Carolyn Prouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Prouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Prouse |
| SIGNATURE | PROUSE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2952-2252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Geographies of biosecurity: Racialized vulnerability, colonial extraction, and a new critical consciousness
The current era of emerging infectious disease demands an elaboration of critical geography’s approach to biosecurity. We argue for further engagement with historicizations of empire to tease out the racialized, colonial, and class structures that create biosecurity crises and solutions. We suggest that work in political economy and critical surveillance studies offers ways to untangle the processes of racial capitalism, extraction, and racial im…
Distributing Reproduction Under Racial Capitalism: Crises and Conjunctures of Human Milk Banking in South Africa
Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance
Expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wastewater-Based Surveillance (WBS) is now heralded by scientists and policy makers alike as the future of monitoring and governing urban health. The expansion of WBS reflects larger neoliberal governance trends whereby digitalizing states increasingly rely on producing big data as a ‘best practice’ to surveil various aspects of everyday life. With a focus on three South Asian cities, our paper investigates …
Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater
With the outbreak of COVID‐19, wastewater surveillance for public health rapidly emerged and expanded globally. In this article we chart the variegated ecosystem of private firms that work closely with public and non‐profit entities to transform metabolic flows of sewage into vital and valuable bioinformation, thereby creating new multi‐institutional spaces of public health governance. We draw on literature in urban political ecology and politica…
Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations
In this commentary, we argue that geographical thought and praxis must engage with repressive biosecurity and biosurveillance systems and fight for alternatives. In doing so, geographers can contribute to an emerging anti-colonial and anti-racist interdisciplinary science. We suggest two counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations: working with those who have been cast out of biopolitical worlds and have long been fostering lif…
Living otherwise in uncertain and speculative times
Speculation has come to define the current conjuncture in myriad ways, from the structural hegemony of finance capital to the ways that people and communities are always thinking about and remaking their futures. In this brief commentary, I draw out five ways in which the articles in this special issue advance our understanding of speculation in the contemporary moment: speculative urbanism's temporalities, geographies, undersides, more-than-huma…
Affective registers of favela infrastructure in Rio de Janeiro
Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry
In 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows' and goats' milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal - and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada - is underpinned by a series of multispecies entanglements across cow, human and goat mothers in China and Canada. To do so, we analy…
Social reproductive metabolisms of human milk banking in Brazil
Articulating corruption of infrastructural upgrading projects in Rio de Janeiro
Mining liquid gold: The lively, contested terrain of human milk valuations
As global health organizations and national governments tout "breast is best," the value of human milk is being calculated - and profited from - in increasingly diverse forms. In this paper I chart three of the major ways in which human milk is being economically valued: calculating breastfeeding as a contribution to a country's GDP; buying and selling human milk to hospitals for profit; and manufacturing key components of human milk and the infa…
Subversive formalization: Efforts to (re)form land, labor, and behavior in a carioca favela
State entities in Brazil have rolled out numerous programs to “integrate” precarious settlements into the so-called formal city of Rio de Janeiro. Two of the most visceral integration projects in Rio’s favelas have been infrastructural upgrading and public security via military police occupation. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and policy analysis, in this paper I trace how these projects attempt to formalize land, labor, and beha…
The New Gold Standard: The Rise of Randomized Control Trials and Experimental Development
Development economics and institutions have a new gold standard: the randomized control trial (RCT). An RCT is an evaluation technique that draws from experimental design in order to measure the impact of a development project. Due to randomization—randomly distributing people or communities to receive either control or treatment—advocates suggest that it is possible to measure the impact of an intervention, and attribute a causal relationship be…
Autoconstruction 2.0: Social Media Contestations of Racialized Violence in Complexo do Alemão
Activists and journalists in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro are using social media to intervene in the violence that shapes their communities. In this article I draw on critical urban and digital media theory to understand how militarized policing, the spatialization of race, and discourses of criminalization influence favela populations. I examine how these discursive and material violences are motivating residents to autoconstruct new digit…
When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League
This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a depe…
On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life
Harnessing the hijab: The emergence of the Muslim Female Footballer through international sport governance
