Janna Klostermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 313453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janna Klostermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janna |
| FAMILY NAME | Klostermann |
| SIGNATURE | KLOSTERMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7376-8745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Health equity, consensual care and the work that survivors of violence do to navigate healthcare services
Care containers: The multilayered politics of boundless work in Canada’s victim services sector
Bounding the boundless: Gendered work hierarchies and “boundless work” in Ontario longterm care homes
More than a visitor? Rethinking metaphors for family care in long-term care homes
Recent public and policy interventions aim to recognise formally the contributions of family care-givers to long-term residential care in Canada, with some arguing family carers are more than visitors and should be recognised as essential care-givers. These developments call for reconsidering how family care roles are understood and operationalised. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in three care homes in Ontario, Canada, we present an i…
Producing the public caregiver: The discursive politicization of family caregiving by Canadian caregiver organizations
How are problems of family/friend care framed and politicized, and with what socio-political implications? This feminist rhetorical analysis examines how carers are positioned, how problems and solutions of care are framed, and how carers’ social and political rights are supported by Canadian caregiver organizations. Organizations’ public materials draw on and expand narratives that foreground individual risk and recognition, decentring the state…
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to research on work and care. This article details how we reconfigured the Household Portrait - a qualitative, participatory, visual, creative method that engages couples in mapping and discussing their household and care tasks and responsibilities - int…
The Problems with Care: A Feminist Care Scholar Retrospective
Seeking to support qualitative researchers in the artful development of feminist care scholarship, our goal here is to ‘look back’ on how we have conceptualized the problems of care and developed research that illuminates the social organization of care in distinct ways. As part of a ‘feminist care scholar retrospective’, we present five condensed ‘reverse research proposals’, which are retrospective accounts of past research or scholarly activit…
Remembering George W. Smith’s “Life Work”: From Politico-Administrative Regimes to Living Otherwise
This article revisits activist ethnographer George W. Smith’s intellectual and political legacy, with a focus on his engagement with and conception of “life work.” In the context of the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith contributed to reframing the way in which AIDS was problematized and confronted. Rather than treating people living with HIV/AIDS as “disease vectors” to be isolated from the general population, as had been the …
Working the Project: Research Proposals and Everyday Practices for Emerging Feminist Researchers
Seeking to support graduate students in engaging in feminist sociological research, we provide guidance on "working the project"-working collaboratively and creatively to foster compassion and solidarity as we bring diverse research projects to fruition. We offer reflections on our everyday experiences and struggles as emerging feminist researchers, including with writing research proposals. We also include four condensed research proposals - on …
Investigating the organizational everyday: A critical feminist approach
This article considers the possibilities and limits of applying institutional ethnography, a feminist theoretical and methodological approach that contributes to collective projects of investigating and transforming social life. Elaborating on the approach, the article reports on an ethnographic exploration of visual artists’ experiences and struggles in Canada's art world – a project that started from the standpoint of practising visual artists,…
Art, ordinary work and conceptuality: Sculpting the social relations of the art world
This research reveals the social relations of the art world through an investigation of visual artists’ ordinary art-making practices. Drawing on extended ethnographic research, the article attends to art and ordinary work, clarifying how visual artists’ work, is not only shaped socially and historically, but also reveals tensions about what counts as art and who counts as an artist. The article clarifies how today’s art world valorises conceptua…
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People Janna Klostermann (bio) There was something aboutthe way my yoga-loving,jog-on-your-lunch-break,public-servant friend Lauriespotted me plowing through amaple cream donut and cheered, Aw, honey, good for you!There was something aboutthe way Mrs. Miracle Network TVJoyce Meyer heralded, No scripting here; it's all done by the Holy Spirit.There was something aboutthe way the captain of thePeterborough Petes whi…
Mistaking the Great for the Alienated
Mistaking the Great for the Alienated Janna Klostermann For the 2004 Crestwood Secondary School valedictorian Mistaking the Great for the AlienatedJanna KlostermannFor the 2004 Crestwood Secondary School valedictorianOne who is alienatedno longer owns his world, his words.Yet, we clapped and clapped,championing your alienation.You, our valedictorian,held the key to success.Employment, even.You, our valedictorian,were destined for greatness.From W…
Investigating the organizational everyday: A critical feminist approach
This article considers the possibilities and limits of applying institutional ethnography, a feminist theoretical and methodological approach that contributes to collective projects of investigating and transforming social life. Elaborating on the approach, the article reports on an ethnographic exploration of visual artists’ experiences and struggles in Canada's art world – a project that started from the standpoint of practising visual artists,…
The Problems with Care: A Feminist Care Scholar Retrospective
Seeking to support qualitative researchers in the artful development of feminist care scholarship, our goal here is to ‘look back’ on how we have conceptualized the problems of care and developed research that illuminates the social organization of care in distinct ways. As part of a ‘feminist care scholar retrospective’, we present five condensed ‘reverse research proposals’, which are retrospective accounts of past research or scholarly activit…
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to research on work and care. This article details how we reconfigured the Household Portrait - a qualitative, participatory, visual, creative method that engages couples in mapping and discussing their household and care tasks and responsibilities - int…
Remembering George W. Smith’s “Life Work”: From Politico-Administrative Regimes to Living Otherwise
