institutions: the prison execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical and other products on incarcerated humans and captive animals; and sites and institutions of exploited …
British Women Travellers and Constructions of Racial Difference Across the Nineteenth‐Century American West
At a time coinciding historically with the height of the British Empire, the immigrants' rush to occupy American West lands and the wholesale removal of Native Americans onto reservations, encounters between Native peoples and British women travellers became emblematic of a whole range of socio‐spatial relationships of domination, subordination and resistance. In this paper, I examine representations of western Native Americans in the travelogues…
Travels with feminist historical geography
We explore in this essay the relatively uneven "travels" of feminist historical geography within the academy in order to highlight the realized and potential intellectual productivity that can result from bringing together a feminist and historical approach to understanding place and space. We outline in what ways much of feminist geography is already historical and in what ways much of historical geography is already feminist, and then turn to a…
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. The linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality that are placed into conversation draw from a…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher
Gender, nature, empire
Among the many British women abroad in the late nineteenth century were a number of travellers who toured the American West with a naturalist’s pen and sketchbook. California, with its giant sequoias and redwoods, scenic Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada, and the Mediterranean flora of the southern coasts, especially attracted travellers with a naturalist orientation. We examine the botanical and naturalist writings and art of two well‐known (and…
Security Here is Not Safe
The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer the country's first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program of readjustment. These spati…
Emplacing Current Trends in Feminist Historical Geography
In this article, the authors assess some of the major trends within anglophonic feminist historical geography appearing in the decade since Rose & Ogborn called for the development of an explicitly feminist approach to the subfield. In examining the 'geography' of feminist historical geographies, three main categories of scholarship are evident: a 'new' historical geography of North America, portions of which are informed by feminist theories and…
Peak Practices
Many Englishwomen explored the mountainous regions of the American West in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s, hiking and taking excursions into popular tourist destinations such as the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley. This paper examines the writings of seven women who toured these regions and published accounts of their journeys. These elite international travelers produced a complex array of gendered subjectivities in their writings. They represe…
Postcolonialism and Native American Geographies
As the privileged daughter of the last traditional chief of the Omaha Indians, Rosalie La Flesche Farley acted as business manager for the Omaha during a period of changing land tenure and scandalous land loss. The letters I examine here discuss the spaces of colonial relations into which Rosalie was tied during the allotment, selling, and leasing of Omaha land in the late nineteenth century. While there is an acknowledged 'problem' with a postco…
Gendering resistance
A 'Female Columbus' in 1887 America
As a self-styled 'female Columbus', E. Catherine Bates took a transcontinental journey across North America with a woman companion in the late 1880s and, on her return to England, published A Year in the Great Republic . This paper, following critical theory approaches to the study of travel writing, explores the ways in which several of Bates's many-layered social identities as a woman of the British e lite class came to the fore in her travel n…
The late-modernAmerican jail
One of the most troubling aspects of current trends inAmerican mass incarceration is the extent to which 'criminality' is produced within prison walls, primarily in the form of inmate-inmate or inmate-staff assaults. Most methods of prison or jail control have the adverse, and perverse, effect of increasing inmates' levels of fear, terror, and ultimately violence - with stabbings, beatings, and other types of assaults common occurrences. The desi…
Strategies of Representation, Relationship, and Resistance
During the 1870s and 1880s, several British women writers traveled bytranscontinental railroad across the American West via Salt Lake City, Utah, the capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. These women subsequently wrote books about their travels for a home audience with a taste for adventures in the American West, and particularly for accounts of Mormon plural marriage, which was sanctioned by the Church before 18…
Geographical literacies and their publics
The Gender of Geography
Postmodern Culture - Volume 5, Number 2, January 1995
A 'Female Columbus' in 1887 America
As a self-styled 'female Columbus', E. Catherine Bates took a transcontinental journey across North America with a woman companion in the late 1880s and, on her return to England, published A Year in the Great Republic . This paper, following critical theory approaches to the study of travel writing, explores the ways in which several of Bates's many-layered social identities as a woman of the British e lite class came to the fore in her travel n…
British Women Travellers and Constructions of Racial Difference Across the Nineteenth‐Century American West
At a time coinciding historically with the height of the British Empire, the immigrants' rush to occupy American West lands and the wholesale removal of Native Americans onto reservations, encounters between Native peoples and British women travellers became emblematic of a whole range of socio‐spatial relationships of domination, subordination and resistance. In this paper, I examine representations of western Native Americans in the travelogues…
Strategies of Representation, Relationship, and Resistance
During the 1870s and 1880s, several British women writers traveled bytranscontinental railroad across the American West via Salt Lake City, Utah, the capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. These women subsequently wrote books about their travels for a home audience with a taste for adventures in the American West, and particularly for accounts of Mormon plural marriage, which was sanctioned by the Church before 18…
Emplacing Current Trends in Feminist Historical Geography
