Roberta Hawkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Hawkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawkins |
| SIGNATURE | HAWKINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Exploring more‐than‐human ethics and the digital dimensions of nature recovery through an interactive fiction game
This perspective piece considers how a more‐than‐human approach to ethics can foster nuanced, critical understandings of the digital dimensions of nature recovery. A more‐than‐human approach expands on who or what is included as ethical actors while focusing on the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman experiences. First, we discuss what more‐than‐human ethics involve, the opportunities they provide for analysis and practice, as well as what l…
Practicing feminist approaches to social media research
In this paper we answer a question that has collectively plagued us for some time: How can we design social media research projects to better centre feminist research ethics? As a site where data is produced about everyday embodied experiences, in relation to places and natures, social media is frequently used in geographic research. Ethical issues emerge related to private/public data, confidentiality, and consent, especially in cases where soci…
Creating “wiggle room”
Accessorizing development
Individuals in the Global North wishing to support people in the Global South can purchase a fundraising bracelet in order to ‘change lives’. This article examines the use of fundraising bracelets for International Development (FBID) as a form of ‘New Development Responsibility’. We illustrate through a database and critical discourse analysis that FBID campaigns are a distinctly feminized version of ID aid where women are engaged as consumers, c…
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth
The number and variety of technologies used for environmental surveillance is expanding rapidly, making constant data collection and near 'real time' analyses possible. 'Smart Earth' describes networked infrastructures comprised of devices and equipment and signals to the human dimensions inherent to developing, deploying and putting technology and large datasets to use. In this paper, we situate Smart Earth in terms of technological products and…
Feminist digital natures
This commentary proposes a research agenda for the concept of feminist digital natures (FDN). To demonstrate how we see FDN connecting existing research efforts, we review both the well-established and much-needed work in three overlapping areas of scholarship where we see the potential for productive discussions, new questions, and empirical analysis: feminist digital geographies (FDG), digital natures (DN), and feminist political ecology (FPE).…
From the nice work to the hard work
CareMongering is a virtually organized community‐based response to COVID‐19 formed in Canada in March 2020, in response to growing concerns about the pandemic. The goal of CareMongering is to care for community members, particularly those experiencing social exclusion, by organizing groups at a local level to support access to basic necessities, services, and resources (e.g., providing groceries and childcare to frontline workers). Following from…
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism
Volunteer tourism is a feminized sector of international travel, comprised of a four to one ratio of women to men. Using feminist concepts and drawing on data from in-depth interviews with former volunteer tourists, this paper uses a gender lens to explore how volunteer tourists’ gendered and racialized subjectivities shape and are shaped by their experiences while volunteering in the Global South with development-focused projects. We argue that:…
Ethical consumption? There's an app for that. Digital technologies and everyday consumption practices
Ethical consumption mobile phone apps are increasingly popular. These apps allow consumers to scan the barcodes of products they are considering purchasing and determine whether or not they align with their ethics. App technologies are often applauded for their potential to provide consumers with targeted, crowd‐sourced information about products while shopping and to foster more political, and less individualistic, consumption practices by conne…
Gender, nature and nation
A number of media companies in the United States broadcast reality TV series that chronicle lives, conflicts and economic highs and lows in the primary sector of the economy. This is curious from a cultural standpoint because employment in the primary sector has plateaued, and, in many regions, is in active decline. This paper examines primary sector reality TV series about fishing, logging and mining televised to audiences in the United States b…
The responsibilization of "development consumers" through cause-related marketing campaigns
Cause-related marketing (CRM) campaigns that combine consumption in the Global North with international development causes in the Global South are an increasingly popular phenomenon, which link consumption by individuals to broader social issues. In this paper, we explore the use of development-focused CRM campaigns by social enterprises. We highlight the ways in which CRM represents a form of neoliberal consumerism and how the various strategies…
Breaking Down Barriers of Culture and Geography? Caring-at-a-Distance through Web 2.0
This article analyzes Join My Village (JMV), an NGO-corporation partnership that aims to “break down barriers of culture and geography” using the “power of online communities.” JMV uses Web 2.0 technologies to entice online users in the USA to engage with content about women’s lives in Malawi. Each time a user clicks on JMV content, the corporate partners donate money to the NGO. Using discourse analysis and interviews, I examine how JMV encourag…
