Camilla Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 137619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilla Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5342-5350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deconstructing the concept of camp governance toward practice-based theory building on post-disaster relocation
This article posits a simple, yet provocative, argument: post-disaster relocation sites are camps characterized by “incompleteness” where multiple actors seek to govern. The discursive framing of relocation sites as long-term solutions where residents are safe from natural hazards and integrate into their new communities suggests that relocation sites are not camps. Within these camp spaces, diverse actors attempt sometimes competing, sometimes c…
“And Then Covid-19 Happened”
There is a limited but growing body of literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic faculty, scholars, and researchers in the US and around the world. In this article, we present findings of a US-based study conceived in 2020 at the onset of COVID-19. In it, we focus on ways in which the pandemic has affected the professional and personal lives of hazard and disaster researchers from the social sciences, public health, engineeri…
Digital and analogue spaces of care
COVID-19 changed the way we care. Scholars have long argued that care often requires proximity, especially when it comes to care for, with, and by older adults. With lockdowns and the imposition of widespread public health guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, such as physically distancing and sheltering-in-place, in-person care practices became increasingly difficult. Yet, unlike disasters catalyzed by hurricanes or other natural h…
Overcoming Isolation
The COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by loneliness, especially among teenagers. This study explored the coping mechanisms, activities, challenges, places visited, and sources of support that predicted teenagers feeling connected to others during COVID-19. Data come from surveys administered in the United States and Canada in summer 2022. Multivariate logistic regression showed that producing personal protective equipment, supporting siblings, …
Post-disaster mobilities of Muslim typhoon survivors
Natural hazards don’t care who you worship. However, the evacuation camps, transitional housing sites and relocation sites aimed at helping disaster survivors do. Empirically, this paper explains a puzzle in which Muslim survivors of Typhoon Sendong in the Philippines were all but absent in official post-disaster spaces of this Catholic-majority country. Based on qualitative interviews, focus groups and site visits, I identify two exclusionary me…
Confronting the Climate Crisis
Greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise despite domestic and international efforts to mitigate climate change. Recent scholarship has expressed concerns that academic careers require considerable amounts of air travel. These trends raise a series of ethical dilemmas for academic geographers who conduct international field research. Building on work on slow geographies and slow scholarship, we argue for more relational approaches and under…
Seeing like a church
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women
Not just parenting in the field
Writing in our research companions, with attention to the importance of care in our fieldwork practices, is a political act that challenges the ways geography is believed to be practised, or should be practised. Yet, researchers remain reluctant to disclose their accompanied research in scholarly writing. Given this reticence, I contend that, collectively, such accounts are political acts and not warts‐and‐all disclosures of knowledge production.…
The home-based postdoctoral mother in the neoliberal university
For centuries, women have practiced home-based work. What happens when this strategy enters the academy? What happens when a postdoctoral fellowship becomes home-based work? Using autoethnography, I examine the home-based postdoc as one option sought by gendered subjects with care obligations and limited mobility for accruing academic capital. Through telecommuting and occasional visits, aspiring academic mothers gain valuable experience at prest…
Doing and writing an accompanied feminist geography research project
Keywords: Disastersenvironmental migrationexclusionfeminist methodologygovernmentalityspace and place
A critical analysis of vulnerability
Should the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognize climate migrants
Climate change is expected to increase migration flows, especially from socially and environmentally vulnerable populations. These ‘climate migrants’ do not have any official protection under international law, which has implications for the human security of migrants. This work argues that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) can and should recognize climate migrants, and is the most relevant international framework…
Deterritorialized People in Hyperspace
Believing Women
2000). Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-259
Religious Identification in Transnational Contexts
Believing Women
2000). Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-259
A critical analysis of vulnerability
Deterritorialized People in Hyperspace
Religious Identification in Transnational Contexts
Seeing like a church
Deconstructing the concept of camp governance toward practice-based theory building on post-disaster relocation
This article posits a simple, yet provocative, argument: post-disaster relocation sites are camps characterized by “incompleteness” where multiple actors seek to govern. The discursive framing of relocation sites as long-term solutions where residents are safe from natural hazards and integrate into their new communities suggests that relocation sites are not camps. Within these camp spaces, diverse actors attempt sometimes competing, sometimes c…
