Victoria Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Repurposing retail space: Exploring stakeholder relationships
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Portraits for change: Refusal politics and liberatory futures
We analyze viewers' experiences and understandings of an installation of portraits featuring vendors who sell Seattle's Real Change street newspaper. In doing so, we argue that Real Change is enacting a complex politics of refusal and explore this in relation to future political lives of Real Change activism. We explore political possibilities for the transformation of urban life opened by the politics the exhibit expresses. We analyze the exhibi…
Re‐Politicising Poverty: Relational Re‐conceptualisations of Impoverishment
This collection of essays extends cross‐disciplinary conversations between co‐authors that began as part of a podcast series by the Relational Poverty Network, “New Poverty Politics for Changing Times”. The authors engage impoverishment as a relation, as an outcome of intersecting political projects of racialised oppression, political‐economic injustice and socio‐legal control. Across various sites, the collection’s essays trace poverty politics,…
Humanitarianism as conflicted care: Managing migrant assistance in EU Assisted Voluntary Return policies
The arts of poverty politics: Real Change
This paper explores disruptive poverty politics arising from creative activisms that challenge homelessness/impoverishment. We analyze forms and potentials of creative activisms that challenge hegemonic meanings and practices around impoverishment. Bringing together geographers’ work on creative activisms, geographies of art, and the dialectics of thinkable and unthinkable poverty politics; we analyze activism by Real Change, a Seattle economic a…
Commentary on 2018 Roepke Lecture “Economic Geography and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene”
CommentaryGibson-Graham et al.’s Roepke Lecture continues a three-decade collaboration that realizes a feminist agenda of challenging patriarchal knowledges through both critique and rebuilding. This body of work entails both vital substantive contributions and also a deeply ethical critique of academic knowledge production that has historically venerated the I while obscuring the always collective practices of building understanding. In its plac…
Relational Poverty Politics: Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities
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 …
Geographical relational poverty studies
Relationality is a persistent concern of socio-spatial theory, increasingly invoked in geographical scholarship. We bring geographical scholarship on relationality to bear on relational poverty studies, an emergent body of work that challenges mainstream approaches to conceptualizing, explaining, researching and acting upon poverty. We argue that relationality scholarship provides ontological, theoretical, and epistemological interventions that e…
Neutralizing Homelessness: Federal Policy and the Depoliticization of Poverty
Peter Marcuse’s (1988) “Neutralizing Homelessness” was written at a moment of unprecedented homelessness in the United States and rising homeless activism and advocacy. The paper issued a radical c
Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People
In a context of rising inequality and economic vulnerability in the United States, we explore links between class identities, urban place-making, and poverty politics. We ask how class difference and poverty politics are made and remade in neighborhood-level place-making and with what implications for boundaries and alliances between middle-class and poorer residents. Place-making refers to activities through which residents work to produce the n…
The poor are us: Middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class subjects emerge in the US, which is theorized as remaining deeply entrenched in neoliberal governance and Argentina, conceptualized as postneoliberal. We investigate the poverty politics of middle-class residents engaged in ant…
The Sage Handbook of Human Geography: Two Volume Set
Encountering Poverty: Space, Class, and Poverty Politics
Our paper focuses on moments and spaces of encounter in which middle class people come into contact with “poor others”. Much critical poverty work focuses on the re-inscription of difference across class, race and gender lines. We explore where, when and how middle class actors engage with “poor others” in ways that (sometimes) lead to shifts in neoliberal and individualized understandings of poverty. Our paper explores boundary-breaking transfor…
Commentary
Decentring poverty studies: Middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty
Editors' Note : The following is the tenth in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Lecture Series . It is based on the plenary presentation of 13 April at the AAG held in Seattle in 2011. In this essay I explore relational poverty analysis to take seriously the spatially varied intersections of political-economic, social ordering and cultural-political processes in shaping understandings of poverty. My work as part of the Middle Class Pove…
Care of the body: Spaces of Practice
Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discourses. This special issue offers a suite of ‘think’ pieces on geographies of care which provoke further examination of three challenges. First, we need conceptual strategies to explore the connections of…
Recentring care: Interrogating the Commodification of Care
We trace how the category of care comes to be constituted historically and in social theory in ways that privilege the autonomous individual as economic agent and, in the process, renders care a problematic residual to social order and social theory. We investigate how theoretical categories, social relations, institutional orders and discursive practices separate care and economy in ways that constitute those in need (including the impoverished)…
