Eden Kinkaid
Biographic Data
| ID | 105483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eden Kinkaid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eden |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinkaid |
| SIGNATURE | KINKAID E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0793-2049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Settler colonial space-time and the storying of southern Arizona's foodscapes
In 2015, The City of Tucson, Arizona became recognized as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, a title that has become central to its food tourism efforts and other projects of “gastrodevelopment.” This title recognizes Tucson's unique and diverse food heritage and agricultural histories, which have been molded into a food story that has been articulated in the application to UNESCO and in local media and branding materials. This food story – a …
Mischief, care, and heterotopia: Reflections on the potentials of zines in geography’s spaces
In 2024, the Geography Zine Organizing Network (GEOZONe) was formed to collect, archive, and distribute zines engaging geographic thought and activism within and beyond the boundaries of disciplinary geography. Zines – self-published booklets emerging from subcultural and activist communities – have much to offer cultural geography as a medium of geographic theory, communication, and praxis. In this brief article, we describe how zines have been …
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography, looking for ways to represent both the forces of consolidation and resistance in telling the history of our discipline. Last considers how we might “re-expand” the history of the discipline through the teaching of countergeographies. Sundberg argues th…
Queering feminist geography III: Calling All Allies and Accomplices
Queering feminist geography II: Working Through and Working Against Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms
Queering feminist geography IV: Toward Queer and Trans-Feminist Coalition
Queering feminist geography I: Queer/Trans Inclusion, Exclusion, and Belonging
Resisting gender fascism
In this commentary, we explore the implications of the 2024 US elections on trans lives. While we focus on the United States, we situate anti-trans politics within emerging fascist movements around the world, as the elections have impacts beyond national borders. We examine four areas of impact: the body, public space, legal geographies and mobilities. Trans healthcare and bodily autonomy are under attack in a myriad of legal and legislative venu…
Consuming the creative city: Gastrodevelopment in a Unesco creative city of gastronomy
Scholars have recently coined the term "gastrodevelopment" to refer to the increasingly visible relationships between food, food culture, and processes of urban development. As a paradigm, gastrodevelopment is premised on the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. In this article, drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona – the United States' first UNESCO City of Gastronomy – we use the lens of gastrodevel…
Whose geography, whose future? Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction
In this commentary, responding to the prompt ‘re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis’, I offer some provocations to queer this question of geography's future. I begin from moments of my queer experience in and of geography, from the recurring perception that I am ‘out of time’ in the discipline: that my ‘time’ and my ‘place’ in the discipline as a trans person have yet to come. Reflecting on the origins of this perception, I …
The Stories We Tell: Challenging Exclusionary Histories of Geography in U.S. Graduate Curriculum
In this article, we examine how the exclusionary and problematic aspects of geography’s history are narrated, reproduced, and challenged in graduate education in the United States. Approaching introductory graduate courses as sites in the reproduction of geography as a discipline, we consider how these courses can either bolster or challenge problematic legacies of geography’s disciplinary history. To do so, we analyze thirty-two syllabi from gra…
Toward a Trans Ethos of Care
How do relations of care shape trans lives? What kinds of trans care can be imagined and practiced amid ongoing transphobic violence and loss? What does a trans ethos of care look like? These are some of the central questions that animate Hil Malatino's Trans Care, a collection of essays that reflect on the significance of care in trans lives. In this little yellow book, Malatino sets out to “trans” care and to reorient common and academic unders…
Positionality, post-phenomenology, and the politics of theory
The concept of positionality has long been at the heart of feminist geographic scholarship, though today it often remains unengaged within male-dominated segments of the discipline. In this article, I bring the concept of positionality to bear on one area of contemporary geographic theory, post-phenomenology, to highlight how feminist and other critical epistemological stances are rendered improbable, if not logically impossible, by the terms of …
Coming of age in a straight white man’s geography: Reflections on positionality and relationality as feminist anti-oppressive praxis
In this intervention, we consider how relational thinking about our positions and experiences can contribute to a feminist, anti-oppressive praxis in geography. Hosting a critical dialogue amongst ourselves, we collectively reflect on our experiences coming of age in a discipline marked by ongoing forms of coloniality, racism, sexism, and trans/homophobia in an attempt to find commonalities across our different identities and experiences. Drawing…
