Katy Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katy Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katy |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9174-3648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Political Ecology, Gender, and the Environment in Latin America: An Introduction to the Field
This article explores the intersection of political ecology, gender, and environmental issues in Latin America, highlighting the deep historical roots of socio-environmental conflicts in the region. It emphasizes the crucial role of women in socio-environmental movements, linking their involvement to several environmental changes and intensive resource extraction. As political ecology has gained prominence, it has become an essential framework fo…
Visualizing Food Practices as Resistance in Women’s Anti-Extractive Activism in the Peruvian Andes
In this paper I critically explore the ways in which food is deployed as an emblematic form of everyday gendered resistance in contestations over extractives-led development. Drawing on photos and interviews from participatory photography research with women anti-mining activists in Northern Peru, the paper argues that women activists harness imagery of everyday practices associated with food cultivation, preparation, and consumption as an evocat…
New perspectives on development
This thematic issue, 'New perspectives on development', aims to critically interrogate the continued resonance and relevance of ideas about development and how these can be elucidated by bringing into dialogue a range of theoretical, thematic and regional perspectives. We highlight the continued relevance of development in light of pressing and deepening challenges, including the climate crisis, environmental degradation, conflict and displacemen…
Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Territory and Natural Resource Extraction in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Afro-descendant women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, are amongst the most marginalized groups in the country. Living in a region severely affected by environmental degradation due to multiple and overlapping forms of resource extraction, they also face the impacts of drug-trafficking conflicts crossing the Colombian border, as well as institutional and everyday racism. Many of these conditions are rooted in a long history of colonialism. In this article…
Care and the academy: Navigating fieldwork, funding and care responsibilities
This commentary reflects on research jointly conducted by the Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) of the RGS‐IBG, which aimed to understand the challenges faced by academics with care responsibilities. We set out the effects of research funding policies and practices on researchers' ability to combine careers as academic geographers with care responsibilities, highlighting…
Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country…
Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development
This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of ‘lack’, ‘poverty’ and ‘progress’ that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for al…
Metodologías para desarrollos situados: Propuestas críticas y comprometidas
El desarrollo como proyecto constituyente de la modernidad es un campo de estudio y de acción gubernamental y social problemático. Por un lado, las políticas y programas de desarrollo en los países llamados del tercer mundo, del sudeste global, del norte excluido o de las periferias del capitalismo no han servido ni para la eliminación de las desigualdades, ni para el mejoramiento de la calidad de la vida de millones de personas y, menos, para la…
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’
This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in whi…
Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation
In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics o…
Introduction: Articulating Gender and Resource Extraction in Latin America
International audience
Negotiating access, ethics and agendas: Using participatory photography with women anti-mining activists in Peru
Academic motherhood and fieldwork: Juggling time, emotions, and competing demands
The idea and practice of going “into the field” to conduct research and gather data is a deeply rooted aspect of Geography as a discipline. For global North Development Geographers, among others, this usually entails travelling to, and spending periods of time in, often far‐flung parts of the global South. Forging a successful academic career as a Development Geographer in the UK is therefore to some extent predicated on mobility. This paper aims…
Introduction: Feminist values in research
Development Studies Association (DSA) co-hosted a seminar of the same title, to celebrate the journal's 25 th birthday.This issue includes articles initially presented there, alongside a range of others, commissioned in line with our usual practice from an open Call for Contributions.To ensure international development supports women's rights and gender equality, it is essential that feminist values infuse and underpin every aspect of research.Fe…
Women anti-mining activists’ narratives of everyday resistance in the Andes: Staying put and carrying on in Peru and Ecuador
