Leslie Kern
Biographic Data
| ID | 219880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Kern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kern |
| SIGNATURE | KERN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Allison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 356 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Stories we tell
In this commentary, I respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ in a moment of intense ‘otherwise-ness’ as a global pandemic upends daily life in a variety of mundane and profound ways. Provoked by Ruez and Cockayne to take up the idea of the stories we tell, I reflect on ambivalence and writing into a world deeply undecided. Although it is not hard to detect accounts of this crisis at both the ‘paranoid’ and affirmative ends of an affec…
Feminist Interventions: Anglophone World
Feminist interventions explore and theorize gendered experiences of urban life, and conceptualize the complex relationship between urban space and social relations of difference and inequality. Addressing urban themes such as housing, labor, planning, safety, transportation, care work, social reproduction, and the public/private distinction, anglophone feminists have illustrated the significance of gender in shaping cities over time. Methodologic…
I Choose to be Here”: Tensions between Autonomy and Precarity in Craft Market Vendors’ Work
Outdoor markets have emerged as key nodes in cities’ attempts to revitalize downtown areas through culture and consumption. However, few studies have investigated urban markets as sites of labor, or explored work conditions from the perspective of vendors themselves. As self–employed creative workers in a seasonal industry, artisan vendors experience various forms of economic insecurity related to precarity inherent to their line of work. This ar…
Practicing Collective Biography
Collective biography uses researchers' written memories about a set of experiences as texts for collective analysis. As a feminist approach to research, collective biography draws centrally on the idea that significant memories are critical in the constitution of the self, and maintains that in analyzing memories collectively, researchers can begin to tap into wider social processes and structures. Though rarely used in geography, collective biog…
Rhythms of gentrification: Eventfulness and Slow Violence in a Happening Neighbourhood
Gentrification involves the transformation of neighbourhood social spaces in ways that remake place in line with the needs and desires of new residents and capital investors. While spatial transformations have been well documented in the gentrification literature, temporality has rarely been foregrounded, although social space is also altered by privileging new rhythms and tempos of everyday life. Using a case study of Toronto's gentrifying Junct…
From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body
This paper takes up the challenge of extending and enhancing the literature on environmental gentrification by considering bodies and embodied practices as significant dimensions of this process. In considering the question of how a polluted past can be mobilized as an asset for neighbourhood rebranding and gentrification, this research suggests that the conflation of both pollution and 'health' with different kinds of urban bodies and practices …
Feminist research in online spaces
The Internet is growing in popularity as a research site and is often framed as the next frontier in human subjects research. The opportunities the Internet provides for political organizing, making personal experiences more public, and creating spaces for a variety of voices makes it particularly relevant to feminist geographers and researchers such as ourselves. However, many qualitative researchers approach online research as though the Intern…
A collective biography of joy in academic practice
Changing working conditions at many universities over the past decade have meant longer hours, intensified record-keeping, and more precarious employment. Despite these changes, many academics still insist that we enjoy our jobs. Our inquiry is oriented toward spaces and practices that bring us joy in our daily work and help us withstand the negative effects of working in academia. This article reports on our exploration of some moments of joy at…
All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto's Junction
Despite early attention being paid to the connections amongst ‘gender, work and gentrification’ in the urban geography literature, there have been few attempts to examine the experiences of women as workers in gentrifying neighbourhoods. This gap leaves open critical questions about the nature of the links between the production of gendered work practices and the production of gentrified urban landscapes. In this article, I explore how women work…
Connecting embodiment, emotion and gentrification: An exploration through the practice of yoga in Toronto
Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
"Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of cities. Reports claimed that condominium ownership offered women new-found freedom, financial independence, and personal security. But has home ownership truly empowered women, or were the reports merely celebratory rhetoric that disguised more disquieting trends?" "To get at the reality behind the rhetor…
Selling the 'scary city: Gendering Freedom, Fear and Condominium Development in the Neoliberal City
In contemporary postindustrial cities, urban revitalization policies are discursively linked, in part, to urban fears and relations of threat. In Toronto, these tensions are inscribed in the city through new-build gentrification in the form of condominium development, a process that has created tens of thousands of securitized residential spaces. These spaces, I suggest, are produced in part through gendered ideologies about cities, bodies, safet…
Gendering reurbanisation: Women and new‐build gentrification in Toronto
For over a decade beginning in the mid 1990s, Toronto, Canada experienced a massive wave of condominium development. Women make up a high percentage of condominium purchasers and condominiums are extensively marketed to young, professional urban women. In grappling with this phenomenon, this paper constructs a gendered social geography of reurbanisation and new‐build gentrification in Toronto, through qualitative research into women's experiences…
Reshaping the Boundaries of Public and Private Life: Gender, Condominium Development, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Living
Taking feminist research as a starting point into the ways in which gentrification shapes gender relations in the city, this article addresses the phenomenon of new-build gentrification in terms of the re-contouring of gendered boundaries of public and private urban life. I examine how a widespread process of condominium development in Toronto is informed by neoliberal policy imperatives such as growth and competition. I also explore the ways in …
In Place and At Home in the City: Connecting privilege, safety and belonging for women in Toronto
In this article I theorize the connections between privileged social identities and women's sense of safety and belonging in a diverse urban environment, Toronto. Based on qualitative research with a small group of women who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, and later chose to live in the city, this article is a preliminary investigation into the factors that make it possible for some women to feel ‘in place’ in the city. I suggest that confiden…
Scientists' Understanding of Propositional Logic: An Experimental Investigation
Seventy-two scientists (psychologists, biologists, and physicists) from a large US midwestern state university completed a questionnaire designed to assess understanding of the principles of formal logic believed by philosophers of science to be essential to theory and hypothesis testing. The questionnaire, in a multiple-choice format, required solutions to problems presented in either abstract (symbolic) or concrete (specific example) terms. Acr…
Rhythms of gentrification: Eventfulness and Slow Violence in a Happening Neighbourhood
Gentrification involves the transformation of neighbourhood social spaces in ways that remake place in line with the needs and desires of new residents and capital investors. While spatial transformations have been well documented in the gentrification literature, temporality has rarely been foregrounded, although social space is also altered by privileging new rhythms and tempos of everyday life. Using a case study of Toronto's gentrifying Junct…
Selling the 'scary city: Gendering Freedom, Fear and Condominium Development in the Neoliberal City
In contemporary postindustrial cities, urban revitalization policies are discursively linked, in part, to urban fears and relations of threat. In Toronto, these tensions are inscribed in the city through new-build gentrification in the form of condominium development, a process that has created tens of thousands of securitized residential spaces. These spaces, I suggest, are produced in part through gendered ideologies about cities, bodies, safet…
Feminist research in online spaces
The Internet is growing in popularity as a research site and is often framed as the next frontier in human subjects research. The opportunities the Internet provides for political organizing, making personal experiences more public, and creating spaces for a variety of voices makes it particularly relevant to feminist geographers and researchers such as ourselves. However, many qualitative researchers approach online research as though the Intern…
From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body
This paper takes up the challenge of extending and enhancing the literature on environmental gentrification by considering bodies and embodied practices as significant dimensions of this process. In considering the question of how a polluted past can be mobilized as an asset for neighbourhood rebranding and gentrification, this research suggests that the conflation of both pollution and 'health' with different kinds of urban bodies and practices …
A collective biography of joy in academic practice
Changing working conditions at many universities over the past decade have meant longer hours, intensified record-keeping, and more precarious employment. Despite these changes, many academics still insist that we enjoy our jobs. Our inquiry is oriented toward spaces and practices that bring us joy in our daily work and help us withstand the negative effects of working in academia. This article reports on our exploration of some moments of joy at…
Reshaping the Boundaries of Public and Private Life: Gender, Condominium Development, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Living
Taking feminist research as a starting point into the ways in which gentrification shapes gender relations in the city, this article addresses the phenomenon of new-build gentrification in terms of the re-contouring of gendered boundaries of public and private urban life. I examine how a widespread process of condominium development in Toronto is informed by neoliberal policy imperatives such as growth and competition. I also explore the ways in …
In Place and At Home in the City: Connecting privilege, safety and belonging for women in Toronto
