Kathryn Gillespie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Gillespie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5272-392X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Interrupting a cycle of placement instability with short-term residential care: Trauma-informed family-like relational practice in one specialist unit
Continuous caring relationships are crucial to the wellbeing of children living in out-of-home care, with the family environment of long-term foster care usually the preferred placement for achieving relational permanence. Some children, however, experience a cycle of instability with the impact of placement disruption exacerbating emotional and behavioural difficulties and thereby undermining subsequent foster relationships. This paper reports o…
Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted
The use of digital communication technology by children residing in out-of-home care or adopted from foster care has mainly been approached hesitantly and from a risk paradigm. The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed many digital and social work intersections, including practices used for birth family contact where in-person visits were supplemented or replaced with ‘virtual’ contact via digital devices. Whilst technology-mediated contact is characterise…
An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins
Colonial-capitalist animal agriculture is a site of ruin and a process of ruination. Farmed animals at the heart of these agricultural systems become sites of production and capital accumulation, their bodies genetically coded for commoditization and their short lives organized around logics of extraction. Farmed animals in settler states like the United States are simultaneously colonized subjects and settler-descendants and, as such, occupy a c…
For multispecies autoethnography
This article makes the case for multispecies autoethnography as a methodological approach in qualitative research involving other species. Multispecies autoethnography can work to address the persistent anthropocentrism in multispecies methods and offer a richer understanding of the way humans are implicated in the lives and deaths of other animals. I use a brief sketch of the experience of raising "backyard chickens" to illustrate what multispec…
The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting-worlds
This article engages with Rosemary-Claire Collard and Jessica Dempsey's theory of lively commodities in a discussion of cows raised for dairy exchanged in farmed-animal auctions. Taking their theorization of the lively commodity as a starting point to better understand the commodification of nonhuman life, I propose an extension of this work that attends to a continuum of commodity forms understood through the life and death of the cow. Cows rais…
Gender-transformative programming with men and boys to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights: A systematic review of intervention studies
Placing Angola
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is a site embedded with historical legacies of plantation slavery and settler colonialism; as the largest maximum state security penitentiary in the United States, the prison also reflects the racial injustice of contemporary US mass incarceration. Situated on the site of an old plantation, the prison hosts the Angola Rodeo twice a year, an event that crystallizes violent multispecies social relations in …
Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)Making of the Settler Nation-State
As the pendulum swings toward a sweeping global conservatism, conversations proliferate on the consequences of rampant nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments and policies. These anx
Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field
Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role…
The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
Placing Angola: Racialisation, Anthropocentrism, and Settler Colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary's Angola Rodeo
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is a site embedded with historical legacies of plantation slavery and settler colonialism; as the largest maximum security penitentiary in the United States, the prison also reflects the racial injustice of contemporary US mass incarceration. Situated on the site of an old plantation, the prison hosts the Angola Rodeo twice a year, an event that crystallises violent multispecies social relations in the me…
My Dog is My Home: Multispecies care and poverty politics in Los Angeles, California and Austin, Texas
My Dog is My Home is an art activist project in Los Angeles dedicated to sharing testimonies about the redemptive bonds of care and love between homeless persons and their canine companions. These testimonies politicize the structural violence and oppressive norms about propertied citizenship and notions of home that operate to render homeless human and animal lives disposable and ungrievable. Informed by the experts’ testimonies on multispecies …
A love story: For ‘Buddy System’ research in the academy
This article makes a case for a ‘buddy system’ approach to research and scholarship, or a kind of ‘caring with’ our colleagues, as feminist praxis and as an intentional, politicized response to the neoliberalization of the academy. Through autoethnographic writing on our travels together into farmed animal auction yards, we explain the buddy system as a mode of caring, solidarity, and love that differs from collaborative research, focused as it i…