Breaking the silence
Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there are cultural, institutional, political, and intersectional factors that impede active engagement with mental health and wellness in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider mental health and wellness as professional development issues of concern to us all
From selfie to #sealfie
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…
Shifting conceptualizations of ethical consumption
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…
I’m not trying to save fish, I’m trying to save dinner
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…
Paradoxes of ethically branded bottled water
This paper draws attention to the growing role of corporate marketing in the cultural production of crisis narratives. We examine ethically branded bottled water products that encourage the purchase of bottled water as one means of solving the global water crisis. The brands make a donation to a development organization addressing water issues each time a bottle of water is purchased. Through this process consumers are encouraged to 'save lives' …
A New Frontier in Development? The use of cause-related marketing by international development organisations
This paper examines cause-related marketing (crm) initiatives where the purchase of a product by a North American consumer triggers a donation from a corporation to an international development organisation. crm is quickly gaining in popularity within the non-profit sector. It is now a common means for raising funds and awareness and as such has been deemed a ‘new frontier in development aid’ yet this ‘new frontier’ has received little academic a…
Shopping to save lives
One Pack = One Vaccine’ = one global motherhood? A feminist analysis of ethical consumption
This article is inspired by a recent television commercial for Pampers (a brand of disposable diapers) which announces that by buying this brand of diapers ‘you can help the world's babies in need, because one pack of Pampers equals one life saving vaccine’. This commercial promotes the ‘One Pack = One Vaccine’ initiative between Pampers and UNICEF, a cause-related marketing (CRM) campaign that supplies a tetanus vaccine to a woman in the South w…
A Discussion
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…
A Discussion
From selfie to #sealfie
Shopping to save lives
The responsibilization of "development consumers" through cause-related marketing campaigns
Cause-related marketing (CRM) campaigns that combine consumption in the Global North with international development causes in the Global South are an increasingly popular phenomenon, which link consumption by individuals to broader social issues. In this paper, we explore the use of development-focused CRM campaigns by social enterprises. We highlight the ways in which CRM represents a form of neoliberal consumerism and how the various strategies…
Gender and Water in Mongolia
Global institutions, academics, and practitioners have long acknowledged the need to consider gender in creating sustainable water management plans. However, for most countries a dearth of context-specific information on gender and water relations hinders gender-sensitive plan development. Mongolia is particularly poorly represented in the gender and water literature. This article presents fieldwork revealing distinctive gendered practices around…
I’m not trying to save fish, I’m trying to save dinner
From the nice work to the hard work
CareMongering is a virtually organized community‐based response to COVID‐19 formed in Canada in March 2020, in response to growing concerns about the pandemic. The goal of CareMongering is to care for community members, particularly those experiencing social exclusion, by organizing groups at a local level to support access to basic necessities, services, and resources (e.g., providing groceries and childcare to frontline workers). Following from…
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
One Pack = One Vaccine’ = one global motherhood? A feminist analysis of ethical consumption
This article is inspired by a recent television commercial for Pampers (a brand of disposable diapers) which announces that by buying this brand of diapers ‘you can help the world's babies in need, because one pack of Pampers equals one life saving vaccine’. This commercial promotes the ‘One Pack = One Vaccine’ initiative between Pampers and UNICEF, a cause-related marketing (CRM) campaign that supplies a tetanus vaccine to a woman in the South w…
Breaking Down Barriers of Culture and Geography? Caring-at-a-Distance through Web 2.0
This article analyzes Join My Village (JMV), an NGO-corporation partnership that aims to “break down barriers of culture and geography” using the “power of online communities.” JMV uses Web 2.0 technologies to entice online users in the USA to engage with content about women’s lives in Malawi. Each time a user clicks on JMV content, the corporate partners donate money to the NGO. Using discourse analysis and interviews, I examine how JMV encourag…
Shifting conceptualizations of ethical consumption
Paradoxes of ethically branded bottled water
This paper draws attention to the growing role of corporate marketing in the cultural production of crisis narratives. We examine ethically branded bottled water products that encourage the purchase of bottled water as one means of solving the global water crisis. The brands make a donation to a development organization addressing water issues each time a bottle of water is purchased. Through this process consumers are encouraged to 'save lives' …