Terrorizing gender: Transgender visibility and the surveillance practices of the U.S. security state
In 2014, the cover of Time magazine announced a ‘transgender tipping point’ in America, a moment that both reflected and contributed to the growing visibility of transgender people in American poli
Christopher Mayes: Unsettling food politics: agriculture, dispossession and sovereignty in Australia
Assemblage as ethos: Conceptual genealogies and political problems
Assemblage thinking has increasingly made its way in geographic research and scholarship. Assemblage has been approached as a means of describing socio‐spatial formations, as a set of concepts used to understand their (re)production, and as an ethos animating geographic thought. In this paper, I critically reflect on the third usage, assemblage‐as‐ethos, which remains underdeveloped in assemblage geographies. Assemblage has been heralded as contr…
Is post-phenomenology a critical geography? Subjectivity and difference in post-phenomenological geographies
This article identifies two major problems within emerging formulations of ‘post-phenomenology’ in geography: its approach to the subject and its limited analytical engagement with concepts of social difference. I review these problems at length before putting post-phenomenology into conversation with another contemporary strand of phenomenological thought, critical phenomenology, which has responded to similar problems in classical phenomenology…
The Podcast-as-Method: Critical Reflections on Using Podcasts to Produce Geographic Knowledge
In this article, we consider the potentials and limitations of podcasts as a geographic research method by reflecting upon our own podcast project that focused on a graduate student unionization movement. We found that the podcast medium allowed us to approach this study in innovative ways. First, podcasts can communicate visceral elements of data through speakers' voices, potentially changing how an audience responds to the research. Second, an …
Re-encountering Lefebvre: Toward a critical phenomenology of social space
In this article, I present a critical phenomenological reworking of Lefebvre's theory of social space from the perspective of minority subjects. To do so, I identify phenomenological themes present in The Production of Space, reading it alongside Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. This reading emphasizes Lefebvre and Merleau-Ponty's shared critiques of space, their relational ontologies, and their emphasis on bodily practice. With these…
The biopolitics of feeling: Race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century
In this fascinating book, Kyla Schuller relocates the origin of modern biopolitics to the nineteenth century, before and amidst the emergence of modern discourses of sexuality and genetics. While t
At the limits of critical geography: Creative interventions into the exclusionary spaces of U.S. geography
In recent years, geographers have increasingly called for and enacted more sustained engagements between geography and the arts. This creative (re)turn represents both a renewed interest in recovering interdisciplinary practices within the history of the discipline and a desire to create space for new methods and creative approaches. This article develops in response to two areas requiring further critical engagement and development within the cr…
Rights of nature” in translation: Assemblage geographies, boundary objects, and translocal social movements
In the last 15 years, “rights of nature” as a concept and legal apparatus has spread across various sites and scales of environmental governance throughout the world. This paper examines the rights of nature phenomenon, focusing on a recent decision by the High Court of Uttarakhand, India to grant legal personhood to the Ganga (Ganges) and Yamuna rivers and associated natural entities. Arguing against “diffusionist” and “global” approaches to und…
Embodied political ecology: Sensing agrarian change in north India
Can assemblage think difference? A feminist critique of assemblage geographies
Assemblage thinking has been increasingly engaged by geographers to theoretically and empirically challenge philosophical categories and spatial imaginaries that have long been dominant in the field. Assemblage thinking presents exciting theoretical and methodological opportunities for geographers, yet its shortcomings are becoming increasingly clear. This article examines one such shortcoming: assemblage geographies’ lack of engagement with femi…
Can assemblage think difference? A feminist critique of assemblage geographies
Assemblage thinking has been increasingly engaged by geographers to theoretically and empirically challenge philosophical categories and spatial imaginaries that have long been dominant in the field. Assemblage thinking presents exciting theoretical and methodological opportunities for geographers, yet its shortcomings are becoming increasingly clear. This article examines one such shortcoming: assemblage geographies’ lack of engagement with femi…
Re-encountering Lefebvre: Toward a critical phenomenology of social space
In this article, I present a critical phenomenological reworking of Lefebvre's theory of social space from the perspective of minority subjects. To do so, I identify phenomenological themes present in The Production of Space, reading it alongside Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. This reading emphasizes Lefebvre and Merleau-Ponty's shared critiques of space, their relational ontologies, and their emphasis on bodily practice. With these…
Is post-phenomenology a critical geography? Subjectivity and difference in post-phenomenological geographies
