Roberta Hawkins

ORCID: 0000-0002-6161-3930
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Research Areas
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • International Development and Aid
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
  • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions

University of Guelph
2014-2024

Louisiana State University
2019

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2019

University of Guam
2019

Micron (United States)
2019

Regional Municipality of Waterloo
2019

Wilfrid Laurier University
2019

Clark University
2009-2011

The Internet is growing in popularity as a research site and often framed the next frontier human subjects research. opportunities provides for political organizing, making personal experiences more public, creating spaces variety of voices makes it particularly relevant to feminist geographers researchers such ourselves. However, many qualitative approach online though simply archives an abundance data that 'there taking.' Being trained methods, we took issue with this approach, yet also...

10.1080/0966369x.2013.879108 article EN Gender Place & Culture 2014-02-10

Purpose This paper aims to present journey mapping as a creative practice that can be used “do doctoral education differently”, specifically, in way supports the wellbeing of students and centres often excluded post-secondary planning program development. It understands through lens feminist care ethics, critical decolonizing disability studies, theories Indigenous relationality, systems thinking, action-oriented approaches. Design/methodology/approach Using collaborative autoethnography, it...

10.1108/sgpe-02-2024-0022 article EN Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education 2025-01-17

Changing working conditions at many universities over the past decade have meant longer hours, intensified record-keeping, and more precarious employment. Despite these changes, academics still insist that we enjoy our jobs. Our inquiry is oriented toward spaces practices bring us joy in daily work help withstand negative effects of academia. This article reports on exploration some moments as part own academic practice. Through a feminist methodology known developed collective biography,...

10.1080/14649365.2014.929729 article EN Social & Cultural Geography 2014-07-03

Cause-related marketing (CRM) campaigns that combine consumption in the Global North with international development causes South are an increasingly popular phenomenon, which link by individuals to broader social issues. In this paper, we explore use of development-focused CRM enterprises. We highlight ways represents a form neoliberal consumerism and how various strategies enterprises using produce responsibilized consumers. assert transformed into responsible "development consumers"...

10.1080/10253866.2018.1431221 article EN Consumption Markets & Culture 2018-04-26

Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there cultural, institutional, political, intersectional factors impede active engagement with mental in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider as professional development us all.

10.1111/cag.12265 article EN Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes 2016-04-12

The number and variety of technologies used for environmental surveillance is expanding rapidly, making constant data collection near ‘real time’ analyses possible. ‘Smart Earth’ describes networked infrastructures comprised devices equipment signals to the human dimensions inherent developing, deploying putting technology large datasets use. In this paper, we situate Smart Earth in terms technological products practices consider relationship between global governance. Specifically, review...

10.1177/25148486221111786 article EN Environment and Planning E Nature and Space 2022-07-14

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 relations hinders gender-sensitive plan development. Mongolia is particularly poorly represented literature. This article presents fieldwork revealing distinctive gendered practices around use, decision making, including an unusually high degree men's participation...

10.1080/00330120903375852 article EN The Professional Geographer 2009-12-05

Abstract This paper examines cause-related marketing (crm) initiatives where the purchase of a product by North American consumer triggers donation from corporation to an international development organisation. crm is quickly gaining in popularity within non-profit sector. It now common means for raising funds and awareness as such has been deemed 'new frontier aid' yet this frontier' received little academic attention outside business management literatures. The extends these literatures...

10.1080/01436597.2012.728315 article EN Third World Quarterly 2012-10-26

This article analyzes the life trajectories of twelve early-career geographers in relation to their life–work experiences an increasingly neoliberal academia and its constant demands hypermobility. Using (auto)ethnographic research methods, it delves into manifestations effects pervasive myth detached, always ready-to-move scholar. We analyze role mobility imaginaries practices close relationship with privilege precarity. Our findings show how academic work is inescapably located despite...

10.1080/00330124.2018.1531036 article EN The Professional Geographer 2019-01-04

This commentary proposes a research agenda for the concept of feminist digital natures (FDN). To demonstrate how we see FDN connecting existing efforts, review both well-established and much-needed work in three overlapping areas scholarship where potential productive discussions, new questions, empirical analysis: geographies (FDG), (DN), political ecology (FPE). We offer specific grounded examples topics questions that scholars might pursue through an approach. encourage sustained,...

10.1177/25148486221123136 article EN cc-by-nc Environment and Planning E Nature and Space 2022-09-26

Abstract Collective biography uses researchers' written memories about a set of experiences as texts for collective analysis. As feminist approach to research, draws centrally on the idea that significant are critical in constitution self, and maintains analyzing collectively, researchers can begin tap into wider social processes structures. Though rarely used geography, could be useful data collection analysis geographers. In this paper, we provide brief history description biography. We...

10.1111/gec3.12262 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Geography Compass 2016-04-01

Volunteer tourism is a feminized sector of international travel, comprised four to one ratio women men. