Karen Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 211685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3102-6356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 328 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
House and contents underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia
Insurantial imaginaries: Some implications for home-owning democracies
Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: Perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne’s rural-urban interface
Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the …
Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions
Critical insurance studies recognises insurance as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, this theoretically informed research pays attention to the reproduction of power in insurantial discourse and practice, and possibilities for equitable change. To extend geographical contributions in this regard, I review critical insurance research and describe three intersecting foci – governmentality, materiality and spatiality. I al…
A Mona effect: How place discourse constitutes culture-led change
The arrival of the Museum and Old and New Art (Mona) in the disadvantaged municipality of Glenorchy was heralded as the beginning of significant social change in Australia's island state of Tasmania. These expectations were premised on a local place discourse known as the "Tasmanian gothic," and, in this article, our aim is to illustrate the importance of place specifications in culture-led change, including in relation to how place discourse con…
Firescapes of disruption: An absence of insurance in landscapes of fire
In this paper, I critically interrogate the expectation that insurance is becoming more present through the processes of financialisation and marketisation - as up-to-date policies and/or in the hearts and minds of consumers. I draw upon interviews about house and contents insurance, with householders in the flammable landscapes of south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. The participants identify these landscapes as resilient and permanent and thus ul…
Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery
As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance markets. In a pure market approach to insurance for extreme weather events, individuals become responsible for ensuring they are adequately covered for risks to their own properties, and governments no longer contribute funds to post‐disaster recovery. Theoretically, insurance premiums sig…
Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency in places of marketisation and financialisation
The underinsurance of property is pervasively and persuasively promoted as an indicator of risk and riskiness and, in Western nations, is assumed to be aligned with socio-economic disadvantage. Yet, the solution - in its most simple form, buying more insurance - lacks critical interrogation of what the problem actually is. To understand underinsurance better, we map house and contents underinsurance across two municipalities in Australia's island…
Profiteering from Disaster: Why Planners Need to be Paying More Attention to Insurance
Insurance is overlooked in planning practice and research. Focusing on house and contents insurance in Australia’s disaster-prone areas, I describe why the impacts of insurance availability and pricing on urban form requires greater attention from planners. With increasing climate change-related risks, the growing influence of insurance and insurers is exacerbating social and financial inequity: fostering disadvantaged enclaves and protected pock…
Training General Practice Registrars on conducting child health and developmental surveillance. Evaluation of a blended eLearning Program
Introduction: Community-based integrated care initiatives for children and families had been developed in Sydney Australia over five years. One of those is the Healthy Homses and Neighbourhoods Integrated Care (HHAN) Initiative. The HHAN design includes several sector workforce capacity building initiatives. A partnership was formed with: primary health networks (PHN), child and family nurses, practice nurses, a general practice training organisa…
When disaster strikes: Under-insurance in Australian households
In undertaking what we believe is the first national-scale study of its kind, we provide methodologically transparent, statistically robust insights into associations and potential unfolding effects of house and contents under-insurance. We identify new dimensions in the complex relationship between householders and insurance, including the salience of interpersonal – and likely institutional – trust. Under-insurance is (re)produced along socio-e…
A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems
Van Putten, I. E., É. E. Plagányi, K. Booth, C. Cvitanovic, R. Kelly, A. E. Punt, and S. A. Richards. 2018. A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems. Ecology and Society 23(4):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10504-230404
The places within
There was a place in my life where I had the time and space to reflect more deeply on the intricacies of home. Here my sense of where I was shifted and stirred, along with my relationship with some of the 'things' that made up my home. The washing machine that seemingly existed as a complete, discrete 'thing' prior to arriving in my home transgressed into my washing machine. It became, as I describe below, co-produced within my home life - a co-p…
Thinking through lines: Locating Perception and Experience in Place
How one conceptualizes place in research matters. I offer a 'line analysis' informed by Ingold's idea that places are 'tissues of lines' and argue that this enables reflexivity with regards to what counts as 'place', adds legitimacy to the claim that places really do matter in research, and assists in representing places as a socio-natural phenomenon that cannot be compartmentalized or reduced to a humanist understanding of the social. I trial th…
It's a Museum, But Not as We Know It: Issues for Local Residents Accessing the Museum of Old and New Art
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Australia's island state of Tasmania, bears all the hallmarks of the new museology and a flagship museum. Located in a largely working class area, there are expectations of visitors from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, particularly local residents. However most visitors are tourists, middle-class, and highly educated. In this article, the authors ask, “What are the issues affecting accessibility to MONA…
All the same thing”: Liberating reproductive politics for a mediated “gay community”
Analyzing the logic by which the Boston-based, national newspaper, the Gay Community News (GCN), intervened in mid-1980s battles over abortion and foster-parenting, this case study confirms and complicates recent critiques of ahistorical and silo-ed “alternative” media theory. The GCN’s radical collective strategically mixed, dismissed, crossed, re-defined, and ignored historically and geographically specific rhetorical resources to link abortion…
Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study
Insurance as catastrophe: A geography of house and contents insurance in bushfire-prone places
What a Difference Place Makes: Place Gestalt and Some Methodological Thoughts
Place is a recurrent yet contested theme in the social sciences, and an emerging theme within qualitative inquiry. How one understands place has significant bearing upon the difference that place makes to methodology. Accounts that rely on fixed, bordered, and exclusionist notions of place-based authenticity are problematic. A conceptualization of place as dynamic, open, and more-than-human offers other methodological possibilities regarding the …
The Democratization of Art: A Contextual Approach
Publicly funded museums and art galleries have been called upon to demonstrate their worth as nodes of social inclusion and facilitators of social change. Flagship galleries have been constructed to foster urban regeneration in part aimed at social inclusivity and transformation. A new museology has emerged that is perceived to be intrinsically more democratic for visitors. This focus on the democratization of art in academia and cultural policy …
A more-than-human political moment (and other natural catastrophes)
Catastrophic events such as wildfires are predicted to increase and intensify because of climate change. This paper speculates on how politics may look within such a context by deploying Rancière's political theorisations. We examine how a posthumanist re-configuration of this humanist notion of politics contributes to thinking about, acting for, and living within a rapidly changing climate. Specifically, we make a case for “more-than-human” poli…
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The African Development Bank published a review of health within Africa over the past 50 years, looking at health patterns and trends, and the challenges of the next 50 years. Fifty years marks the independence of many African countries from colonial rule. It highlights the improvement in life expectancy (from 38 years in 1958 to 56 in 2012), and successes in improving maternal, infant and under-five child mortality rates. In the future, Africa f…
Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change: Insights from Australia
Mother-Only Families: Problems, Prospects, and Politics
Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study
The social construction of the breast cancer epidemic
Gender, Migration and Social Change
This paper provides a critical review of existing studies about how migration alters women's position in the course of social change. Two major goals are accomplished. First, the conceptual and methodological issues that bear on the assessment of changing gender relations are distilled from the existing literature. Second, for heuristic purposes we delineate three alternative outcomes for migrant women using the distribution-redistribution analyt…
Insurance as catastrophe: A geography of house and contents insurance in bushfire-prone places
What a Difference Place Makes: Place Gestalt and Some Methodological Thoughts
Place is a recurrent yet contested theme in the social sciences, and an emerging theme within qualitative inquiry. How one understands place has significant bearing upon the difference that place makes to methodology. Accounts that rely on fixed, bordered, and exclusionist notions of place-based authenticity are problematic. A conceptualization of place as dynamic, open, and more-than-human offers other methodological possibilities regarding the …
Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change: Insights from Australia
A more-than-human political moment (and other natural catastrophes)
Catastrophic events such as wildfires are predicted to increase and intensify because of climate change. This paper speculates on how politics may look within such a context by deploying Rancière's political theorisations. We examine how a posthumanist re-configuration of this humanist notion of politics contributes to thinking about, acting for, and living within a rapidly changing climate. Specifically, we make a case for “more-than-human” poli…
Privatizing climate adaptation: How insurance weakens solidaristic and collective disaster recovery