Composing our careers: Susan Hanson's contributions to geography and geographers
Susan Hanson's career exemplifies the notion that our lives are compositions rather than predictable, linear trajectories. In this essay I argue that Susan's career is an empowering example of a collage of woven-together life experiences, substantive research interests, feminist values and progressive professional practices. I illustrate these ideas through three compositions that I trace throughout Susan's career: networking gender; caring geogr…
Articulations of Place, Poverty, and Race: Dumping Grounds and Unseen Grounds in the Rural American Northwest
This project extends poverty research by addressing the lack of knowledge about place and race differences in poverty processes (Blank 2005 Blank, R. 2005. Poverty, policy and place: How poverty and policies to alleviate poverty are shaped by local characteristics. Regional Science Review, 28(4): 441–64. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Rural places experience a range of modes of articulation within the global division of rural…
Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development
The World Development Report 2009 discusses a crucial development challenge-that of understanding spatially uneven development. The report lays out a series of policy responses to spatial unevenness that are intended to mobilize the growth-enhancing advantages of unbalanced development while ensuring inclusive development. However, the report mobilizes a narrow view of economic development that is disconnected from place, politics, and society. I…
Instead of Radical Geography, How About Caring Geography
Building economies from the bottom up: (Mis)representations of poverty in the rural American Northwest
This paper examines interconnected processes of economic restructuring and representations of poor subjects that rely on imaginaries of race, ethnicity, class and rural space. We argue that poverty and privilege are mutually produced and so we focus on the representational practices of White leaders in persistently poor counties across the American Northwest. We draw from case study research to understand region-wide material and discursive proce…
Introduction: Geographies of Fear and Hope
We live in a world of growing fearfulness, one in which interrogating deployments of both fear and of hope become ever more necessary. Fear and hope are powerful emotions that shape human actions i
Geographies of Care and Responsibility
Across the decades geographers have been concerned with questions of our ethical responsibilities to care. It would seem that care is nothing new in geography. I argue however, that contemporary societal shifts are extending market relations into caring realms of our lives and that we are witnessing reductions in public provision of social supports. These twin trends have made care a more pressing concern and have simultaneously marginalized care…
Geographies of Care and Responsibility
Across the decades geographers have been concerned with questions of our ethical responsibilities to care. It would seem that care is nothing new in geography. I argue however, that contemporary societal shifts are extending market relations into caring realms of our lives and that we are witnessing reductions in public provision of social supports. These twin trends have made care a more pressing concern and have simultaneously marginalized care…
Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization
The literatures on economic globalization and feminist understandings of global processes have largely remained separate. In this article, our goal is to bring them into productive conversation so that research on globalization can benefit from feminist engagements with globalization. In the first section, which focuses on the conceptual challenges of bringing the economic globalization literature into conversation with feminist analysis, we iden…
Recentring care: Interrogating the Commodification of Care
We trace how the category of care comes to be constituted historically and in social theory in ways that privilege the autonomous individual as economic agent and, in the process, renders care a problematic residual to social order and social theory. We investigate how theoretical categories, social relations, institutional orders and discursive practices separate care and economy in ways that constitute those in need (including the impoverished)…
Geographical relational poverty studies
Relationality is a persistent concern of socio-spatial theory, increasingly invoked in geographical scholarship. We bring geographical scholarship on relationality to bear on relational poverty studies, an emergent body of work that challenges mainstream approaches to conceptualizing, explaining, researching and acting upon poverty. We argue that relationality scholarship provides ontological, theoretical, and epistemological interventions that e…
Care of the body: Spaces of Practice
Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discourses. This special issue offers a suite of ‘think’ pieces on geographies of care which provoke further examination of three challenges. First, we need conceptual strategies to explore the connections of…
Placing the Migrant
This article presents a review of geographic research literature on migration locations and theoretical conceptions of migrants. This focus reveals important continuities in themes of migration theories of development identity and culture and illustrates the options for exploring new issues. The literature indicates a broad range of research methods that have benefited understanding over time. A more critical perspective on development as a disco…
