Kara E Dempsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kara E Dempsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kara E |
| FAMILY NAME | Dempsey |
| SIGNATURE | DEMPSEY K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4176-6569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Geographies of Displacement, Belonging, and Home
To examine the layered, complex, and often contradictory processes of displacement and belonging, this special issue brings together a transnational collective of women scholars, including two Indigenous scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand and Hawai‘i who study different facets of human displacement and forced mobility. The central aims of the special issue include three key initiatives: First, we aim to explore the processes through which displac…
Political geographies of everyday life and agency in camps
Millions of displaced people currently live in various camps throughout the world. Asylum and refugee camps – both formal and informal – are growing in size and scope, becoming more permanent features on their respective landscapes. Our attention in this article is focused on the space of the camp itself, which has long been marked by profoundly unequal relations of power. A common theme that characterizes camps, whether operated by the UNHCR or …
Spatial Distribution of Social Media Topics Regarding Covid-19 and Related Public Health Policies
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, general public opinion in the United States has shown a decrease in trust in public health organizations and public health campaigns. Using social media as a lens for public opinion, this paper highlights the spatial distribution of social media platform users’ most widespread discussion topics regarding COVID-19, vaccinations, mask mandates, social distancing, quarantines, and shelter-in-place procedures…
Empowering Change: Refugee Agency in Refugee-Led Grassroots Advocacy Organizations
In recent decades, scholarly research on displacement and forced migration has increasingly shifted attention from primarily focusing on the legal and structural elements to also include the agency of forced migrants. While increasing attention is paid to migrant agency, most studies focus on their actions during a journey, their taking an active role in camp governance or camp design, and their personal experience(s) or those of their families. …
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime
Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict
"This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from…
Infrasecular” geographies and the multifaceted significance of a European shrine cathedral
This paper explores how the significance of the pilgrimage shrine church, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is layered and multifaceted for its local community. This cathedral is more than a sacred and pilgrimage landscape. Utilizing “infrasecular” geographies as an analytical lens, this article provides greater insight into the multifaceted and layered significance(s) of the Cathedral for the local community. It focuses more specifically o…
Concealed productions of structural violence: A cultural flagship in post-authoritarian Spain
This article contributes to examinations of structural violence and flagship architectural projects. Neoliberal urbanism contributes to European urban stakeholders’ efforts to increasingly become entrepreneurial forces, generating intense competition investment and tourism. There is a multitude of marketing initiatives, but the inclusion of cultural flagship projects is notably prevalent, particularly after the exemplary success of the Guggenheim…
An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland
This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and consequences of the island’s two distinct political units. Highlighting key geographic themes of bordering, unity, division, and national narratives, it explores how geopolitical space has been employed over time to (re)define divided national allegiances throughout Ireland and within Irish–British relatio…
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion
Migrants who reach EU asylum camps face various forms of spatialised violence that are bolstered by or produced within these geopolitical protracted spaces of waiting. Segregated from society, migrants experience processes of displacement, alienation and vulnerability as their legal status restricts their mobility and postpones employment or education opportunities. They are simultaneously suspended in a state of continuous disruption as they mov…
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime
Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the pl
Fostering Grassroots Civic Nationalism in an Ethno-nationally Divided Community in Northern Ireland
Much of Northern Ireland remains divided as it continues to transition from a prolonged ethno-national struggle during a period of violence known as “the Troubles” (1969–1998). This conflict resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, residential segregation and the construction of “peace walls” that separate the two ethno-national communities (i.e. “Catholic”/republican and “Protestant”/loyalist) in parts of many of its cities and towns. Residen…
Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU
Understanding Key-Informant Experiences and Perceptions of the 2016 Drought and Wildfires in Western North Carolina
In 2016, an exceptional drought and subsequent wildfires devastated the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina (WNC), a socioeconomically growing region that is dependent on revenue from tourism and agriculture, was particularly impacted by the events. The Southeast is not typically considered to be water vulnerable, and few studies have explored drought and wildfire in WNC. However, the region is projected to experience elevated wate…
Disaster depictions and geopolitical representations in Europe’s migration ‘Crisis’
Competing Claims and Nationalist Narratives: A City/State Debate in a Globalising World
This paper contributes to ongoing discussions about international urban entrepreneurialism, place marketing efforts, and city/state relations through an empirical analysis of a controversial state‐sponsored prestige project, G alicia's ‘ C ity of C ulture’ museum. The protracted intra‐regional debate surrounding the construction of the museum is informative in that it offers a scenario in which two rival cities are competing with each other withi…
The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention
The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention. Regional Studies. In the year 2000, the Council of Europe approved the European Landscape Convention, the first international treaty exclusively dedicated to the protection, management and planning of landscape. This supranational agreement is signed at the national level, but encourages the principle of subsidiarity for the implementation at the regional or local level. However, the cu…
Galicia's Hurricane: Actor Networks and Iconic Constructions
Monumental constructions are created for a purpose, often as a symbolic representation of a particular vision of a people or a place. Spain's Cidade da Cultura, a museum conceptualized by Galicia's former president with the hubristic goal of creating a world icon, is one such example. Like many iconic constructions, the Cidade da Cultura project was highly contentious and sparked a regionwide political debate, vastly overran its projected cost, a…
Health Seeking for Ambiguous Symptoms in Two Cultural Groups: A Comparative Study
This study examined cultural differences in health seeking for medically ambiguous symptoms in women from two culturally diverse communities. Thirty-five South Asian immigrants and 36 European Americans participated in a health history interview. Though the types and relative frequencies of practices were similar across the two groups, the goals and underlying logic supporting practices differed sharply. Among European Americans, practices were f…
Cultural Differences in the Experience of Everyday Symptoms: A Comparative Study of South Asian and European American Women
Disaster depictions and geopolitical representations in Europe’s migration ‘Crisis’
Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU
Cultural Differences in the Experience of Everyday Symptoms: A Comparative Study of South Asian and European American Women
Fostering Grassroots Civic Nationalism in an Ethno-nationally Divided Community in Northern Ireland
Much of Northern Ireland remains divided as it continues to transition from a prolonged ethno-national struggle during a period of violence known as “the Troubles” (1969–1998). This conflict resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, residential segregation and the construction of “peace walls” that separate the two ethno-national communities (i.e. “Catholic”/republican and “Protestant”/loyalist) in parts of many of its cities and towns. Residen…
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime
Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the pl
Galicia's Hurricane: Actor Networks and Iconic Constructions
Monumental constructions are created for a purpose, often as a symbolic representation of a particular vision of a people or a place. Spain's Cidade da Cultura, a museum conceptualized by Galicia's former president with the hubristic goal of creating a world icon, is one such example. Like many iconic constructions, the Cidade da Cultura project was highly contentious and sparked a regionwide political debate, vastly overran its projected cost, a…
Health Seeking for Ambiguous Symptoms in Two Cultural Groups: A Comparative Study
This study examined cultural differences in health seeking for medically ambiguous symptoms in women from two culturally diverse communities. Thirty-five South Asian immigrants and 36 European Americans participated in a health history interview. Though the types and relative frequencies of practices were similar across the two groups, the goals and underlying logic supporting practices differed sharply. Among European Americans, practices were f…
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion
Migrants who reach EU asylum camps face various forms of spatialised violence that are bolstered by or produced within these geopolitical protracted spaces of waiting. Segregated from society, migrants experience processes of displacement, alienation and vulnerability as their legal status restricts their mobility and postpones employment or education opportunities. They are simultaneously suspended in a state of continuous disruption as they mov…
Political geographies of everyday life and agency in camps
Millions of displaced people currently live in various camps throughout the world. Asylum and refugee camps – both formal and informal – are growing in size and scope, becoming more permanent features on their respective landscapes. Our attention in this article is focused on the space of the camp itself, which has long been marked by profoundly unequal relations of power. A common theme that characterizes camps, whether operated by the UNHCR or …
Competing Claims and Nationalist Narratives: A City/State Debate in a Globalising World
This paper contributes to ongoing discussions about international urban entrepreneurialism, place marketing efforts, and city/state relations through an empirical analysis of a controversial state‐sponsored prestige project, G alicia's ‘ C ity of C ulture’ museum. The protracted intra‐regional debate surrounding the construction of the museum is informative in that it offers a scenario in which two rival cities are competing with each other withi…
The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention
The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention. Regional Studies. In the year 2000, the Council of Europe approved the European Landscape Convention, the first international treaty exclusively dedicated to the protection, management and planning of landscape. This supranational agreement is signed at the national level, but encourages the principle of subsidiarity for the implementation at the regional or local level. However, the cu…
Concealed productions of structural violence: A cultural flagship in post-authoritarian Spain
This article contributes to examinations of structural violence and flagship architectural projects. Neoliberal urbanism contributes to European urban stakeholders’ efforts to increasingly become entrepreneurial forces, generating intense competition investment and tourism. There is a multitude of marketing initiatives, but the inclusion of cultural flagship projects is notably prevalent, particularly after the exemplary success of the Guggenheim…
Cultural Differences in the Experience of Everyday Symptoms: A Comparative Study of South Asian and European American Women
Health Seeking for Ambiguous Symptoms in Two Cultural Groups: A Comparative Study
This study examined cultural differences in health seeking for medically ambiguous symptoms in women from two culturally diverse communities. Thirty-five South Asian immigrants and 36 European Americans participated in a health history interview. Though the types and relative frequencies of practices were similar across the two groups, the goals and underlying logic supporting practices differed sharply. Among European Americans, practices were f…
Galicia's Hurricane: Actor Networks and Iconic Constructions
Monumental constructions are created for a purpose, often as a symbolic representation of a particular vision of a people or a place. Spain's Cidade da Cultura, a museum conceptualized by Galicia's former president with the hubristic goal of creating a world icon, is one such example. Like many iconic constructions, the Cidade da Cultura project was highly contentious and sparked a regionwide political debate, vastly overran its projected cost, a…