This article explores the ways in which activism and resistance are incorporated into the everyday lives and practices of rural women in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes, theorising the nature of women’s everyday resistance in long running social conflicts. Drawing on research with women anti-mining activists in Peru and Ecuador, the article emphasises that their resistance is rarely concerned with large-scale protests, transnational activism, a…
Civil society activists and vulnerability in South India: The Relational Politics of Life History Methods and Development Research
Life history methods are gaining popularity in Development research, linked to attempts to capture narratives marginalised by dominant accounts of Development. In this paper, we reflect on using life history methods with NGO activists in India. We explore how this approach led us to develop particular understandings of the participants as ‘vulnerable’, and the implications of this for the research process and the knowledges it produced. We explor…
Eventually the mine will come’: Women anti-mining activists’ everyday resilience in opposing resource extraction in the Andes
This article explores the experiences of women anti-mining activists in rural communities in Andean Peru and Ecuador. The article analyses women activists’ experience of negotiating conflicts with large-scale mining companies, as well as within their communities, using the concept of resilience to understand their continued commitment to this work in a context of conflict, intimidation, and violence. Women activists’ resilience is demonstrated in…
Unearthing Women's Anti‐Mining Activism in the Andes: Pachamama and the “Mad Old Women”
Women play an important role in social activism challenging the expansion of extractive industries across Latin America. In arguing that this involvement has been largely unrecognised, this paper explores Andean Peruvian and Ecuadorian women's accounts of their activism and the particular gendered narratives that the women deploy in explaining and legitimising this activism. These discussions contribute to understanding the patterning of grassroo…
Women, mining and development: An emerging research agenda
Existing at the Interface: Indian NGO Activists as Strategic Cosmopolitans
This paper uses life history narratives to explore the multiple and overlapping scales and sites through which the cosmopolitan subjectivities of activists in local Indian NGOs are constituted. We particularly emphasise the “intermediate” status of the activists, and the ways their positioning shapes their subjectivities in diverse ways over time and place. We draw on the idea of a strategic cosmopolitanism to consider the multiple ways their cos…
Depoliticisation and the Changing Trajectories of Grassroots Women's Leadership in Peru: From Empowerment to Service Delivery
This paper examines how practices of leadership have been negotiated and have changed over time in the context of a grassroots health promotion project in Lima, Peru. Tracing these trajectories in the context of the evolution of women's organising in Peru informs a broader analysis of the changing role of grassroots women in development projects, feeding into debates around the professionalisation and depoliticisation of grassroots activism and p…
Disconnections and exclusions: Professionalization, Cosmopolitanism and (Global?) Civil Society
In this article, we address the ways in which theories and practices of cosmopolitanism and professionalization intersect in the sphere of global civil society. We emphasize the experiences of grassroots development activists, arguing that although they have so far been pivotal to the legitimacy of these spaces and discourses, such activists are increasingly absent from the practices of global civic spaces. We explore this process of change over …
Peruvian community health promoters: Expanding the spaces of health voluntarism
“We have a lot of goodwill, but we still need to eat…”: Valuing Women’s Long Term Voluntarism in Community Development in Lima
This paper focuses on recognizing the contribution made to development by grassroots women working on a voluntary basis in long term development projects. Using the example of healthcare, the paper problematizes the widespread move towards an increased reliance on voluntary and third sector provision. Drawing on literature around women’s community activism, the research considers the extent to which women carrying out health promotion work in Per…
Exploring Hierarchies of Knowledge in Peru: Scaling Urban Grassroots Women Health Promoters' Expertise
In this paper I engage with emerging debates around professionalisation and knowledge production in development, in order to explore how the diverse knowledges acquired by grassroots volunteer health promoters are situated, scaled, and understood. I consider how localised hierarchies of class and race limit the possibilities for grassroots women activists' knowledges to be recognised in the increasingly professionalised and transnational sphere o…
Women anti-mining activists’ narratives of everyday resistance in the Andes: Staying put and carrying on in Peru and Ecuador
This article explores the ways in which activism and resistance are incorporated into the everyday lives and practices of rural women in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes, theorising the nature of women’s everyday resistance in long running social conflicts. Drawing on research with women anti-mining activists in Peru and Ecuador, the article emphasises that their resistance is rarely concerned with large-scale protests, transnational activism, a…