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and other international sport governing bodies have recently been involved in contestations concerning the allowance of the hijab in sport. This article interrogates how these institutions participate in the regulation of Muslim women, and the relationship that these actions have with colonial and imperial constitutions of race. Drawing on cri…
On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life
The New Gold Standard: The Rise of Randomized Control Trials and Experimental Development
Development economics and institutions have a new gold standard: the randomized control trial (RCT). An RCT is an evaluation technique that draws from experimental design in order to measure the impact of a development project. Due to randomization—randomly distributing people or communities to receive either control or treatment—advocates suggest that it is possible to measure the impact of an intervention, and attribute a causal relationship be…
Autoconstruction 2.0: Social Media Contestations of Racialized Violence in Complexo do Alemão
Activists and journalists in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro are using social media to intervene in the violence that shapes their communities. In this article I draw on critical urban and digital media theory to understand how militarized policing, the spatialization of race, and discourses of criminalization influence favela populations. I examine how these discursive and material violences are motivating residents to autoconstruct new digit…
When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League
This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a depe…
Social reproductive metabolisms of human milk banking in Brazil
Harnessing the hijab: The emergence of the Muslim Female Footballer through international sport governance
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and other international sport governing bodies have recently been involved in contestations concerning the allowance of the hijab in sport. This article interrogates how these institutions participate in the regulation of Muslim women, and the relationship that these actions have with colonial and imperial constitutions of race. Drawing on cri…
Affective registers of favela infrastructure in Rio de Janeiro
Articulating corruption of infrastructural upgrading projects in Rio de Janeiro
Mining liquid gold: The lively, contested terrain of human milk valuations
As global health organizations and national governments tout "breast is best," the value of human milk is being calculated - and profited from - in increasingly diverse forms. In this paper I chart three of the major ways in which human milk is being economically valued: calculating breastfeeding as a contribution to a country's GDP; buying and selling human milk to hospitals for profit; and manufacturing key components of human milk and the infa…
Subversive formalization: Efforts to (re)form land, labor, and behavior in a carioca favela
State entities in Brazil have rolled out numerous programs to “integrate” precarious settlements into the so-called formal city of Rio de Janeiro. Two of the most visceral integration projects in Rio’s favelas have been infrastructural upgrading and public security via military police occupation. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and policy analysis, in this paper I trace how these projects attempt to formalize land, labor, and beha…
Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater
With the outbreak of COVID‐19, wastewater surveillance for public health rapidly emerged and expanded globally. In this article we chart the variegated ecosystem of private firms that work closely with public and non‐profit entities to transform metabolic flows of sewage into vital and valuable bioinformation, thereby creating new multi‐institutional spaces of public health governance. We draw on literature in urban political ecology and politica…
Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations
In this commentary, we argue that geographical thought and praxis must engage with repressive biosecurity and biosurveillance systems and fight for alternatives. In doing so, geographers can contribute to an emerging anti-colonial and anti-racist interdisciplinary science. We suggest two counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations: working with those who have been cast out of biopolitical worlds and have long been fostering lif…
Living otherwise in uncertain and speculative times
Speculation has come to define the current conjuncture in myriad ways, from the structural hegemony of finance capital to the ways that people and communities are always thinking about and remaking their futures. In this brief commentary, I draw out five ways in which the articles in this special issue advance our understanding of speculation in the contemporary moment: speculative urbanism's temporalities, geographies, undersides, more-than-huma…
Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry
In 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows' and goats' milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal - and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada - is underpinned by a series of multispecies entanglements across cow, human and goat mothers in China and Canada. To do so, we analy…
Geographies of biosecurity: Racialized vulnerability, colonial extraction, and a new critical consciousness
The current era of emerging infectious disease demands an elaboration of critical geography’s approach to biosecurity. We argue for further engagement with historicizations of empire to tease out the racialized, colonial, and class structures that create biosecurity crises and solutions. We suggest that work in political economy and critical surveillance studies offers ways to untangle the processes of racial capitalism, extraction, and racial im…
On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life
Harnessing the hijab: The emergence of the Muslim Female Footballer through international sport governance