This article identifies two major problems within emerging formulations of ‘post-phenomenology’ in geography: its approach to the subject and its limited analytical engagement with concepts of social difference. I review these problems at length before putting post-phenomenology into conversation with another contemporary strand of phenomenological thought, critical phenomenology, which has responded to similar problems in classical phenomenology…
Rights of nature” in translation: Assemblage geographies, boundary objects, and translocal social movements
In the last 15 years, “rights of nature” as a concept and legal apparatus has spread across various sites and scales of environmental governance throughout the world. This paper examines the rights of nature phenomenon, focusing on a recent decision by the High Court of Uttarakhand, India to grant legal personhood to the Ganga (Ganges) and Yamuna rivers and associated natural entities. Arguing against “diffusionist” and “global” approaches to und…
The Podcast-as-Method: Critical Reflections on Using Podcasts to Produce Geographic Knowledge
In this article, we consider the potentials and limitations of podcasts as a geographic research method by reflecting upon our own podcast project that focused on a graduate student unionization movement. We found that the podcast medium allowed us to approach this study in innovative ways. First, podcasts can communicate visceral elements of data through speakers' voices, potentially changing how an audience responds to the research. Second, an …
Embodied political ecology: Sensing agrarian change in north India
Coming of age in a straight white man’s geography: Reflections on positionality and relationality as feminist anti-oppressive praxis
In this intervention, we consider how relational thinking about our positions and experiences can contribute to a feminist, anti-oppressive praxis in geography. Hosting a critical dialogue amongst ourselves, we collectively reflect on our experiences coming of age in a discipline marked by ongoing forms of coloniality, racism, sexism, and trans/homophobia in an attempt to find commonalities across our different identities and experiences. Drawing…
Whose geography, whose future? Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction
In this commentary, responding to the prompt ‘re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis’, I offer some provocations to queer this question of geography's future. I begin from moments of my queer experience in and of geography, from the recurring perception that I am ‘out of time’ in the discipline: that my ‘time’ and my ‘place’ in the discipline as a trans person have yet to come. Reflecting on the origins of this perception, I …
Assemblage as ethos: Conceptual genealogies and political problems
Assemblage thinking has increasingly made its way in geographic research and scholarship. Assemblage has been approached as a means of describing socio‐spatial formations, as a set of concepts used to understand their (re)production, and as an ethos animating geographic thought. In this paper, I critically reflect on the third usage, assemblage‐as‐ethos, which remains underdeveloped in assemblage geographies. Assemblage has been heralded as contr…
Positionality, post-phenomenology, and the politics of theory
The concept of positionality has long been at the heart of feminist geographic scholarship, though today it often remains unengaged within male-dominated segments of the discipline. In this article, I bring the concept of positionality to bear on one area of contemporary geographic theory, post-phenomenology, to highlight how feminist and other critical epistemological stances are rendered improbable, if not logically impossible, by the terms of …
At the limits of critical geography: Creative interventions into the exclusionary spaces of U.S. geography
In recent years, geographers have increasingly called for and enacted more sustained engagements between geography and the arts. This creative (re)turn represents both a renewed interest in recovering interdisciplinary practices within the history of the discipline and a desire to create space for new methods and creative approaches. This article develops in response to two areas requiring further critical engagement and development within the cr…
The Stories We Tell: Challenging Exclusionary Histories of Geography in U.S. Graduate Curriculum
In this article, we examine how the exclusionary and problematic aspects of geography’s history are narrated, reproduced, and challenged in graduate education in the United States. Approaching introductory graduate courses as sites in the reproduction of geography as a discipline, we consider how these courses can either bolster or challenge problematic legacies of geography’s disciplinary history. To do so, we analyze thirty-two syllabi from gra…
Resisting gender fascism
In this commentary, we explore the implications of the 2024 US elections on trans lives. While we focus on the United States, we situate anti-trans politics within emerging fascist movements around the world, as the elections have impacts beyond national borders. We examine four areas of impact: the body, public space, legal geographies and mobilities. Trans healthcare and bodily autonomy are under attack in a myriad of legal and legislative venu…
Experimenting with creative geographic methods in The Critical Futures Visual Archive
Responding to calls within geography to engage creative methodologies and practices, this article highlights works from a critical-creative geography exhibit, The Critical Futures Visual Archive, which formed part of a critical geographies conference in Fall 2017. The exhibit included creative works by 18 academics, artists, and activists. Contributors engaged multiple media and geographic themes to reflect on the place of creative and visual met…