In this article, the authors assess some of the major trends within anglophonic feminist historical geography appearing in the decade since Rose & Ogborn called for the development of an explicitly feminist approach to the subfield. In examining the 'geography' of feminist historical geographies, three main categories of scholarship are evident: a 'new' historical geography of North America, portions of which are informed by feminist theories and…
Peak Practices
Many Englishwomen explored the mountainous regions of the American West in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s, hiking and taking excursions into popular tourist destinations such as the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley. This paper examines the writings of seven women who toured these regions and published accounts of their journeys. These elite international travelers produced a complex array of gendered subjectivities in their writings. They represe…
Gendering resistance
Gender, nature, empire
Among the many British women abroad in the late nineteenth century were a number of travellers who toured the American West with a naturalist’s pen and sketchbook. California, with its giant sequoias and redwoods, scenic Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada, and the Mediterranean flora of the southern coasts, especially attracted travellers with a naturalist orientation. We examine the botanical and naturalist writings and art of two well‐known (and…
(Troubling) spaces of mountains and men
In this paper we trace one pervasive expression of hegemonic New Zealand national identity that developed around the sport of mountaineering from the 1880s, culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary's historic first climb of Mount Everest in 1953. The image of the masculine mountaineering hero, developed on and around New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook, is, however, inherently unstable, and we focus on two sites of potential disruption. First, we exa…
Postcolonialism and Native American Geographies
As the privileged daughter of the last traditional chief of the Omaha Indians, Rosalie La Flesche Farley acted as business manager for the Omaha during a period of changing land tenure and scandalous land loss. The letters I examine here discuss the spaces of colonial relations into which Rosalie was tied during the allotment, selling, and leasing of Omaha land in the late nineteenth century. While there is an acknowledged 'problem' with a postco…
Travels with feminist historical geography
We explore in this essay the relatively uneven "travels" of feminist historical geography within the academy in order to highlight the realized and potential intellectual productivity that can result from bringing together a feminist and historical approach to understanding place and space. We outline in what ways much of feminist geography is already historical and in what ways much of historical geography is already feminist, and then turn to a…
Embodying Tropicalities
Nineteenth-Century Geographies
Book Review| January 01 2006 Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American CenturyMichie, Helena; Thomas, Ronald R. Karen M. Morin Karen M. Morin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (1-2): 178–181. https://doi.org/10.2307/2565…
Geographical literacies and their publics
Historical geography in Prague
Paradigm Dramas in American Geography
That my book can be read in many different ways and generate so many questions and debates is probably the first thing to notice about the commentaries collected here. I do not think this is a bad thing, in and of itself. Hopefully our scholarship does provoke and challenge ways of thinking, not just about the discipline of geography but about ways of thinking in general. We all read into books what we are looking for, based on the questions we a…
Security Here is Not Safe
The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer the country's first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program of readjustment. These spati…
Men's Modesty, Religion, and the State
This article examines religious practices in the United States, which govern modesty and other dress norms for men. I focus both on the spaces within which they most collide with regulatory regimes of the state and the legal implications of these norms, particularly for observant Muslim men. Undergirding the research are those 'gender equality' claims made by many religious adherents, that men are required to maintain proper modesty norms just as…
Wildspace
This chapter brings a discussion of 'the cage' from a number of related angles for both human and nonhuman subjects and spaces. Comparisons between humans confined in maximum security conditions in prisons and jails, and nonhuman animals confined in cages in zoos and other zoo-like structures, offer a number of opportunities to study the relative histories, practices, experiences, and politics of caging. The chapter explores and compares the move…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
"This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spac…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher
Carceral Space
This paper develops a framework for exploring resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. I illustrate the close linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality and captivity focusing on three types of sites and institutions: the prison execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical and other products on incarcerated humans and captive animals; and sites and institutions of exploited …
The late-modernAmerican jail
One of the most troubling aspects of current trends inAmerican mass incarceration is the extent to which 'criminality' is produced within prison walls, primarily in the form of inmate-inmate or inmate-staff assaults. Most methods of prison or jail control have the adverse, and perverse, effect of increasing inmates' levels of fear, terror, and ultimately violence - with stabbings, beatings, and other types of assaults common occurrences. The desi…
Prologue
As a scholar of American West history and geography I have always been attuned – or so I thought – to the many actors and agents who encountered one another on the western U.S. frontier in the 19th century – among them Native peoples, escaped slaves, White settlers, farmers and miners, tourists and travelers, Army recruits, and colonial bureaucrats. One book that informed my early research and teaching on the interactions of these groups was Robe…
Laboring prisoners, laboring animals
This chapter focuses on the respective oppressions and exploitations and their accompanying carceral logics, taking inspiration from scholars who have studied the similarities in accumulation strategies, commodifications of life, and devaluations of labor across human prisoner and numerous nonhuman group. It also focuses on the labor of people ensnared within US carceral institutions, historically and to the present, and nonhumans laboring within…
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