Witnessing Animal Others: Bearing Witness, Grief, and the Political Function of Emotion
This article theorizes the politics of witnessing and grief in the context of the embodied experience of cows raised for dairy in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Bearing witness to the mundane features of dairy production and their impact on cows' physical and emotional worlds enables us to understand the violence of commodification and the political dimensions of witnessing the suffering of an Other. I argue that greater attention should…
Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, intersections, and hierarchies in a multispecies world
Anarchism is the purity of rebellion.A pig who struggles wildly and rends that air with his cries while he is held to be slaughtered, and a baby who kicks and screams when, wanting warmth and his mother's breast, he is made to wait in the cold -these are two samples of natural rebellion.Natural rebellion always inspires either deep sympathy and identification with the rebelling creative, or a stiffening of the heart and an activation of aggressiv…
Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death
1. Introducing Economies of Death 2. The Currency of Grief: 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention 3. The Cost of a Second Chance: Life, Death, and Redemption among Prison Inmates and Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses in Bluegrass Kentucky 4. The Administration of Death: Killing and Letting Die during the Cambodian Genocide 5. Is the Puerto Rican Parrot Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of Endangerment and Grievability 6. Deep Inside Dogs Know…
Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World
Global Atmospheres of Violence: Shifting Terrains of Othering in Ecofeminist Multispecies Witnessing
Sexualized violence and the gendered commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production
This article draws on a case study of bovine life in the US dairy industry to observe the power relations and violent networks of commodification involved. I use the terms gendered commodification and sexualized violence to understand the lives of animals in the industry and the discourses that are employed to reproduce its practices. Focusing on sex and gender, concepts which have long been classic in feminist geography, this article explores th…
How Happy is Your Meat? Confronting (Dis)connectedness in the ‘Alternative’ Meat Industry
The rise of ‘happy meat’ and support for small farmers has gained popularity in the alternative food movement in response to concerns about the industrialized meat industry. Looking at slaughter in the alternative meat movement, this article identifies three types of disconnectedness: socio-spatial, aesthetic, and connected. Socio-spatial disconnection is explored here through an analysis of the Mobile Slaughter Unit as a practice of slaughter al…
Sexualized violence and the gendered commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production
This article draws on a case study of bovine life in the US dairy industry to observe the power relations and violent networks of commodification involved. I use the terms gendered commodification and sexualized violence to understand the lives of animals in the industry and the discourses that are employed to reproduce its practices. Focusing on sex and gender, concepts which have long been classic in feminist geography, this article explores th…
The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting-worlds
This article engages with Rosemary-Claire Collard and Jessica Dempsey's theory of lively commodities in a discussion of cows raised for dairy exchanged in farmed-animal auctions. Taking their theorization of the lively commodity as a starting point to better understand the commodification of nonhuman life, I propose an extension of this work that attends to a continuum of commodity forms understood through the life and death of the cow. Cows rais…
Witnessing Animal Others: Bearing Witness, Grief, and the Political Function of Emotion
This article theorizes the politics of witnessing and grief in the context of the embodied experience of cows raised for dairy in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Bearing witness to the mundane features of dairy production and their impact on cows' physical and emotional worlds enables us to understand the violence of commodification and the political dimensions of witnessing the suffering of an Other. I argue that greater attention should…
My Dog is My Home: Multispecies care and poverty politics in Los Angeles, California and Austin, Texas
My Dog is My Home is an art activist project in Los Angeles dedicated to sharing testimonies about the redemptive bonds of care and love between homeless persons and their canine companions. These testimonies politicize the structural violence and oppressive norms about propertied citizenship and notions of home that operate to render homeless human and animal lives disposable and ungrievable. Informed by the experts’ testimonies on multispecies …
For multispecies autoethnography
This article makes the case for multispecies autoethnography as a methodological approach in qualitative research involving other species. Multispecies autoethnography can work to address the persistent anthropocentrism in multispecies methods and offer a richer understanding of the way humans are implicated in the lives and deaths of other animals. I use a brief sketch of the experience of raising "backyard chickens" to illustrate what multispec…
Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)Making of the Settler Nation-State
As the pendulum swings toward a sweeping global conservatism, conversations proliferate on the consequences of rampant nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments and policies. These anx
An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins
Colonial-capitalist animal agriculture is a site of ruin and a process of ruination. Farmed animals at the heart of these agricultural systems become sites of production and capital accumulation, their bodies genetically coded for commoditization and their short lives organized around logics of extraction. Farmed animals in settler states like the United States are simultaneously colonized subjects and settler-descendants and, as such, occupy a c…
Placing Angola: Racialisation, Anthropocentrism, and Settler Colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary's Angola Rodeo
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is a site embedded with historical legacies of plantation slavery and settler colonialism; as the largest maximum security penitentiary in the United States, the prison also reflects the racial injustice of contemporary US mass incarceration. Situated on the site of an old plantation, the prison hosts the Angola Rodeo twice a year, an event that crystallises violent multispecies social relations in the me…
A love story: For ‘Buddy System’ research in the academy
This article makes a case for a ‘buddy system’ approach to research and scholarship, or a kind of ‘caring with’ our colleagues, as feminist praxis and as an intentional, politicized response to the neoliberalization of the academy. Through autoethnographic writing on our travels together into farmed animal auction yards, we explain the buddy system as a mode of caring, solidarity, and love that differs from collaborative research, focused as it i…
How Happy is Your Meat? Confronting (Dis)connectedness in the ‘Alternative’ Meat Industry
The rise of ‘happy meat’ and support for small farmers has gained popularity in the alternative food movement in response to concerns about the industrialized meat industry. Looking at slaughter in the alternative meat movement, this article identifies three types of disconnectedness: socio-spatial, aesthetic, and connected. Socio-spatial disconnection is explored here through an analysis of the Mobile Slaughter Unit as a practice of slaughter al…
Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted
The use of digital communication technology by children residing in out-of-home care or adopted from foster care has mainly been approached hesitantly and from a risk paradigm. The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed many digital and social work intersections, including practices used for birth family contact where in-person visits were supplemented or replaced with ‘virtual’ contact via digital devices. Whilst technology-mediated contact is characterise…
How Happy is Your Meat? Confronting (Dis)connectedness in the ‘Alternative’ Meat Industry
The rise of ‘happy meat’ and support for small farmers has gained popularity in the alternative food movement in response to concerns about the industrialized meat industry. Looking at slaughter in the alternative meat movement, this article identifies three types of disconnectedness: socio-spatial, aesthetic, and connected. Socio-spatial disconnection is explored here through an analysis of the Mobile Slaughter Unit as a practice of slaughter al…
Sexualized violence and the gendered commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production
This article draws on a case study of bovine life in the US dairy industry to observe the power relations and violent networks of commodification involved. I use the terms gendered commodification and sexualized violence to understand the lives of animals in the industry and the discourses that are employed to reproduce its practices. Focusing on sex and gender, concepts which have long been classic in feminist geography, this article explores th…
Global Atmospheres of Violence: Shifting Terrains of Othering in Ecofeminist Multispecies Witnessing
Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, intersections, and hierarchies in a multispecies world
Anarchism is the purity of rebellion.A pig who struggles wildly and rends that air with his cries while he is held to be slaughtered, and a baby who kicks and screams when, wanting warmth and his mother's breast, he is made to wait in the cold -these are two samples of natural rebellion.Natural rebellion always inspires either deep sympathy and identification with the rebelling creative, or a stiffening of the heart and an activation of aggressiv…
Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death
1. Introducing Economies of Death 2. The Currency of Grief: 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention 3. The Cost of a Second Chance: Life, Death, and Redemption among Prison Inmates and Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses in Bluegrass Kentucky 4. The Administration of Death: Killing and Letting Die during the Cambodian Genocide 5. Is the Puerto Rican Parrot Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of Endangerment and Grievability 6. Deep Inside Dogs Know…
Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World
A love story: For ‘Buddy System’ research in the academy
This article makes a case for a ‘buddy system’ approach to research and scholarship, or a kind of ‘caring with’ our colleagues, as feminist praxis and as an intentional, politicized response to the neoliberalization of the academy. Through autoethnographic writing on our travels together into farmed animal auction yards, we explain the buddy system as a mode of caring, solidarity, and love that differs from collaborative research, focused as it i…