Decentring poverty studies: Middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty
Editors' Note : The following is the tenth in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Lecture Series . It is based on the plenary presentation of 13 April at the AAG held in Seattle in 2011. In this essay I explore relational poverty analysis to take seriously the spatially varied intersections of political-economic, social ordering and cultural-political processes in shaping understandings of poverty. My work as part of the Middle Class Pove…
Encountering Poverty: Space, Class, and Poverty Politics
Our paper focuses on moments and spaces of encounter in which middle class people come into contact with “poor others”. Much critical poverty work focuses on the re-inscription of difference across class, race and gender lines. We explore where, when and how middle class actors engage with “poor others” in ways that (sometimes) lead to shifts in neoliberal and individualized understandings of poverty. Our paper explores boundary-breaking transfor…
Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks”: Economic Restructuring and Class Difference in America’s West
In this paper, we argue for the importance of constructing a human geography of white class difference. More particularly, we present a theoretical framework for understanding the cultural politics of class and whiteness in the context of rural restructuring. We theorize these politics through an examination of the national discourse of redneck that has emerged in the US. We analyze the term “redneck” as one of several rhetorical categories that …
Instead of Radical Geography, How About Caring Geography
Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People
In a context of rising inequality and economic vulnerability in the United States, we explore links between class identities, urban place-making, and poverty politics. We ask how class difference and poverty politics are made and remade in neighborhood-level place-making and with what implications for boundaries and alliances between middle-class and poorer residents. Place-making refers to activities through which residents work to produce the n…
Beyond the Firm: Restructuring Gender Divisions of Labor in Quito's Garment Industry under Austerity
In this study I investigate social adjustments emerging under neoliberal austerity policies in Ecuador. In particular, I focus on the processes of informalization and feminization of garment manufacture as Ecuadorian producers attempt to remain viable in a radically opened economy. A central premise of this study is that gendered labor supplies in places are significant to the form that industry restructuring assumes. The analysis draws on extens…
Building economies from the bottom up: (Mis)representations of poverty in the rural American Northwest
This paper examines interconnected processes of economic restructuring and representations of poor subjects that rely on imaginaries of race, ethnicity, class and rural space. We argue that poverty and privilege are mutually produced and so we focus on the representational practices of White leaders in persistently poor counties across the American Northwest. We draw from case study research to understand region-wide material and discursive proce…
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 …
Introduction: Geographies of Fear and Hope
We live in a world of growing fearfulness, one in which interrogating deployments of both fear and of hope become ever more necessary. Fear and hope are powerful emotions that shape human actions i
Articulations of Place, Poverty, and Race: Dumping Grounds and Unseen Grounds in the Rural American Northwest
This project extends poverty research by addressing the lack of knowledge about place and race differences in poverty processes (Blank 2005 Blank, R. 2005. Poverty, policy and place: How poverty and policies to alleviate poverty are shaped by local characteristics. Regional Science Review, 28(4): 441–64. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Rural places experience a range of modes of articulation within the global division of rural…
Re‐Politicising Poverty: Relational Re‐conceptualisations of Impoverishment
This collection of essays extends cross‐disciplinary conversations between co‐authors that began as part of a podcast series by the Relational Poverty Network, “New Poverty Politics for Changing Times”. The authors engage impoverishment as a relation, as an outcome of intersecting political projects of racialised oppression, political‐economic injustice and socio‐legal control. Across various sites, the collection’s essays trace poverty politics,…
Humanitarianism as conflicted care: Managing migrant assistance in EU Assisted Voluntary Return policies
Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development
The World Development Report 2009 discusses a crucial development challenge-that of understanding spatially uneven development. The report lays out a series of policy responses to spatial unevenness that are intended to mobilize the growth-enhancing advantages of unbalanced development while ensuring inclusive development. However, the report mobilizes a narrow view of economic development that is disconnected from place, politics, and society. I…
The poor are us: Middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class subjects emerge in the US, which is theorized as remaining deeply entrenched in neoliberal governance and Argentina, conceptualized as postneoliberal. We investigate the poverty politics of middle-class residents engaged in ant…
Conceptual Linkages in the Study of Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities
Victoria Lawson, Thomas Klak, Conceptual Linkages in the Study of Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities, Economic Geography, Vol. 66, No. 4, Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities: Concepts, Linkages, and Empirical Trends (Oct., 1990), pp. 310-327