In this article I theorize the connections between privileged social identities and women's sense of safety and belonging in a diverse urban environment, Toronto. Based on qualitative research with a small group of women who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, and later chose to live in the city, this article is a preliminary investigation into the factors that make it possible for some women to feel ‘in place’ in the city. I suggest that confiden…
Connecting embodiment, emotion and gentrification: An exploration through the practice of yoga in Toronto
All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto's Junction
Despite early attention being paid to the connections amongst ‘gender, work and gentrification’ in the urban geography literature, there have been few attempts to examine the experiences of women as workers in gentrifying neighbourhoods. This gap leaves open critical questions about the nature of the links between the production of gendered work practices and the production of gentrified urban landscapes. In this article, I explore how women work…
Gendering reurbanisation: Women and new‐build gentrification in Toronto
For over a decade beginning in the mid 1990s, Toronto, Canada experienced a massive wave of condominium development. Women make up a high percentage of condominium purchasers and condominiums are extensively marketed to young, professional urban women. In grappling with this phenomenon, this paper constructs a gendered social geography of reurbanisation and new‐build gentrification in Toronto, through qualitative research into women's experiences…
I Choose to be Here”: Tensions between Autonomy and Precarity in Craft Market Vendors’ Work
Outdoor markets have emerged as key nodes in cities’ attempts to revitalize downtown areas through culture and consumption. However, few studies have investigated urban markets as sites of labor, or explored work conditions from the perspective of vendors themselves. As self–employed creative workers in a seasonal industry, artisan vendors experience various forms of economic insecurity related to precarity inherent to their line of work. This ar…
Scientists' Understanding of Propositional Logic: An Experimental Investigation
Seventy-two scientists (psychologists, biologists, and physicists) from a large US midwestern state university completed a questionnaire designed to assess understanding of the principles of formal logic believed by philosophers of science to be essential to theory and hypothesis testing. The questionnaire, in a multiple-choice format, required solutions to problems presented in either abstract (symbolic) or concrete (specific example) terms. Acr…
Stories we tell
In this commentary, I respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ in a moment of intense ‘otherwise-ness’ as a global pandemic upends daily life in a variety of mundane and profound ways. Provoked by Ruez and Cockayne to take up the idea of the stories we tell, I reflect on ambivalence and writing into a world deeply undecided. Although it is not hard to detect accounts of this crisis at both the ‘paranoid’ and affirmative ends of an affec…
Practicing Collective Biography
Collective biography uses researchers' written memories about a set of experiences as texts for collective analysis. As a feminist approach to research, collective biography draws centrally on the idea that significant memories are critical in the constitution of the self, and maintains that in analyzing memories collectively, researchers can begin to tap into wider social processes and structures. Though rarely used in geography, collective biog…
Scientists' Understanding of Propositional Logic: An Experimental Investigation
Seventy-two scientists (psychologists, biologists, and physicists) from a large US midwestern state university completed a questionnaire designed to assess understanding of the principles of formal logic believed by philosophers of science to be essential to theory and hypothesis testing. The questionnaire, in a multiple-choice format, required solutions to problems presented in either abstract (symbolic) or concrete (specific example) terms. Acr…
In Place and At Home in the City: Connecting privilege, safety and belonging for women in Toronto
In this article I theorize the connections between privileged social identities and women's sense of safety and belonging in a diverse urban environment, Toronto. Based on qualitative research with a small group of women who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, and later chose to live in the city, this article is a preliminary investigation into the factors that make it possible for some women to feel ‘in place’ in the city. I suggest that confiden…
Reshaping the Boundaries of Public and Private Life: Gender, Condominium Development, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Living
Taking feminist research as a starting point into the ways in which gentrification shapes gender relations in the city, this article addresses the phenomenon of new-build gentrification in terms of the re-contouring of gendered boundaries of public and private urban life. I examine how a widespread process of condominium development in Toronto is informed by neoliberal policy imperatives such as growth and competition. I also explore the ways in …
Gendering reurbanisation: Women and new‐build gentrification in Toronto
For over a decade beginning in the mid 1990s, Toronto, Canada experienced a massive wave of condominium development. Women make up a high percentage of condominium purchasers and condominiums are extensively marketed to young, professional urban women. In grappling with this phenomenon, this paper constructs a gendered social geography of reurbanisation and new‐build gentrification in Toronto, through qualitative research into women's experiences…
Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
"Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of cities. Reports claimed that condominium ownership offered women new-found freedom, financial independence, and personal security. But has home ownership truly empowered women, or were the reports merely celebratory rhetoric that disguised more disquieting trends?" "To get at the reality behind the rhetor…
Selling the 'scary city: Gendering Freedom, Fear and Condominium Development in the Neoliberal City
In contemporary postindustrial cities, urban revitalization policies are discursively linked, in part, to urban fears and relations of threat. In Toronto, these tensions are inscribed in the city through new-build gentrification in the form of condominium development, a process that has created tens of thousands of securitized residential spaces. These spaces, I suggest, are produced in part through gendered ideologies about cities, bodies, safet…
Connecting embodiment, emotion and gentrification: An exploration through the practice of yoga in Toronto
All aboard? Women working the spaces of gentrification in Toronto's Junction
Despite early attention being paid to the connections amongst ‘gender, work and gentrification’ in the urban geography literature, there have been few attempts to examine the experiences of women as workers in gentrifying neighbourhoods. This gap leaves open critical questions about the nature of the links between the production of gendered work practices and the production of gentrified urban landscapes. In this article, I explore how women work…
Feminist research in online spaces
The Internet is growing in popularity as a research site and is often framed as the next frontier in human subjects research. The opportunities the Internet provides for political organizing, making personal experiences more public, and creating spaces for a variety of voices makes it particularly relevant to feminist geographers and researchers such as ourselves. However, many qualitative researchers approach online research as though the Intern…
A collective biography of joy in academic practice
Changing working conditions at many universities over the past decade have meant longer hours, intensified record-keeping, and more precarious employment. Despite these changes, many academics still insist that we enjoy our jobs. Our inquiry is oriented toward spaces and practices that bring us joy in our daily work and help us withstand the negative effects of working in academia. This article reports on our exploration of some moments of joy at…
From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body
This paper takes up the challenge of extending and enhancing the literature on environmental gentrification by considering bodies and embodied practices as significant dimensions of this process. In considering the question of how a polluted past can be mobilized as an asset for neighbourhood rebranding and gentrification, this research suggests that the conflation of both pollution and 'health' with different kinds of urban bodies and practices …
Practicing Collective Biography
Collective biography uses researchers' written memories about a set of experiences as texts for collective analysis. As a feminist approach to research, collective biography draws centrally on the idea that significant memories are critical in the constitution of the self, and maintains that in analyzing memories collectively, researchers can begin to tap into wider social processes and structures. Though rarely used in geography, collective biog…
Rhythms of gentrification: Eventfulness and Slow Violence in a Happening Neighbourhood
Gentrification involves the transformation of neighbourhood social spaces in ways that remake place in line with the needs and desires of new residents and capital investors. While spatial transformations have been well documented in the gentrification literature, temporality has rarely been foregrounded, although social space is also altered by privileging new rhythms and tempos of everyday life. Using a case study of Toronto's gentrifying Junct…
I Choose to be Here”: Tensions between Autonomy and Precarity in Craft Market Vendors’ Work
Outdoor markets have emerged as key nodes in cities’ attempts to revitalize downtown areas through culture and consumption. However, few studies have investigated urban markets as sites of labor, or explored work conditions from the perspective of vendors themselves. As self–employed creative workers in a seasonal industry, artisan vendors experience various forms of economic insecurity related to precarity inherent to their line of work. This ar…
Feminist Interventions: Anglophone World
Feminist interventions explore and theorize gendered experiences of urban life, and conceptualize the complex relationship between urban space and social relations of difference and inequality. Addressing urban themes such as housing, labor, planning, safety, transportation, care work, social reproduction, and the public/private distinction, anglophone feminists have illustrated the significance of gender in shaping cities over time. Methodologic…
Stories we tell
In this commentary, I respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ in a moment of intense ‘otherwise-ness’ as a global pandemic upends daily life in a variety of mundane and profound ways. Provoked by Ruez and Cockayne to take up the idea of the stories we tell, I reflect on ambivalence and writing into a world deeply undecided. Although it is not hard to detect accounts of this crisis at both the ‘paranoid’ and affirmative ends of an affec…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Gentrification (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works)