Witnessing Animal Others: Bearing Witness, Grief, and the Political Function of Emotion
This article theorizes the politics of witnessing and grief in the context of the embodied experience of cows raised for dairy in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Bearing witness to the mundane features of dairy production and their impact on cows' physical and emotional worlds enables us to understand the violence of commodification and the political dimensions of witnessing the suffering of an Other. I argue that greater attention should…
My Dog is My Home: Multispecies care and poverty politics in Los Angeles, California and Austin, Texas
My Dog is My Home is an art activist project in Los Angeles dedicated to sharing testimonies about the redemptive bonds of care and love between homeless persons and their canine companions. These testimonies politicize the structural violence and oppressive norms about propertied citizenship and notions of home that operate to render homeless human and animal lives disposable and ungrievable. Informed by the experts’ testimonies on multispecies …
The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
Placing Angola: Racialisation, Anthropocentrism, and Settler Colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary's Angola Rodeo
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is a site embedded with historical legacies of plantation slavery and settler colonialism; as the largest maximum security penitentiary in the United States, the prison also reflects the racial injustice of contemporary US mass incarceration. Situated on the site of an old plantation, the prison hosts the Angola Rodeo twice a year, an event that crystallises violent multispecies social relations in the me…
Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field
Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role…
Gender-transformative programming with men and boys to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights: A systematic review of intervention studies
Placing Angola
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is a site embedded with historical legacies of plantation slavery and settler colonialism; as the largest maximum state security penitentiary in the United States, the prison also reflects the racial injustice of contemporary US mass incarceration. Situated on the site of an old plantation, the prison hosts the Angola Rodeo twice a year, an event that crystallizes violent multispecies social relations in …
Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)Making of the Settler Nation-State
As the pendulum swings toward a sweeping global conservatism, conversations proliferate on the consequences of rampant nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments and policies. These anx
The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting-worlds
This article engages with Rosemary-Claire Collard and Jessica Dempsey's theory of lively commodities in a discussion of cows raised for dairy exchanged in farmed-animal auctions. Taking their theorization of the lively commodity as a starting point to better understand the commodification of nonhuman life, I propose an extension of this work that attends to a continuum of commodity forms understood through the life and death of the cow. Cows rais…
An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins
Colonial-capitalist animal agriculture is a site of ruin and a process of ruination. Farmed animals at the heart of these agricultural systems become sites of production and capital accumulation, their bodies genetically coded for commoditization and their short lives organized around logics of extraction. Farmed animals in settler states like the United States are simultaneously colonized subjects and settler-descendants and, as such, occupy a c…
For multispecies autoethnography
This article makes the case for multispecies autoethnography as a methodological approach in qualitative research involving other species. Multispecies autoethnography can work to address the persistent anthropocentrism in multispecies methods and offer a richer understanding of the way humans are implicated in the lives and deaths of other animals. I use a brief sketch of the experience of raising "backyard chickens" to illustrate what multispec…
Interrupting a cycle of placement instability with short-term residential care: Trauma-informed family-like relational practice in one specialist unit
Continuous caring relationships are crucial to the wellbeing of children living in out-of-home care, with the family environment of long-term foster care usually the preferred placement for achieving relational permanence. Some children, however, experience a cycle of instability with the impact of placement disruption exacerbating emotional and behavioural difficulties and thereby undermining subsequent foster relationships. This paper reports o…
Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted
The use of digital communication technology by children residing in out-of-home care or adopted from foster care has mainly been approached hesitantly and from a risk paradigm. The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed many digital and social work intersections, including practices used for birth family contact where in-person visits were supplemented or replaced with ‘virtual’ contact via digital devices. Whilst technology-mediated contact is characterise…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)