The biopolitics of feeling: Race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century
In this fascinating book, Kyla Schuller relocates the origin of modern biopolitics to the nineteenth century, before and amidst the emergence of modern discourses of sexuality and genetics. While t
En)Vision(ing) Otherwise: Queering Visuality and Space in Lefebvre’s Production
This article develops and extends parallels between Lefebvre’s The Production of Space and contemporary queer thought, drawing out their shared themes of visuality, subjectivity, and differential space. For Lefebvre, the circuits producing vision, subjectivity, and space are inescapably ideological and suspect: The visual obscures social relations, dominates space, and fragments subjectivity. Yet there is still something to be said about the tran…
Queering feminist geography II: Working Through and Working Against Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms
Consuming the creative city: Gastrodevelopment in a Unesco creative city of gastronomy
Scholars have recently coined the term "gastrodevelopment" to refer to the increasingly visible relationships between food, food culture, and processes of urban development. As a paradigm, gastrodevelopment is premised on the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. In this article, drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona – the United States' first UNESCO City of Gastronomy – we use the lens of gastrodevel…
Terrorizing gender: Transgender visibility and the surveillance practices of the U.S. security state
In 2014, the cover of Time magazine announced a ‘transgender tipping point’ in America, a moment that both reflected and contributed to the growing visibility of transgender people in American poli
En)Vision(ing) Otherwise: Queering Visuality and Space in Lefebvre’s Production
This article develops and extends parallels between Lefebvre’s The Production of Space and contemporary queer thought, drawing out their shared themes of visuality, subjectivity, and differential space. For Lefebvre, the circuits producing vision, subjectivity, and space are inescapably ideological and suspect: The visual obscures social relations, dominates space, and fragments subjectivity. Yet there is still something to be said about the tran…
The right to maim: Debility, capacity, disability
What connects public protest of police violence in Ferguson, Missouri with resistance to the occupation of Palestine? Which institutional genealogies can draw disability rights, trans experience, a
The biopolitics of feeling: Race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century
In this fascinating book, Kyla Schuller relocates the origin of modern biopolitics to the nineteenth century, before and amidst the emergence of modern discourses of sexuality and genetics. While t
At the limits of critical geography: Creative interventions into the exclusionary spaces of U.S. geography
In recent years, geographers have increasingly called for and enacted more sustained engagements between geography and the arts. This creative (re)turn represents both a renewed interest in recovering interdisciplinary practices within the history of the discipline and a desire to create space for new methods and creative approaches. This article develops in response to two areas requiring further critical engagement and development within the cr…
Rights of nature” in translation: Assemblage geographies, boundary objects, and translocal social movements
In the last 15 years, “rights of nature” as a concept and legal apparatus has spread across various sites and scales of environmental governance throughout the world. This paper examines the rights of nature phenomenon, focusing on a recent decision by the High Court of Uttarakhand, India to grant legal personhood to the Ganga (Ganges) and Yamuna rivers and associated natural entities. Arguing against “diffusionist” and “global” approaches to und…
Embodied political ecology: Sensing agrarian change in north India
Can assemblage think difference? A feminist critique of assemblage geographies
Assemblage thinking has been increasingly engaged by geographers to theoretically and empirically challenge philosophical categories and spatial imaginaries that have long been dominant in the field. Assemblage thinking presents exciting theoretical and methodological opportunities for geographers, yet its shortcomings are becoming increasingly clear. This article examines one such shortcoming: assemblage geographies’ lack of engagement with femi…
Experimenting with creative geographic methods in The Critical Futures Visual Archive
Responding to calls within geography to engage creative methodologies and practices, this article highlights works from a critical-creative geography exhibit, The Critical Futures Visual Archive, which formed part of a critical geographies conference in Fall 2017. The exhibit included creative works by 18 academics, artists, and activists. Contributors engaged multiple media and geographic themes to reflect on the place of creative and visual met…
Terrorizing gender: Transgender visibility and the surveillance practices of the U.S. security state
In 2014, the cover of Time magazine announced a ‘transgender tipping point’ in America, a moment that both reflected and contributed to the growing visibility of transgender people in American poli
Christopher Mayes: Unsettling food politics: agriculture, dispossession and sovereignty in Australia
Assemblage as ethos: Conceptual genealogies and political problems