Competing Claims and Nationalist Narratives: A City/State Debate in a Globalising World
This paper contributes to ongoing discussions about international urban entrepreneurialism, place marketing efforts, and city/state relations through an empirical analysis of a controversial state‐sponsored prestige project, G alicia's ‘ C ity of C ulture’ museum. The protracted intra‐regional debate surrounding the construction of the museum is informative in that it offers a scenario in which two rival cities are competing with each other withi…
The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention
The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention. Regional Studies. In the year 2000, the Council of Europe approved the European Landscape Convention, the first international treaty exclusively dedicated to the protection, management and planning of landscape. This supranational agreement is signed at the national level, but encourages the principle of subsidiarity for the implementation at the regional or local level. However, the cu…
Disaster depictions and geopolitical representations in Europe’s migration ‘Crisis’
Understanding Key-Informant Experiences and Perceptions of the 2016 Drought and Wildfires in Western North Carolina
In 2016, an exceptional drought and subsequent wildfires devastated the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina (WNC), a socioeconomically growing region that is dependent on revenue from tourism and agriculture, was particularly impacted by the events. The Southeast is not typically considered to be water vulnerable, and few studies have explored drought and wildfire in WNC. However, the region is projected to experience elevated wate…
Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU
An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland
This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and consequences of the island’s two distinct political units. Highlighting key geographic themes of bordering, unity, division, and national narratives, it explores how geopolitical space has been employed over time to (re)define divided national allegiances throughout Ireland and within Irish–British relatio…
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion
Migrants who reach EU asylum camps face various forms of spatialised violence that are bolstered by or produced within these geopolitical protracted spaces of waiting. Segregated from society, migrants experience processes of displacement, alienation and vulnerability as their legal status restricts their mobility and postpones employment or education opportunities. They are simultaneously suspended in a state of continuous disruption as they mov…
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime
Wars and conflicts around the world take the lives of millions and leave millions more displaced both physically and emotionally. With an unprecedented number of displaced peoples worldwide, the pl
Fostering Grassroots Civic Nationalism in an Ethno-nationally Divided Community in Northern Ireland
Much of Northern Ireland remains divided as it continues to transition from a prolonged ethno-national struggle during a period of violence known as “the Troubles” (1969–1998). This conflict resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, residential segregation and the construction of “peace walls” that separate the two ethno-national communities (i.e. “Catholic”/republican and “Protestant”/loyalist) in parts of many of its cities and towns. Residen…
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime
Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict
"This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from…
Infrasecular” geographies and the multifaceted significance of a European shrine cathedral
This paper explores how the significance of the pilgrimage shrine church, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is layered and multifaceted for its local community. This cathedral is more than a sacred and pilgrimage landscape. Utilizing “infrasecular” geographies as an analytical lens, this article provides greater insight into the multifaceted and layered significance(s) of the Cathedral for the local community. It focuses more specifically o…
Concealed productions of structural violence: A cultural flagship in post-authoritarian Spain
This article contributes to examinations of structural violence and flagship architectural projects. Neoliberal urbanism contributes to European urban stakeholders’ efforts to increasingly become entrepreneurial forces, generating intense competition investment and tourism. There is a multitude of marketing initiatives, but the inclusion of cultural flagship projects is notably prevalent, particularly after the exemplary success of the Guggenheim…
Political geographies of everyday life and agency in camps
Millions of displaced people currently live in various camps throughout the world. Asylum and refugee camps – both formal and informal – are growing in size and scope, becoming more permanent features on their respective landscapes. Our attention in this article is focused on the space of the camp itself, which has long been marked by profoundly unequal relations of power. A common theme that characterizes camps, whether operated by the UNHCR or …
Spatial Distribution of Social Media Topics Regarding Covid-19 and Related Public Health Policies
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, general public opinion in the United States has shown a decrease in trust in public health organizations and public health campaigns. Using social media as a lens for public opinion, this paper highlights the spatial distribution of social media platform users’ most widespread discussion topics regarding COVID-19, vaccinations, mask mandates, social distancing, quarantines, and shelter-in-place procedures…
Empowering Change: Refugee Agency in Refugee-Led Grassroots Advocacy Organizations
In recent decades, scholarly research on displacement and forced migration has increasingly shifted attention from primarily focusing on the legal and structural elements to also include the agency of forced migrants. While increasing attention is paid to migrant agency, most studies focus on their actions during a journey, their taking an active role in camp governance or camp design, and their personal experience(s) or those of their families. …
Geographies of Displacement, Belonging, and Home
To examine the layered, complex, and often contradictory processes of displacement and belonging, this special issue brings together a transnational collective of women scholars, including two Indigenous scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand and Hawai‘i who study different facets of human displacement and forced mobility. The central aims of the special issue include three key initiatives: First, we aim to explore the processes through which displac…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Social science (6 works) · Refugee (5 works)