As losses from extreme weather events grow, many governments are looking to privatize the financing and incentivization of climate adaptation through insurance markets. In a pure market approach to insurance for extreme weather events, individuals become responsible for ensuring they are adequately covered for risks to their own properties, and governments no longer contribute funds to post‐disaster recovery. Theoretically, insurance premiums sig…
When disaster strikes: Under-insurance in Australian households
In undertaking what we believe is the first national-scale study of its kind, we provide methodologically transparent, statistically robust insights into associations and potential unfolding effects of house and contents under-insurance. We identify new dimensions in the complex relationship between householders and insurance, including the salience of interpersonal – and likely institutional – trust. Under-insurance is (re)produced along socio-e…
National Mother, Global Whore, and Transnational Femocrats: The Politics of Aids and the Construction of Women at the World Health Organization
Karen M. Booth, National Mother, Global Whore, and Transnational Femocrats: The Politics of AIDS and the Construction of Women at the World Health Organization, Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 115-139
Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions
Critical insurance studies recognises insurance as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, this theoretically informed research pays attention to the reproduction of power in insurantial discourse and practice, and possibilities for equitable change. To extend geographical contributions in this regard, I review critical insurance research and describe three intersecting foci – governmentality, materiality and spatiality. I al…
Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency in places of marketisation and financialisation
The underinsurance of property is pervasively and persuasively promoted as an indicator of risk and riskiness and, in Western nations, is assumed to be aligned with socio-economic disadvantage. Yet, the solution - in its most simple form, buying more insurance - lacks critical interrogation of what the problem actually is. To understand underinsurance better, we map house and contents underinsurance across two municipalities in Australia's island…
A Magic Bullet for the "African" Mother? Neo-Imperial Reproductive Futurism and the Pharmaceutical "Solution" to the HIV/Aids Crisis
On the basis of a close reading of popular and medical texts which address a debate over the ethics of clinical drug trials funded by the United States and designed mainly for sub-Saharan Africa, I argue that international public health discourse about infant HIV infection in that region reflects and legitimates a neo-imperialist, anti-reproductive justice ideology. Participants share a fetal-centered logic that US-funded biomedicine must shoulde…
Risdon Vale: Place, Memory, and Suburban Experience
The author reflects upon the notions of personal memory, collective memory, myth, and evolved memory within her lived experience of Risdon Vale. These interrelated forms of memory influence understanding of place and sense of place. Personal memories corroborate and collaborate with intersubjective memories to inform collective memory. Both personal and collective memories are held within a fusion of cultural myths. Evolved memory binds us deeply…
Insurantial imaginaries: Some implications for home-owning democracies
A Mona effect: How place discourse constitutes culture-led change
The arrival of the Museum and Old and New Art (Mona) in the disadvantaged municipality of Glenorchy was heralded as the beginning of significant social change in Australia's island state of Tasmania. These expectations were premised on a local place discourse known as the "Tasmanian gothic," and, in this article, our aim is to illustrate the importance of place specifications in culture-led change, including in relation to how place discourse con…
Firescapes of disruption: An absence of insurance in landscapes of fire
In this paper, I critically interrogate the expectation that insurance is becoming more present through the processes of financialisation and marketisation - as up-to-date policies and/or in the hearts and minds of consumers. I draw upon interviews about house and contents insurance, with householders in the flammable landscapes of south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. The participants identify these landscapes as resilient and permanent and thus ul…
A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems
Van Putten, I. E., É. E. Plagányi, K. Booth, C. Cvitanovic, R. Kelly, A. E. Punt, and S. A. Richards. 2018. A framework for incorporating sense of place into the management of marine systems. Ecology and Society 23(4):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10504-230404
In Wilderness and Wildness: Recognizing and Responding within the Agency of Relational Memory
There are complexity of entities and happenings embodied within the pillars that frame the doorways in our homes and support broad flat spaces that form supermarkets and department stores. Each pillar speaks to the mythology encircling the origins of Gothic architecture; the ideas surrounding the shift from the trunks and boughs of the scared grove towards the columns, arches and vaults of church and cathedral. Each pillar embodies the evolution …
Insurance, fire and the peri-urban: Perceptions of changing communities in Melbourne’s rural-urban interface
Across the world, cities are growing, blurring lines between urban and rural. In Australia, peri-urban areas are undergoing demographic shifts and extensive development. In the literature, these shifts are characterised by differences in the risk perceptions and hazard experiences between established and incoming residents. In this paper, we illustrate how some of these differences are perceived by focusing on house and contents insurance in the …
