Kristin M Sziarto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin M Sziarto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sziarto |
| SIGNATURE | SZIARTO K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, WI, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 362 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee
This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee's Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee's public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the lead…
Teaching critical thinking in world regional geography through stakeholder debate
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction – that of Turkey's application to join the European Union – improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic thinking. A stakeholder debate highlighting regional construction, using structured learning activi…
Immigrants riding for justice
Placing Legitimacy
Religion‐labour alliances, like other faith‐based and religious organisations, raise questions about the invocation of religion to establish moral authority and political legitimacy in Western democracies. This paper argues that legitimacy should be understood as produced through spatio‐temporally contingent practices. The question of legitimacy is explored through a case study of the activities of a religion‐labour alliance in an urban hospital …
The spatialities of contentious politics
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities - scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, part…
The spatialities of contentious politics
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities - scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, part…
Immigrants riding for justice
Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee
This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee's Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee's public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the lead…
Placing Legitimacy
Religion‐labour alliances, like other faith‐based and religious organisations, raise questions about the invocation of religion to establish moral authority and political legitimacy in Western democracies. This paper argues that legitimacy should be understood as produced through spatio‐temporally contingent practices. The question of legitimacy is explored through a case study of the activities of a religion‐labour alliance in an urban hospital …
Teaching critical thinking in world regional geography through stakeholder debate
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction – that of Turkey's application to join the European Union – improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic thinking. A stakeholder debate highlighting regional construction, using structured learning activi…
Placing Legitimacy
Religion‐labour alliances, like other faith‐based and religious organisations, raise questions about the invocation of religion to establish moral authority and political legitimacy in Western democracies. This paper argues that legitimacy should be understood as produced through spatio‐temporally contingent practices. The question of legitimacy is explored through a case study of the activities of a religion‐labour alliance in an urban hospital …
The spatialities of contentious politics
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities - scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, part…
Immigrants riding for justice
Teaching critical thinking in world regional geography through stakeholder debate
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction – that of Turkey's application to join the European Union – improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic thinking. A stakeholder debate highlighting regional construction, using structured learning activi…
Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee
This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee's Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee's public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the lead…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)