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women
The home-based postdoctoral mother in the neoliberal university
For centuries, women have practiced home-based work. What happens when this strategy enters the academy? What happens when a postdoctoral fellowship becomes home-based work? Using autoethnography, I examine the home-based postdoc as one option sought by gendered subjects with care obligations and limited mobility for accruing academic capital. Through telecommuting and occasional visits, aspiring academic mothers gain valuable experience at prest…
Religious Identification in Transnational Contexts
Believing Women
2000). Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 243-259
Deterritorialized People in Hyperspace
Should the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognize climate migrants
Climate change is expected to increase migration flows, especially from socially and environmentally vulnerable populations. These ‘climate migrants’ do not have any official protection under international law, which has implications for the human security of migrants. This work argues that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) can and should recognize climate migrants, and is the most relevant international framework…
A critical analysis of vulnerability
Doing and writing an accompanied feminist geography research project
Keywords: Disastersenvironmental migrationexclusionfeminist methodologygovernmentalityspace and place
Not just parenting in the field
Writing in our research companions, with attention to the importance of care in our fieldwork practices, is a political act that challenges the ways geography is believed to be practised, or should be practised. Yet, researchers remain reluctant to disclose their accompanied research in scholarly writing. Given this reticence, I contend that, collectively, such accounts are political acts and not warts‐and‐all disclosures of knowledge production.…
The home-based postdoctoral mother in the neoliberal university
For centuries, women have practiced home-based work. What happens when this strategy enters the academy? What happens when a postdoctoral fellowship becomes home-based work? Using autoethnography, I examine the home-based postdoc as one option sought by gendered subjects with care obligations and limited mobility for accruing academic capital. Through telecommuting and occasional visits, aspiring academic mothers gain valuable experience at prest…
Confronting the Climate Crisis
Greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise despite domestic and international efforts to mitigate climate change. Recent scholarship has expressed concerns that academic careers require considerable amounts of air travel. These trends raise a series of ethical dilemmas for academic geographers who conduct international field research. Building on work on slow geographies and slow scholarship, we argue for more relational approaches and under…
Seeing like a church
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women
Overcoming Isolation
The COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by loneliness, especially among teenagers. This study explored the coping mechanisms, activities, challenges, places visited, and sources of support that predicted teenagers feeling connected to others during COVID-19. Data come from surveys administered in the United States and Canada in summer 2022. Multivariate logistic regression showed that producing personal protective equipment, supporting siblings, …
Post-disaster mobilities of Muslim typhoon survivors
Natural hazards don’t care who you worship. However, the evacuation camps, transitional housing sites and relocation sites aimed at helping disaster survivors do. Empirically, this paper explains a puzzle in which Muslim survivors of Typhoon Sendong in the Philippines were all but absent in official post-disaster spaces of this Catholic-majority country. Based on qualitative interviews, focus groups and site visits, I identify two exclusionary me…
“And Then Covid-19 Happened”
There is a limited but growing body of literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic faculty, scholars, and researchers in the US and around the world. In this article, we present findings of a US-based study conceived in 2020 at the onset of COVID-19. In it, we focus on ways in which the pandemic has affected the professional and personal lives of hazard and disaster researchers from the social sciences, public health, engineeri…
Digital and analogue spaces of care
COVID-19 changed the way we care. Scholars have long argued that care often requires proximity, especially when it comes to care for, with, and by older adults. With lockdowns and the imposition of widespread public health guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, such as physically distancing and sheltering-in-place, in-person care practices became increasingly difficult. Yet, unlike disasters catalyzed by hurricanes or other natural h…
Deconstructing the concept of camp governance toward practice-based theory building on post-disaster relocation
This article posits a simple, yet provocative, argument: post-disaster relocation sites are camps characterized by “incompleteness” where multiple actors seek to govern. The discursive framing of relocation sites as long-term solutions where residents are safe from natural hazards and integrate into their new communities suggests that relocation sites are not camps. Within these camp spaces, diverse actors attempt sometimes competing, sometimes c…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (7 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works)