Portraits for change: Refusal politics and liberatory futures
We analyze viewers' experiences and understandings of an installation of portraits featuring vendors who sell Seattle's Real Change street newspaper. In doing so, we argue that Real Change is enacting a complex politics of refusal and explore this in relation to future political lives of Real Change activism. We explore political possibilities for the transformation of urban life opened by the politics the exhibit expresses. We analyze the exhibi…
The arts of poverty politics: Real Change
This paper explores disruptive poverty politics arising from creative activisms that challenge homelessness/impoverishment. We analyze forms and potentials of creative activisms that challenge hegemonic meanings and practices around impoverishment. Bringing together geographers’ work on creative activisms, geographies of art, and the dialectics of thinkable and unthinkable poverty politics; we analyze activism by Real Change, a Seattle economic a…
Commentary
Commentary: Industrialization, Economic Development, and the Regional Question in the Third World
Michael Storper, Victoria Lawson, Commentary: [Industrialization, Economic Development, and the Regional Question in the Third World], Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 448-451
Conceptual Linkages in the Study of Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities
Victoria Lawson, Thomas Klak, Conceptual Linkages in the Study of Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities, Economic Geography, Vol. 66, No. 4, Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities: Concepts, Linkages, and Empirical Trends (Oct., 1990), pp. 310-327
An Introduction to Current Research on Latin American Cities
Thomas Klak, Victoria Lawson, An Introduction to Current Research on Latin American Cities, Economic Geography, Vol. 66, No. 4, Production and Reproduction in Latin American Cities: Concepts, Linkages, and Empirical Trends (Oct., 1990), pp. 305-309
Commentary: Industrialization, Economic Development, and the Regional Question in the Third World
Michael Storper, Victoria Lawson, Commentary: [Industrialization, Economic Development, and the Regional Question in the Third World], Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 448-451
Beyond the Firm: Restructuring Gender Divisions of Labor in Quito's Garment Industry under Austerity
In this study I investigate social adjustments emerging under neoliberal austerity policies in Ecuador. In particular, I focus on the processes of informalization and feminization of garment manufacture as Ecuadorian producers attempt to remain viable in a radically opened economy. A central premise of this study is that gendered labor supplies in places are significant to the form that industry restructuring assumes. The analysis draws on extens…
Questions of migration and belonging: Understandings of migration under neoliberalism in Ecuador
Migration studies across the social sciences are tackling exciting questions about the importance of local narratives of migration and the insights they can give on the importance of dialectical treatments of the places of migration. In this paper I explore alternative understandings and experiences of migration, drawing on in-depth interviews with urban-destined migrants in Ecuador to argue that mobility produces ambivalent development subjects.…
Placing the Migrant
This article presents a review of geographic research literature on migration locations and theoretical conceptions of migrants. This focus reveals important continuities in themes of migration theories of development identity and culture and illustrates the options for exploring new issues. The literature indicates a broad range of research methods that have benefited understanding over time. A more critical perspective on development as a disco…
Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks”: Economic Restructuring and Class Difference in America’s West
In this paper, we argue for the importance of constructing a human geography of white class difference. More particularly, we present a theoretical framework for understanding the cultural politics of class and whiteness in the context of rural restructuring. We theorize these politics through an examination of the national discourse of redneck that has emerged in the US. We analyze the term “redneck” as one of several rhetorical categories that …
Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization
The literatures on economic globalization and feminist understandings of global processes have largely remained separate. In this article, our goal is to bring them into productive conversation so that research on globalization can benefit from feminist engagements with globalization. In the first section, which focuses on the conceptual challenges of bringing the economic globalization literature into conversation with feminist analysis, we iden…
Hopeful Geographies: Imagining Ethical Alternatives. A Commentary on j.k. Gibson-Graham's "Surplus Possibilities: Postdevelopment and Community Economies"
Introduction: Geographies of Fear and Hope
We live in a world of growing fearfulness, one in which interrogating deployments of both fear and of hope become ever more necessary. Fear and hope are powerful emotions that shape human actions i
Geographies of Care and Responsibility
Across the decades geographers have been concerned with questions of our ethical responsibilities to care. It would seem that care is nothing new in geography. I argue however, that contemporary societal shifts are extending market relations into caring realms of our lives and that we are witnessing reductions in public provision of social supports. These twin trends have made care a more pressing concern and have simultaneously marginalized care…