Women, mining and development: An emerging research agenda
Eventually the mine will come’: Women anti-mining activists’ everyday resilience in opposing resource extraction in the Andes
This article explores the experiences of women anti-mining activists in rural communities in Andean Peru and Ecuador. The article analyses women activists’ experience of negotiating conflicts with large-scale mining companies, as well as within their communities, using the concept of resilience to understand their continued commitment to this work in a context of conflict, intimidation, and violence. Women activists’ resilience is demonstrated in…
Unearthing Women's Anti‐Mining Activism in the Andes: Pachamama and the “Mad Old Women”
Women play an important role in social activism challenging the expansion of extractive industries across Latin America. In arguing that this involvement has been largely unrecognised, this paper explores Andean Peruvian and Ecuadorian women's accounts of their activism and the particular gendered narratives that the women deploy in explaining and legitimising this activism. These discussions contribute to understanding the patterning of grassroo…
Existing at the Interface: Indian NGO Activists as Strategic Cosmopolitans
This paper uses life history narratives to explore the multiple and overlapping scales and sites through which the cosmopolitan subjectivities of activists in local Indian NGOs are constituted. We particularly emphasise the “intermediate” status of the activists, and the ways their positioning shapes their subjectivities in diverse ways over time and place. We draw on the idea of a strategic cosmopolitanism to consider the multiple ways their cos…
Disconnections and exclusions: Professionalization, Cosmopolitanism and (Global?) Civil Society
In this article, we address the ways in which theories and practices of cosmopolitanism and professionalization intersect in the sphere of global civil society. We emphasize the experiences of grassroots development activists, arguing that although they have so far been pivotal to the legitimacy of these spaces and discourses, such activists are increasingly absent from the practices of global civic spaces. We explore this process of change over …
Practically professionals? Grassroots women as local experts - A Peruvian case study
Negotiating access, ethics and agendas: Using participatory photography with women anti-mining activists in Peru
Academic motherhood and fieldwork: Juggling time, emotions, and competing demands
The idea and practice of going “into the field” to conduct research and gather data is a deeply rooted aspect of Geography as a discipline. For global North Development Geographers, among others, this usually entails travelling to, and spending periods of time in, often far‐flung parts of the global South. Forging a successful academic career as a Development Geographer in the UK is therefore to some extent predicated on mobility. This paper aims…
Civil society activists and vulnerability in South India: The Relational Politics of Life History Methods and Development Research
Life history methods are gaining popularity in Development research, linked to attempts to capture narratives marginalised by dominant accounts of Development. In this paper, we reflect on using life history methods with NGO activists in India. We explore how this approach led us to develop particular understandings of the participants as ‘vulnerable’, and the implications of this for the research process and the knowledges it produced. We explor…
No Way Out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of Neoliberalism
Introduction: Feminist values in research
Development Studies Association (DSA) co-hosted a seminar of the same title, to celebrate the journal's 25 th birthday.This issue includes articles initially presented there, alongside a range of others, commissioned in line with our usual practice from an open Call for Contributions.To ensure international development supports women's rights and gender equality, it is essential that feminist values infuse and underpin every aspect of research.Fe…
Exploring Hierarchies of Knowledge in Peru: Scaling Urban Grassroots Women Health Promoters' Expertise
In this paper I engage with emerging debates around professionalisation and knowledge production in development, in order to explore how the diverse knowledges acquired by grassroots volunteer health promoters are situated, scaled, and understood. I consider how localised hierarchies of class and race limit the possibilities for grassroots women activists' knowledges to be recognised in the increasingly professionalised and transnational sphere o…
Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development
This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of ‘lack’, ‘poverty’ and ‘progress’ that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for al…
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’
This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in whi…
Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation
In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics o…