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and other international sport governing bodies have recently been involved in contestations concerning the allowance of the hijab in sport. This article interrogates how these institutions participate in the regulation of Muslim women, and the relationship that these actions have with colonial and imperial constitutions of race. Drawing on cri…
When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League
This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a depe…
Autoconstruction 2.0: Social Media Contestations of Racialized Violence in Complexo do Alemão
Activists and journalists in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro are using social media to intervene in the violence that shapes their communities. In this article I draw on critical urban and digital media theory to understand how militarized policing, the spatialization of race, and discourses of criminalization influence favela populations. I examine how these discursive and material violences are motivating residents to autoconstruct new digit…
The New Gold Standard: The Rise of Randomized Control Trials and Experimental Development
Development economics and institutions have a new gold standard: the randomized control trial (RCT). An RCT is an evaluation technique that draws from experimental design in order to measure the impact of a development project. Due to randomization—randomly distributing people or communities to receive either control or treatment—advocates suggest that it is possible to measure the impact of an intervention, and attribute a causal relationship be…
Subversive formalization: Efforts to (re)form land, labor, and behavior in a carioca favela
State entities in Brazil have rolled out numerous programs to “integrate” precarious settlements into the so-called formal city of Rio de Janeiro. Two of the most visceral integration projects in Rio’s favelas have been infrastructural upgrading and public security via military police occupation. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and policy analysis, in this paper I trace how these projects attempt to formalize land, labor, and beha…
Social reproductive metabolisms of human milk banking in Brazil
Articulating corruption of infrastructural upgrading projects in Rio de Janeiro
Mining liquid gold: The lively, contested terrain of human milk valuations
As global health organizations and national governments tout "breast is best," the value of human milk is being calculated - and profited from - in increasingly diverse forms. In this paper I chart three of the major ways in which human milk is being economically valued: calculating breastfeeding as a contribution to a country's GDP; buying and selling human milk to hospitals for profit; and manufacturing key components of human milk and the infa…
Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry
In 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows' and goats' milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal - and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada - is underpinned by a series of multispecies entanglements across cow, human and goat mothers in China and Canada. To do so, we analy…
Counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations
In this commentary, we argue that geographical thought and praxis must engage with repressive biosecurity and biosurveillance systems and fight for alternatives. In doing so, geographers can contribute to an emerging anti-colonial and anti-racist interdisciplinary science. We suggest two counter-collaborations towards alternative bio-securitizations: working with those who have been cast out of biopolitical worlds and have long been fostering lif…
Living otherwise in uncertain and speculative times
Speculation has come to define the current conjuncture in myriad ways, from the structural hegemony of finance capital to the ways that people and communities are always thinking about and remaking their futures. In this brief commentary, I draw out five ways in which the articles in this special issue advance our understanding of speculation in the contemporary moment: speculative urbanism's temporalities, geographies, undersides, more-than-huma…
Affective registers of favela infrastructure in Rio de Janeiro
Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater
With the outbreak of COVID‐19, wastewater surveillance for public health rapidly emerged and expanded globally. In this article we chart the variegated ecosystem of private firms that work closely with public and non‐profit entities to transform metabolic flows of sewage into vital and valuable bioinformation, thereby creating new multi‐institutional spaces of public health governance. We draw on literature in urban political ecology and politica…
Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance
Expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wastewater-Based Surveillance (WBS) is now heralded by scientists and policy makers alike as the future of monitoring and governing urban health. The expansion of WBS reflects larger neoliberal governance trends whereby digitalizing states increasingly rely on producing big data as a ‘best practice’ to surveil various aspects of everyday life. With a focus on three South Asian cities, our paper investigates …
Geographies of biosecurity: Racialized vulnerability, colonial extraction, and a new critical consciousness
The current era of emerging infectious disease demands an elaboration of critical geography’s approach to biosecurity. We argue for further engagement with historicizations of empire to tease out the racialized, colonial, and class structures that create biosecurity crises and solutions. We suggest that work in political economy and critical surveillance studies offers ways to untangle the processes of racial capitalism, extraction, and racial im…
Distributing Reproduction Under Racial Capitalism: Crises and Conjunctures of Human Milk Banking in South Africa
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