Assemblage thinking has increasingly made its way in geographic research and scholarship. Assemblage has been approached as a means of describing socio‐spatial formations, as a set of concepts used to understand their (re)production, and as an ethos animating geographic thought. In this paper, I critically reflect on the third usage, assemblage‐as‐ethos, which remains underdeveloped in assemblage geographies. Assemblage has been heralded as contr…
Is post-phenomenology a critical geography? Subjectivity and difference in post-phenomenological geographies
This article identifies two major problems within emerging formulations of ‘post-phenomenology’ in geography: its approach to the subject and its limited analytical engagement with concepts of social difference. I review these problems at length before putting post-phenomenology into conversation with another contemporary strand of phenomenological thought, critical phenomenology, which has responded to similar problems in classical phenomenology…
The Podcast-as-Method: Critical Reflections on Using Podcasts to Produce Geographic Knowledge
In this article, we consider the potentials and limitations of podcasts as a geographic research method by reflecting upon our own podcast project that focused on a graduate student unionization movement. We found that the podcast medium allowed us to approach this study in innovative ways. First, podcasts can communicate visceral elements of data through speakers' voices, potentially changing how an audience responds to the research. Second, an …
Re-encountering Lefebvre: Toward a critical phenomenology of social space
In this article, I present a critical phenomenological reworking of Lefebvre's theory of social space from the perspective of minority subjects. To do so, I identify phenomenological themes present in The Production of Space, reading it alongside Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. This reading emphasizes Lefebvre and Merleau-Ponty's shared critiques of space, their relational ontologies, and their emphasis on bodily practice. With these…
Toward a Trans Ethos of Care
How do relations of care shape trans lives? What kinds of trans care can be imagined and practiced amid ongoing transphobic violence and loss? What does a trans ethos of care look like? These are some of the central questions that animate Hil Malatino's Trans Care, a collection of essays that reflect on the significance of care in trans lives. In this little yellow book, Malatino sets out to “trans” care and to reorient common and academic unders…
Positionality, post-phenomenology, and the politics of theory
The concept of positionality has long been at the heart of feminist geographic scholarship, though today it often remains unengaged within male-dominated segments of the discipline. In this article, I bring the concept of positionality to bear on one area of contemporary geographic theory, post-phenomenology, to highlight how feminist and other critical epistemological stances are rendered improbable, if not logically impossible, by the terms of …
Coming of age in a straight white man’s geography: Reflections on positionality and relationality as feminist anti-oppressive praxis
In this intervention, we consider how relational thinking about our positions and experiences can contribute to a feminist, anti-oppressive praxis in geography. Hosting a critical dialogue amongst ourselves, we collectively reflect on our experiences coming of age in a discipline marked by ongoing forms of coloniality, racism, sexism, and trans/homophobia in an attempt to find commonalities across our different identities and experiences. Drawing…
The Stories We Tell: Challenging Exclusionary Histories of Geography in U.S. Graduate Curriculum
In this article, we examine how the exclusionary and problematic aspects of geography’s history are narrated, reproduced, and challenged in graduate education in the United States. Approaching introductory graduate courses as sites in the reproduction of geography as a discipline, we consider how these courses can either bolster or challenge problematic legacies of geography’s disciplinary history. To do so, we analyze thirty-two syllabi from gra…
Whose geography, whose future? Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction
In this commentary, responding to the prompt ‘re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis’, I offer some provocations to queer this question of geography's future. I begin from moments of my queer experience in and of geography, from the recurring perception that I am ‘out of time’ in the discipline: that my ‘time’ and my ‘place’ in the discipline as a trans person have yet to come. Reflecting on the origins of this perception, I …
Consuming the creative city: Gastrodevelopment in a Unesco creative city of gastronomy
Scholars have recently coined the term "gastrodevelopment" to refer to the increasingly visible relationships between food, food culture, and processes of urban development. As a paradigm, gastrodevelopment is premised on the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. In this article, drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona – the United States' first UNESCO City of Gastronomy – we use the lens of gastrodevel…
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography, looking for ways to represent both the forces of consolidation and resistance in telling the history of our discipline. Last considers how we might “re-expand” the history of the discipline through the teaching of countergeographies. Sundberg argues th…
Queering feminist geography III: Calling All Allies and Accomplices
Queering feminist geography II: Working Through and Working Against Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms
Queering feminist geography IV: Toward Queer and Trans-Feminist Coalition
Queering feminist geography I: Queer/Trans Inclusion, Exclusion, and Belonging
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