This article revisits activist ethnographer George W. Smith’s intellectual and political legacy, with a focus on his engagement with and conception of “life work.” In the context of the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith contributed to reframing the way in which AIDS was problematized and confronted. Rather than treating people living with HIV/AIDS as “disease vectors” to be isolated from the general population, as had been the …
More than a visitor? Rethinking metaphors for family care in long-term care homes
Recent public and policy interventions aim to recognise formally the contributions of family care-givers to long-term residential care in Canada, with some arguing family carers are more than visitors and should be recognised as essential care-givers. These developments call for reconsidering how family care roles are understood and operationalised. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in three care homes in Ontario, Canada, we present an i…
Working the Project: Research Proposals and Everyday Practices for Emerging Feminist Researchers
Seeking to support graduate students in engaging in feminist sociological research, we provide guidance on "working the project"-working collaboratively and creatively to foster compassion and solidarity as we bring diverse research projects to fruition. We offer reflections on our everyday experiences and struggles as emerging feminist researchers, including with writing research proposals. We also include four condensed research proposals - on …
Producing the public caregiver: The discursive politicization of family caregiving by Canadian caregiver organizations
How are problems of family/friend care framed and politicized, and with what socio-political implications? This feminist rhetorical analysis examines how carers are positioned, how problems and solutions of care are framed, and how carers’ social and political rights are supported by Canadian caregiver organizations. Organizations’ public materials draw on and expand narratives that foreground individual risk and recognition, decentring the state…
Art, ordinary work and conceptuality: Sculpting the social relations of the art world
This research reveals the social relations of the art world through an investigation of visual artists’ ordinary art-making practices. Drawing on extended ethnographic research, the article attends to art and ordinary work, clarifying how visual artists’ work, is not only shaped socially and historically, but also reveals tensions about what counts as art and who counts as an artist. The article clarifies how today’s art world valorises conceptua…
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People Janna Klostermann (bio) There was something aboutthe way my yoga-loving,jog-on-your-lunch-break,public-servant friend Lauriespotted me plowing through amaple cream donut and cheered, Aw, honey, good for you!There was something aboutthe way Mrs. Miracle Network TVJoyce Meyer heralded, No scripting here; it's all done by the Holy Spirit.There was something aboutthe way the captain of thePeterborough Petes whi…
Mistaking the Great for the Alienated
Mistaking the Great for the Alienated Janna Klostermann For the 2004 Crestwood Secondary School valedictorian Mistaking the Great for the AlienatedJanna KlostermannFor the 2004 Crestwood Secondary School valedictorianOne who is alienatedno longer owns his world, his words.Yet, we clapped and clapped,championing your alienation.You, our valedictorian,held the key to success.Employment, even.You, our valedictorian,were destined for greatness.From W…
Investigating the organizational everyday: A critical feminist approach
This article considers the possibilities and limits of applying institutional ethnography, a feminist theoretical and methodological approach that contributes to collective projects of investigating and transforming social life. Elaborating on the approach, the article reports on an ethnographic exploration of visual artists’ experiences and struggles in Canada's art world – a project that started from the standpoint of practising visual artists,…
Remembering George W. Smith’s “Life Work”: From Politico-Administrative Regimes to Living Otherwise
This article revisits activist ethnographer George W. Smith’s intellectual and political legacy, with a focus on his engagement with and conception of “life work.” In the context of the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith contributed to reframing the way in which AIDS was problematized and confronted. Rather than treating people living with HIV/AIDS as “disease vectors” to be isolated from the general population, as had been the …
Working the Project: Research Proposals and Everyday Practices for Emerging Feminist Researchers
Seeking to support graduate students in engaging in feminist sociological research, we provide guidance on "working the project"-working collaboratively and creatively to foster compassion and solidarity as we bring diverse research projects to fruition. We offer reflections on our everyday experiences and struggles as emerging feminist researchers, including with writing research proposals. We also include four condensed research proposals - on …
The Problems with Care: A Feminist Care Scholar Retrospective
Seeking to support qualitative researchers in the artful development of feminist care scholarship, our goal here is to ‘look back’ on how we have conceptualized the problems of care and developed research that illuminates the social organization of care in distinct ways. As part of a ‘feminist care scholar retrospective’, we present five condensed ‘reverse research proposals’, which are retrospective accounts of past research or scholarly activit…
Bounding the boundless: Gendered work hierarchies and “boundless work” in Ontario longterm care homes
More than a visitor? Rethinking metaphors for family care in long-term care homes
Recent public and policy interventions aim to recognise formally the contributions of family care-givers to long-term residential care in Canada, with some arguing family carers are more than visitors and should be recognised as essential care-givers. These developments call for reconsidering how family care roles are understood and operationalised. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in three care homes in Ontario, Canada, we present an i…
Producing the public caregiver: The discursive politicization of family caregiving by Canadian caregiver organizations
How are problems of family/friend care framed and politicized, and with what socio-political implications? This feminist rhetorical analysis examines how carers are positioned, how problems and solutions of care are framed, and how carers’ social and political rights are supported by Canadian caregiver organizations. Organizations’ public materials draw on and expand narratives that foreground individual risk and recognition, decentring the state…
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to research on work and care. This article details how we reconfigured the Household Portrait - a qualitative, participatory, visual, creative method that engages couples in mapping and discussing their household and care tasks and responsibilities - int…
Care containers: The multilayered politics of boundless work in Canada’s victim services sector
Health equity, consensual care and the work that survivors of violence do to navigate healthcare services
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Care work (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)