Katie Mazer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Mazer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazer |
| SIGNATURE | MAZER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0921-4705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pathways to nickel mining employment among Inuit women in Nunavik, Canada and Kanak women in New Caledonia
Dump Truck Destiny
This paper considers how white, rural, working‐class men come to be seen, by employers and themselves, as a “natural fit” for mobile work in resource extraction. Examining mobility between eastern Canada and the Alberta petroleum industry, I trace longstanding racial, geographical, and gendered explanations of these workers as dependent and averse to work. I draw on interviews with employers, employment counsellors, and mobile workers, and media …
Making the Welfare State Work for Extraction
Although the welfare state has been widely theorized as a mechanism for the management of capitalist crisis, these analyses have often pivoted on the problem of social regulation. Drawing on the case of Canadian resource extraction, this article builds on these theories by interrogating the geography of welfare state regulation. Analyzing the history of the Canadian welfare state in relation to specific historical geographies of extraction, I arg…
The Social Space of Gentrification
In this paper we take up the Lefebvrean challenge to disrupt the ideological mediation of social space and join it with Peter Marcuse's powerful conceptualization of displacement pressure as a call to probe the everyday life of gentrifying urban neighbourhoods. The people whose everyday lives we hope to access, however partially, are those at risk of displacement-specifically rooming-house tenants and proprietors of commercial shops providing aff…
The Social Space of Gentrification
In this paper we take up the Lefebvrean challenge to disrupt the ideological mediation of social space and join it with Peter Marcuse's powerful conceptualization of displacement pressure as a call to probe the everyday life of gentrifying urban neighbourhoods. The people whose everyday lives we hope to access, however partially, are those at risk of displacement-specifically rooming-house tenants and proprietors of commercial shops providing aff…
Pathways to nickel mining employment among Inuit women in Nunavik, Canada and Kanak women in New Caledonia
Dump Truck Destiny
This paper considers how white, rural, working‐class men come to be seen, by employers and themselves, as a “natural fit” for mobile work in resource extraction. Examining mobility between eastern Canada and the Alberta petroleum industry, I trace longstanding racial, geographical, and gendered explanations of these workers as dependent and averse to work. I draw on interviews with employers, employment counsellors, and mobile workers, and media …
Making the Welfare State Work for Extraction
Although the welfare state has been widely theorized as a mechanism for the management of capitalist crisis, these analyses have often pivoted on the problem of social regulation. Drawing on the case of Canadian resource extraction, this article builds on these theories by interrogating the geography of welfare state regulation. Analyzing the history of the Canadian welfare state in relation to specific historical geographies of extraction, I arg…
The Social Space of Gentrification
In this paper we take up the Lefebvrean challenge to disrupt the ideological mediation of social space and join it with Peter Marcuse's powerful conceptualization of displacement pressure as a call to probe the everyday life of gentrifying urban neighbourhoods. The people whose everyday lives we hope to access, however partially, are those at risk of displacement-specifically rooming-house tenants and proprietors of commercial shops providing aff…
Making the Welfare State Work for Extraction
Although the welfare state has been widely theorized as a mechanism for the management of capitalist crisis, these analyses have often pivoted on the problem of social regulation. Drawing on the case of Canadian resource extraction, this article builds on these theories by interrogating the geography of welfare state regulation. Analyzing the history of the Canadian welfare state in relation to specific historical geographies of extraction, I arg…
Pathways to nickel mining employment among Inuit women in Nunavik, Canada and Kanak women in New Caledonia
Dump Truck Destiny
This paper considers how white, rural, working‐class men come to be seen, by employers and themselves, as a “natural fit” for mobile work in resource extraction. Examining mobility between eastern Canada and the Alberta petroleum industry, I trace longstanding racial, geographical, and gendered explanations of these workers as dependent and averse to work. I draw on interviews with employers, employment counsellors, and mobile workers, and media …
Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mining and Resource Management (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)