Thinking through lines: Locating Perception and Experience in Place
How one conceptualizes place in research matters. I offer a 'line analysis' informed by Ingold's idea that places are 'tissues of lines' and argue that this enables reflexivity with regards to what counts as 'place', adds legitimacy to the claim that places really do matter in research, and assists in representing places as a socio-natural phenomenon that cannot be compartmentalized or reduced to a humanist understanding of the social. I trial th…
All the same thing”: Liberating reproductive politics for a mediated “gay community”
Analyzing the logic by which the Boston-based, national newspaper, the Gay Community News (GCN), intervened in mid-1980s battles over abortion and foster-parenting, this case study confirms and complicates recent critiques of ahistorical and silo-ed “alternative” media theory. The GCN’s radical collective strategically mixed, dismissed, crossed, re-defined, and ignored historically and geographically specific rhetorical resources to link abortion…
Realising the potential of multimedia visitor guides: Practical experiences of developing mi-Guide
Multimedia guides are an increasingly common feature within museums and galleries where they provide enhanced levels of interpretation and engagement. Their potential is well recognised in the literature and ongoing technological advances will ensure that their capabilities continue to expand. A key issue for many museums and galleries is to understand the practical realities of developing and operating a multimedia guide to truly realise its pot…
Just Testing: Race, Sex, and the Media in New York's “Baby Aids” Debate
In 1993, debates over mandatory HIV testing reemerged in New York when politicians and journalists launched a compaign to 'unblind' results of a survey of HIV prevalence in newborns. This article reports on the findings from a content analysis of 108 'Baby AIDS' news stories published in New York newspapers in 1993 and 1994. In constructing a discourse of blame for the infection of 'innocent' babies, 'Baby AIDS' news stories demonstrate that raci…
Mother-Only Families: Problems, Prospects, and Politics
Gender, Migration and Social Change
This paper provides a critical review of existing studies about how migration alters women's position in the course of social change. Two major goals are accomplished. First, the conceptual and methodological issues that bear on the assessment of changing gender relations are distilled from the existing literature. Second, for heuristic purposes we delineate three alternative outcomes for migrant women using the distribution-redistribution analyt…
Aids in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994
Fifteen years ago the AIDS 'epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment of AIDS. In this important and original analysis of AIDS policy, Virginia Berridge examines the speed and nature of the official (and unofficial) response to this new and critical…
Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State
IntroductionPART I THE FEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT1 The Australian social compact2 The early years3 Establishing the feminist mafia4 MilestonesPART II A DISTINCTIVE IDEOLOGY5 Using the state6 Mandarins or missionaries? Accountability to the women's movement7 Class-conscious agenda8 Race, ethnicity and racismPART III GENDERED EXPERIENCES9 Official feminism and the politics of gender10 Sexual politics11 Sisterhood is fragilePART IV THE LIMITS OF REFORM12…
National Mother, Global Whore, and Transnational Femocrats: The Politics of Aids and the Construction of Women at the World Health Organization
Karen M. Booth, National Mother, Global Whore, and Transnational Femocrats: The Politics of AIDS and the Construction of Women at the World Health Organization, Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 115-139
The social construction of the breast cancer epidemic
Just Testing: Race, Sex, and the Media in New York's “Baby Aids” Debate
In 1993, debates over mandatory HIV testing reemerged in New York when politicians and journalists launched a compaign to 'unblind' results of a survey of HIV prevalence in newborns. This article reports on the findings from a content analysis of 108 'Baby AIDS' news stories published in New York newspapers in 1993 and 1994. In constructing a discourse of blame for the infection of 'innocent' babies, 'Baby AIDS' news stories demonstrate that raci…
Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class
Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class. Edited by Geeta Chowdhry and Sheila Nair. London: Routledge, 2004. 324p. $125.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. What do a French-educated Algerian revolutionary, a Lakota traditionalist, Kim Dae Jung, a Romanian sex worker in Cyprus, a Guyanese cricket star of South Asian origin and his Afro-Guyanese fans, a Muslim living in Europe, a Tibetan nationalist, a child rug maker …
Risdon Vale: Place, Memory, and Suburban Experience
The author reflects upon the notions of personal memory, collective memory, myth, and evolved memory within her lived experience of Risdon Vale. These interrelated forms of memory influence understanding of place and sense of place. Personal memories corroborate and collaborate with intersubjective memories to inform collective memory. Both personal and collective memories are held within a fusion of cultural myths. Evolved memory binds us deeply…
The Creative Art of Medical Inquiry
The Art of Seeing Program is a visual literacy pilot program at McMaster University developed as a collaboration between the McMaster Museum of Art and the Department of Family Medicine with the goal to explore whether the facilitated viewing of art could increase more than observational skills in Family Medicine residents. The Art of Seeing Program presented the arts alongside reflective practice as coupled aids for family physicians in training…