Building economies from the bottom up: (Mis)representations of poverty in the rural American Northwest
This paper examines interconnected processes of economic restructuring and representations of poor subjects that rely on imaginaries of race, ethnicity, class and rural space. We argue that poverty and privilege are mutually produced and so we focus on the representational practices of White leaders in persistently poor counties across the American Northwest. We draw from case study research to understand region-wide material and discursive proce…
Instead of Radical Geography, How About Caring Geography
Composing our careers: Susan Hanson's contributions to geography and geographers
Susan Hanson's career exemplifies the notion that our lives are compositions rather than predictable, linear trajectories. In this essay I argue that Susan's career is an empowering example of a collage of woven-together life experiences, substantive research interests, feminist values and progressive professional practices. I illustrate these ideas through three compositions that I trace throughout Susan's career: networking gender; caring geogr…
Articulations of Place, Poverty, and Race: Dumping Grounds and Unseen Grounds in the Rural American Northwest
This project extends poverty research by addressing the lack of knowledge about place and race differences in poverty processes (Blank 2005 Blank, R. 2005. Poverty, policy and place: How poverty and policies to alleviate poverty are shaped by local characteristics. Regional Science Review, 28(4): 441–64. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Rural places experience a range of modes of articulation within the global division of rural…
Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development
The World Development Report 2009 discusses a crucial development challenge-that of understanding spatially uneven development. The report lays out a series of policy responses to spatial unevenness that are intended to mobilize the growth-enhancing advantages of unbalanced development while ensuring inclusive development. However, the report mobilizes a narrow view of economic development that is disconnected from place, politics, and society. I…
Care of the body: Spaces of Practice
Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discourses. This special issue offers a suite of ‘think’ pieces on geographies of care which provoke further examination of three challenges. First, we need conceptual strategies to explore the connections of…
Recentring care: Interrogating the Commodification of Care
We trace how the category of care comes to be constituted historically and in social theory in ways that privilege the autonomous individual as economic agent and, in the process, renders care a problematic residual to social order and social theory. We investigate how theoretical categories, social relations, institutional orders and discursive practices separate care and economy in ways that constitute those in need (including the impoverished)…
Decentring poverty studies: Middle class alliances and the social construction of poverty
Editors' Note : The following is the tenth in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Lecture Series . It is based on the plenary presentation of 13 April at the AAG held in Seattle in 2011. In this essay I explore relational poverty analysis to take seriously the spatially varied intersections of political-economic, social ordering and cultural-political processes in shaping understandings of poverty. My work as part of the Middle Class Pove…
Commentary
The Sage Handbook of Human Geography: Two Volume Set
Encountering Poverty: Space, Class, and Poverty Politics
Our paper focuses on moments and spaces of encounter in which middle class people come into contact with “poor others”. Much critical poverty work focuses on the re-inscription of difference across class, race and gender lines. We explore where, when and how middle class actors engage with “poor others” in ways that (sometimes) lead to shifts in neoliberal and individualized understandings of poverty. Our paper explores boundary-breaking transfor…
Middle-Class Poverty Politics: Making Place, Making People
In a context of rising inequality and economic vulnerability in the United States, we explore links between class identities, urban place-making, and poverty politics. We ask how class difference and poverty politics are made and remade in neighborhood-level place-making and with what implications for boundaries and alliances between middle-class and poorer residents. Place-making refers to activities through which residents work to produce the n…
The poor are us: Middle-class poverty politics in Buenos Aires and Seattle
We investigate middle-class poverty politics in Seattle and Buenos Aires in a period of recovery from deep neoliberal economic crisis. Reading these cases in relation to one another allows us to examine what sorts of class subjects emerge in the US, which is theorized as remaining deeply entrenched in neoliberal governance and Argentina, conceptualized as postneoliberal. We investigate the poverty politics of middle-class residents engaged in ant…
Geographical relational poverty studies
Relationality is a persistent concern of socio-spatial theory, increasingly invoked in geographical scholarship. We bring geographical scholarship on relationality to bear on relational poverty studies, an emergent body of work that challenges mainstream approaches to conceptualizing, explaining, researching and acting upon poverty. We argue that relationality scholarship provides ontological, theoretical, and epistemological interventions that e…
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Poverty (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 works)