Depoliticisation and the Changing Trajectories of Grassroots Women's Leadership in Peru: From Empowerment to Service Delivery
This paper examines how practices of leadership have been negotiated and have changed over time in the context of a grassroots health promotion project in Lima, Peru. Tracing these trajectories in the context of the evolution of women's organising in Peru informs a broader analysis of the changing role of grassroots women in development projects, feeding into debates around the professionalisation and depoliticisation of grassroots activism and p…
Peruvian community health promoters: Expanding the spaces of health voluntarism
Introduction: Articulating Gender and Resource Extraction in Latin America
International audience
Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country…
Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Territory and Natural Resource Extraction in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Afro-descendant women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, are amongst the most marginalized groups in the country. Living in a region severely affected by environmental degradation due to multiple and overlapping forms of resource extraction, they also face the impacts of drug-trafficking conflicts crossing the Colombian border, as well as institutional and everyday racism. Many of these conditions are rooted in a long history of colonialism. In this article…
Care and the academy: Navigating fieldwork, funding and care responsibilities
This commentary reflects on research jointly conducted by the Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) of the RGS‐IBG, which aimed to understand the challenges faced by academics with care responsibilities. We set out the effects of research funding policies and practices on researchers' ability to combine careers as academic geographers with care responsibilities, highlighting…
No Way Out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of Neoliberalism
Theories and Practices of Development - by Katie Willis
Re-Visiting Peruvian Grassroots Women's Organisations: Where Are They Now
While women's organising in Latin America was the subject of significant academic attention throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, there has been little more recent discussion of the ongoing role of low income women in urban community development. This article therefore re-visits women's long-term voluntary work in order to explore how their endeavours have been conceptualised over time, tracing the trajectory of women's popular organising in Peru…
Practically professionals? Grassroots women as local experts - A Peruvian case study
“We have a lot of goodwill, but we still need to eat…”: Valuing Women’s Long Term Voluntarism in Community Development in Lima
This paper focuses on recognizing the contribution made to development by grassroots women working on a voluntary basis in long term development projects. Using the example of healthcare, the paper problematizes the widespread move towards an increased reliance on voluntary and third sector provision. Drawing on literature around women’s community activism, the research considers the extent to which women carrying out health promotion work in Per…
Exploring Hierarchies of Knowledge in Peru: Scaling Urban Grassroots Women Health Promoters' Expertise
In this paper I engage with emerging debates around professionalisation and knowledge production in development, in order to explore how the diverse knowledges acquired by grassroots volunteer health promoters are situated, scaled, and understood. I consider how localised hierarchies of class and race limit the possibilities for grassroots women activists' knowledges to be recognised in the increasingly professionalised and transnational sphere o…
Peruvian community health promoters: Expanding the spaces of health voluntarism
Depoliticisation and the Changing Trajectories of Grassroots Women's Leadership in Peru: From Empowerment to Service Delivery
This paper examines how practices of leadership have been negotiated and have changed over time in the context of a grassroots health promotion project in Lima, Peru. Tracing these trajectories in the context of the evolution of women's organising in Peru informs a broader analysis of the changing role of grassroots women in development projects, feeding into debates around the professionalisation and depoliticisation of grassroots activism and p…
Disconnections and exclusions: Professionalization, Cosmopolitanism and (Global?) Civil Society
In this article, we address the ways in which theories and practices of cosmopolitanism and professionalization intersect in the sphere of global civil society. We emphasize the experiences of grassroots development activists, arguing that although they have so far been pivotal to the legitimacy of these spaces and discourses, such activists are increasingly absent from the practices of global civic spaces. We explore this process of change over …
Existing at the Interface: Indian NGO Activists as Strategic Cosmopolitans
This paper uses life history narratives to explore the multiple and overlapping scales and sites through which the cosmopolitan subjectivities of activists in local Indian NGOs are constituted. We particularly emphasise the “intermediate” status of the activists, and the ways their positioning shapes their subjectivities in diverse ways over time and place. We draw on the idea of a strategic cosmopolitanism to consider the multiple ways their cos…
Women, mining and development: An emerging research agenda
Eventually the mine will come’: Women anti-mining activists’ everyday resilience in opposing resource extraction in the Andes
This article explores the experiences of women anti-mining activists in rural communities in Andean Peru and Ecuador. The article analyses women activists’ experience of negotiating conflicts with large-scale mining companies, as well as within their communities, using the concept of resilience to understand their continued commitment to this work in a context of conflict, intimidation, and violence. Women activists’ resilience is demonstrated in…
Unearthing Women's Anti‐Mining Activism in the Andes: Pachamama and the “Mad Old Women”
Women play an important role in social activism challenging the expansion of extractive industries across Latin America. In arguing that this involvement has been largely unrecognised, this paper explores Andean Peruvian and Ecuadorian women's accounts of their activism and the particular gendered narratives that the women deploy in explaining and legitimising this activism. These discussions contribute to understanding the patterning of grassroo…
Women anti-mining activists’ narratives of everyday resistance in the Andes: Staying put and carrying on in Peru and Ecuador
This article explores the ways in which activism and resistance are incorporated into the everyday lives and practices of rural women in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes, theorising the nature of women’s everyday resistance in long running social conflicts. Drawing on research with women anti-mining activists in Peru and Ecuador, the article emphasises that their resistance is rarely concerned with large-scale protests, transnational activism, a…
Civil society activists and vulnerability in South India: The Relational Politics of Life History Methods and Development Research
Life history methods are gaining popularity in Development research, linked to attempts to capture narratives marginalised by dominant accounts of Development. In this paper, we reflect on using life history methods with NGO activists in India. We explore how this approach led us to develop particular understandings of the participants as ‘vulnerable’, and the implications of this for the research process and the knowledges it produced. We explor…
Introduction: Feminist values in research
Development Studies Association (DSA) co-hosted a seminar of the same title, to celebrate the journal's 25 th birthday.This issue includes articles initially presented there, alongside a range of others, commissioned in line with our usual practice from an open Call for Contributions.To ensure international development supports women's rights and gender equality, it is essential that feminist values infuse and underpin every aspect of research.Fe…
Negotiating access, ethics and agendas: Using participatory photography with women anti-mining activists in Peru
Academic motherhood and fieldwork: Juggling time, emotions, and competing demands
The idea and practice of going “into the field” to conduct research and gather data is a deeply rooted aspect of Geography as a discipline. For global North Development Geographers, among others, this usually entails travelling to, and spending periods of time in, often far‐flung parts of the global South. Forging a successful academic career as a Development Geographer in the UK is therefore to some extent predicated on mobility. This paper aims…
Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation
In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics o…
Introduction: Articulating Gender and Resource Extraction in Latin America
International audience
Metodologías para desarrollos situados: Propuestas críticas y comprometidas
El desarrollo como proyecto constituyente de la modernidad es un campo de estudio y de acción gubernamental y social problemático. Por un lado, las políticas y programas de desarrollo en los países llamados del tercer mundo, del sudeste global, del norte excluido o de las periferias del capitalismo no han servido ni para la eliminación de las desigualdades, ni para el mejoramiento de la calidad de la vida de millones de personas y, menos, para la…
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’
This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in whi…
Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country…
Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development
This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of ‘lack’, ‘poverty’ and ‘progress’ that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for al…
New perspectives on development
This thematic issue, 'New perspectives on development', aims to critically interrogate the continued resonance and relevance of ideas about development and how these can be elucidated by bringing into dialogue a range of theoretical, thematic and regional perspectives. We highlight the continued relevance of development in light of pressing and deepening challenges, including the climate crisis, environmental degradation, conflict and displacemen…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (23 works) · Law (20 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Grassroots (9 works)