A Magic Bullet for the "African" Mother? Neo-Imperial Reproductive Futurism and the Pharmaceutical "Solution" to the HIV/Aids Crisis
On the basis of a close reading of popular and medical texts which address a debate over the ethics of clinical drug trials funded by the United States and designed mainly for sub-Saharan Africa, I argue that international public health discourse about infant HIV infection in that region reflects and legitimates a neo-imperialist, anti-reproductive justice ideology. Participants share a fetal-centered logic that US-funded biomedicine must shoulde…
In Wilderness and Wildness: Recognizing and Responding within the Agency of Relational Memory
There are complexity of entities and happenings embodied within the pillars that frame the doorways in our homes and support broad flat spaces that form supermarkets and department stores. Each pillar speaks to the mythology encircling the origins of Gothic architecture; the ideas surrounding the shift from the trunks and boughs of the scared grove towards the columns, arches and vaults of church and cathedral. Each pillar embodies the evolution …
Realising the potential of multimedia visitor guides: Practical experiences of developing mi-Guide
Multimedia guides are an increasingly common feature within museums and galleries where they provide enhanced levels of interpretation and engagement. Their potential is well recognised in the literature and ongoing technological advances will ensure that their capabilities continue to expand. A key issue for many museums and galleries is to understand the practical realities of developing and operating a multimedia guide to truly realise its pot…
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The African Development Bank published a review of health within Africa over the past 50 years, looking at health patterns and trends, and the challenges of the next 50 years. Fifty years marks the independence of many African countries from colonial rule. It highlights the improvement in life expectancy (from 38 years in 1958 to 56 in 2012), and successes in improving maternal, infant and under-five child mortality rates. In the future, Africa f…
Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change: Insights from Australia
The Democratization of Art: A Contextual Approach
Publicly funded museums and art galleries have been called upon to demonstrate their worth as nodes of social inclusion and facilitators of social change. Flagship galleries have been constructed to foster urban regeneration in part aimed at social inclusivity and transformation. A new museology has emerged that is perceived to be intrinsically more democratic for visitors. This focus on the democratization of art in academia and cultural policy …
A more-than-human political moment (and other natural catastrophes)
Catastrophic events such as wildfires are predicted to increase and intensify because of climate change. This paper speculates on how politics may look within such a context by deploying Rancière's political theorisations. We examine how a posthumanist re-configuration of this humanist notion of politics contributes to thinking about, acting for, and living within a rapidly changing climate. Specifically, we make a case for “more-than-human” poli…
Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study
Insurance as catastrophe: A geography of house and contents insurance in bushfire-prone places
What a Difference Place Makes: Place Gestalt and Some Methodological Thoughts
Place is a recurrent yet contested theme in the social sciences, and an emerging theme within qualitative inquiry. How one understands place has significant bearing upon the difference that place makes to methodology. Accounts that rely on fixed, bordered, and exclusionist notions of place-based authenticity are problematic. A conceptualization of place as dynamic, open, and more-than-human offers other methodological possibilities regarding the …
It's a Museum, But Not as We Know It: Issues for Local Residents Accessing the Museum of Old and New Art
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Australia's island state of Tasmania, bears all the hallmarks of the new museology and a flagship museum. Located in a largely working class area, there are expectations of visitors from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, particularly local residents. However most visitors are tourists, middle-class, and highly educated. In this article, the authors ask, “What are the issues affecting accessibility to MONA…
All the same thing”: Liberating reproductive politics for a mediated “gay community”
Analyzing the logic by which the Boston-based, national newspaper, the Gay Community News (GCN), intervened in mid-1980s battles over abortion and foster-parenting, this case study confirms and complicates recent critiques of ahistorical and silo-ed “alternative” media theory. The GCN’s radical collective strategically mixed, dismissed, crossed, re-defined, and ignored historically and geographically specific rhetorical resources to link abortion…
Profiteering from Disaster: Why Planners Need to be Paying More Attention to Insurance
Insurance is overlooked in planning practice and research. Focusing on house and contents insurance in Australia’s disaster-prone areas, I describe why the impacts of insurance availability and pricing on urban form requires greater attention from planners. With increasing climate change-related risks, the growing influence of insurance and insurers is exacerbating social and financial inequity: fostering disadvantaged enclaves and protected pock…
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