Constance Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3453-9827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning mutual aid
This essay analyzes how participants within the community fridge movement use social media to facilitate informal learning and organize improvisational food justice through mutual aid. I offer a qualitative analysis of 20 community fridge Instagram accounts from the US and Canada over three years, with attention to how they disrupt dominant food charity discourses – scarcity, saviorism, and surveillance – and disclose tensions with sustaining the…
Criminalizing Care
This essay discusses the intensification of threats to practices of radical care, such as collective action, mutual aid, and expressions of solidarity with others resisting ecological violence. I take up the global criminalization of land, water, and environmental defenders – including draconian “critical infrastructure” bills and anti-protest activities – that further link anticolonial, anti-imperial, and critical environmental justice struggles…
Powermapping “Stop Cop City”
This essay brings the analytic of abolition ecology into conversation with the critical rhetorical study of social movements, to emphasize the ecological dimensions of racialized violence, settler colonialism, and abolitionist liberation struggles. We do so by advancing the method of rhetorical powermapping, as one way to constellate the rhetorical labor of activists/protectors as they unearth the depth and textures of power temporally and spatia…
Sweeping the city
Uneven development in many North American cities has given rise to an increasing number of homeless encampments as residents seek shelter, sanitation, and other basic needs outside of formally recognized networks. In gentrifying cities, these informal infrastructures are also subject to the recurring violence of sweeps, wherein states remove, seize, or destroy life-sustaining necessities to decrease their visibility and designate space for other …
“No(t) camping”
The Environmental Justice working group took an engaged and intersectional approach, focusing on interconnections between affordable housing, transportation, and University of Nevada, Reno campus planning. The working group made three recommendations to advance local environmental justice commitments: (1) improve air quality and access to green spaces in campus development, (2) prioritize affordable housing and civic engagement, and (3) uphold st…
Reform, Justice, and Sovereignty
Food ecologies and economies are vital to the survival of communities, non-human species, and our planet. While environmental communication scholars have legitimated food as a topic of inquiry, the entangled ecological, cultural, economic, racial, colonial, and alimentary relations that sustain food systems demand greater attention. In this essay, we review literature within and beyond environmental communication, charting the landscape of critic…
Powermapping “Stop Cop City”
This essay brings the analytic of abolition ecology into conversation with the critical rhetorical study of social movements, to emphasize the ecological dimensions of racialized violence, settler colonialism, and abolitionist liberation struggles. We do so by advancing the method of rhetorical powermapping, as one way to constellate the rhetorical labor of activists/protectors as they unearth the depth and textures of power temporally and spatia…
Reform, Justice, and Sovereignty
Food ecologies and economies are vital to the survival of communities, non-human species, and our planet. While environmental communication scholars have legitimated food as a topic of inquiry, the entangled ecological, cultural, economic, racial, colonial, and alimentary relations that sustain food systems demand greater attention. In this essay, we review literature within and beyond environmental communication, charting the landscape of critic…
“No(t) camping”
The Environmental Justice working group took an engaged and intersectional approach, focusing on interconnections between affordable housing, transportation, and University of Nevada, Reno campus planning. The working group made three recommendations to advance local environmental justice commitments: (1) improve air quality and access to green spaces in campus development, (2) prioritize affordable housing and civic engagement, and (3) uphold st…
Sweeping the city
Uneven development in many North American cities has given rise to an increasing number of homeless encampments as residents seek shelter, sanitation, and other basic needs outside of formally recognized networks. In gentrifying cities, these informal infrastructures are also subject to the recurring violence of sweeps, wherein states remove, seize, or destroy life-sustaining necessities to decrease their visibility and designate space for other …
Learning mutual aid
This essay analyzes how participants within the community fridge movement use social media to facilitate informal learning and organize improvisational food justice through mutual aid. I offer a qualitative analysis of 20 community fridge Instagram accounts from the US and Canada over three years, with attention to how they disrupt dominant food charity discourses – scarcity, saviorism, and surveillance – and disclose tensions with sustaining the…
Criminalizing Care
This essay discusses the intensification of threats to practices of radical care, such as collective action, mutual aid, and expressions of solidarity with others resisting ecological violence. I take up the global criminalization of land, water, and environmental defenders – including draconian “critical infrastructure” bills and anti-protest activities – that further link anticolonial, anti-imperial, and critical environmental justice struggles…
Powermapping “Stop Cop City”
This essay brings the analytic of abolition ecology into conversation with the critical rhetorical study of social movements, to emphasize the ecological dimensions of racialized violence, settler colonialism, and abolitionist liberation struggles. We do so by advancing the method of rhetorical powermapping, as one way to constellate the rhetorical labor of activists/protectors as they unearth the depth and textures of power temporally and spatia…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental justice (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works)