Dr L K Boyer

Dr L K Boyer

University of Southampton
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Lecturer of Human Geography
Research group: Economy, Culture, Space
Location: 44/2061
Extension: 23261
Telephone: (023) 8059 3261

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Research interests

My interests are in the fields of Social, Feminist and Urban Geography. My research breaks down into a couple streams: the first concerns relations between gender, place and identity; and in particular how understandings of gender and other kinds of identity are produced in the workplace.

In this strand I've looked at gender relations in the financial services industry, as well as how wage-work and carework have been coded in spatialized and gendered terms in US welfare policy.

The second stream concerns space and the politics of technology. Within this I'm interested in how new technologies might be affecting understandings of identity, nature, the body, relations of care across distance, and work/life balance.

I'm currently doing research on the breast-pump as a technology, and am co-editing a book on (the possibility of) feminist technology.

Research projects

  • Welfare in the contemporary US, anti-poverty activism and ethics of care;
  • New geographies of care enabled by the breastpump;
  • Research on new mother's experiences blending wage work with care-work in Albany, New York with Maia Boswell-Penc (Women's Studies, State University of New York at Albany)
  • Co-editor with Linda Layne (STS, Rensselaer) and Sharra Vostral (Women's Studies, University of Illinois Champain-Urbana) of edited book interrogating the idea of 'feminist' technology.
  • On-going collaboration with Kim England (Department of Geography, University of Washington) on gender, space and clerical work in 20th century North America.

Biographical notes

Kate Boyer is currently Lecturer of Human Geography. She recently joined the School of Geography, at the University of Southampton in 2007.

Qualifications

  • B.A.Geography (Cum Laude), Macalester College (Minnesota, USA)1991
  • M.A.(Human Geography) University of British Columbia 1994
  • Ph.D.(Human Geography) McGill University, Quebec 2001

Details

  • 2007 Lecturer Human Geography, School of Geography, Southampton.
  • 2002-2007 Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • 2000-02 Researcher, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, Albany, New York.
  • 1998-00 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, The State University of New York at Albany.
Teaching responsibilities for Dr L K Boyer
Module title Module code Discipline Role
Geographies of Gender and Work GEOG2028 Geography Course leader
Economy, Culture and Space GEOG1003 Geography Tutor
Geographical Skills GEOG1007 Geography Tutor
Geographies of Wellbeing GEOG2027 Geography Tutor
Researching Urban Economy and Culture I: Communication and Research Skills GEOG6063 Geography Tutor

Publications

Boyer, Kate and England, Kim (2008) Gender, work and technology in the information workplace from Remington to the ATM. Social and Cultural Geography, 9, (3), 241-256. (doi:10.1080/14649360801990462)
Boyer, Kate (2006) Reform and resistance: a consideration of space, scale and strategy in legal challenges to welfare reform. Antipode, 38, (1), 22-40. (doi:10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00563.x)
Boyer, L.K. (2006) Guest Editor’s Introduction: Gender, Space and Technology. ACME: an International E-journal for Critical Geographies, 5, (1), 1-8.
Boyer, Kate (2005) For home and country? Engendering nationalism in the workplace: Pour le foyer et la patrie? Fonder le nationalisme dans le milieu de travail: Por el hogar y por la patria? El engendramiento del nacionalismo al trabajo. Social & Cultural Geography, 6, (2), 183-199. (doi:10.1080/14649360500074626)
Boyer, Kate (2004) "Miss Remington" goes to work: gender, space, and technology at the dawn of the Information Age. The Professional Geographer, 56, (2), 201-212.
Boyer, Kate (2003) At work, at home? New geographies of work and care-giving under welfare reform in the US. Space and Polity, 7, (1), 75-86. (doi:10.1080/13562570309246)
Boyer, Kate (2003) “Neither forget nor remember your sex”: sexual politics in the early twentieth-century Canadian office. The Journal of Historical Geography, 29, (2), 212-229. (doi:10.1006/jhge.2002.0418)
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