A New Frontier in Development? The use of cause-related marketing by international development organisations
This paper examines cause-related marketing (crm) initiatives where the purchase of a product by a North American consumer triggers a donation from a corporation to an international development organisation. crm is quickly gaining in popularity within the non-profit sector. It is now a common means for raising funds and awareness and as such has been deemed a ‘new frontier in development aid’ yet this ‘new frontier’ has received little academic a…
Feminist digital natures
This commentary proposes a research agenda for the concept of feminist digital natures (FDN). To demonstrate how we see FDN connecting existing research efforts, we review both the well-established and much-needed work in three overlapping areas of scholarship where we see the potential for productive discussions, new questions, and empirical analysis: feminist digital geographies (FDG), digital natures (DN), and feminist political ecology (FPE).…
Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism
Volunteer tourism is a feminized sector of international travel, comprised of a four to one ratio of women to men. Using feminist concepts and drawing on data from in-depth interviews with former volunteer tourists, this paper uses a gender lens to explore how volunteer tourists’ gendered and racialized subjectivities shape and are shaped by their experiences while volunteering in the Global South with development-focused projects. We argue that:…
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth
The number and variety of technologies used for environmental surveillance is expanding rapidly, making constant data collection and near 'real time' analyses possible. 'Smart Earth' describes networked infrastructures comprised of devices and equipment and signals to the human dimensions inherent to developing, deploying and putting technology and large datasets to use. In this paper, we situate Smart Earth in terms of technological products and…
Breaking the silence
Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there are cultural, institutional, political, and intersectional factors that impede active engagement with mental health and wellness in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider mental health and wellness as professional development issues of concern to us all
Creating “wiggle room”
Gender, nature and nation
A number of media companies in the United States broadcast reality TV series that chronicle lives, conflicts and economic highs and lows in the primary sector of the economy. This is curious from a cultural standpoint because employment in the primary sector has plateaued, and, in many regions, is in active decline. This paper examines primary sector reality TV series about fishing, logging and mining televised to audiences in the United States b…
Ethical consumption? There's an app for that. Digital technologies and everyday consumption practices
Ethical consumption mobile phone apps are increasingly popular. These apps allow consumers to scan the barcodes of products they are considering purchasing and determine whether or not they align with their ethics. App technologies are often applauded for their potential to provide consumers with targeted, crowd‐sourced information about products while shopping and to foster more political, and less individualistic, consumption practices by conne…
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…
Gender and Water in Mongolia
Global institutions, academics, and practitioners have long acknowledged the need to consider gender in creating sustainable water management plans. However, for most countries a dearth of context-specific information on gender and water relations hinders gender-sensitive plan development. Mongolia is particularly poorly represented in the gender and water literature. This article presents fieldwork revealing distinctive gendered practices around…
Where One Stands
Solution-processed organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites have recently emerged as promising gain media for tunable semiconductor lasers. However, optically pumped continuous-wave lasing at room temperature, a prerequisite for a laser diode, has not been realized so far. Here, we report lasing action in a surface-emitting distributed feedback methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ) perovskite laser on a silicon substrate at room temperature unde…
One Pack = One Vaccine’ = one global motherhood? A feminist analysis of ethical consumption
This article is inspired by a recent television commercial for Pampers (a brand of disposable diapers) which announces that by buying this brand of diapers ‘you can help the world's babies in need, because one pack of Pampers equals one life saving vaccine’. This commercial promotes the ‘One Pack = One Vaccine’ initiative between Pampers and UNICEF, a cause-related marketing (CRM) campaign that supplies a tetanus vaccine to a woman in the South w…
A Discussion
A New Frontier in Development? The use of cause-related marketing by international development organisations
This paper examines cause-related marketing (crm) initiatives where the purchase of a product by a North American consumer triggers a donation from a corporation to an international development organisation. crm is quickly gaining in popularity within the non-profit sector. It is now a common means for raising funds and awareness and as such has been deemed a ‘new frontier in development aid’ yet this ‘new frontier’ has received little academic a…
Shopping to save lives
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…
I’m not trying to save fish, I’m trying to save dinner
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…
Paradoxes of ethically branded bottled water
This paper draws attention to the growing role of corporate marketing in the cultural production of crisis narratives. We examine ethically branded bottled water products that encourage the purchase of bottled water as one means of solving the global water crisis. The brands make a donation to a development organization addressing water issues each time a bottle of water is purchased. Through this process consumers are encouraged to 'save lives' …
Shifting conceptualizations of ethical consumption
Breaking the silence
Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there are cultural, institutional, political, and intersectional factors that impede active engagement with mental health and wellness in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider mental health and wellness as professional development issues of concern to us all
From selfie to #sealfie
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…
Breaking Down Barriers of Culture and Geography? Caring-at-a-Distance through Web 2.0
This article analyzes Join My Village (JMV), an NGO-corporation partnership that aims to “break down barriers of culture and geography” using the “power of online communities.” JMV uses Web 2.0 technologies to entice online users in the USA to engage with content about women’s lives in Malawi. Each time a user clicks on JMV content, the corporate partners donate money to the NGO. Using discourse analysis and interviews, I examine how JMV encourag…
The responsibilization of "development consumers" through cause-related marketing campaigns
Cause-related marketing (CRM) campaigns that combine consumption in the Global North with international development causes in the Global South are an increasingly popular phenomenon, which link consumption by individuals to broader social issues. In this paper, we explore the use of development-focused CRM campaigns by social enterprises. We highlight the ways in which CRM represents a form of neoliberal consumerism and how the various strategies…
Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism
Volunteer tourism is a feminized sector of international travel, comprised of a four to one ratio of women to men. Using feminist concepts and drawing on data from in-depth interviews with former volunteer tourists, this paper uses a gender lens to explore how volunteer tourists’ gendered and racialized subjectivities shape and are shaped by their experiences while volunteering in the Global South with development-focused projects. We argue that:…
Ethical consumption? There's an app for that. Digital technologies and everyday consumption practices
Ethical consumption mobile phone apps are increasingly popular. These apps allow consumers to scan the barcodes of products they are considering purchasing and determine whether or not they align with their ethics. App technologies are often applauded for their potential to provide consumers with targeted, crowd‐sourced information about products while shopping and to foster more political, and less individualistic, consumption practices by conne…
Gender, nature and nation
A number of media companies in the United States broadcast reality TV series that chronicle lives, conflicts and economic highs and lows in the primary sector of the economy. This is curious from a cultural standpoint because employment in the primary sector has plateaued, and, in many regions, is in active decline. This paper examines primary sector reality TV series about fishing, logging and mining televised to audiences in the United States b…
From the nice work to the hard work
CareMongering is a virtually organized community‐based response to COVID‐19 formed in Canada in March 2020, in response to growing concerns about the pandemic. The goal of CareMongering is to care for community members, particularly those experiencing social exclusion, by organizing groups at a local level to support access to basic necessities, services, and resources (e.g., providing groceries and childcare to frontline workers). Following from…
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
Accessorizing development
Individuals in the Global North wishing to support people in the Global South can purchase a fundraising bracelet in order to ‘change lives’. This article examines the use of fundraising bracelets for International Development (FBID) as a form of ‘New Development Responsibility’. We illustrate through a database and critical discourse analysis that FBID campaigns are a distinctly feminized version of ID aid where women are engaged as consumers, c…
Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth
The number and variety of technologies used for environmental surveillance is expanding rapidly, making constant data collection and near 'real time' analyses possible. 'Smart Earth' describes networked infrastructures comprised of devices and equipment and signals to the human dimensions inherent to developing, deploying and putting technology and large datasets to use. In this paper, we situate Smart Earth in terms of technological products and…
Feminist digital natures
This commentary proposes a research agenda for the concept of feminist digital natures (FDN). To demonstrate how we see FDN connecting existing research efforts, we review both the well-established and much-needed work in three overlapping areas of scholarship where we see the potential for productive discussions, new questions, and empirical analysis: feminist digital geographies (FDG), digital natures (DN), and feminist political ecology (FPE).…
Creating “wiggle room”
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (7 works)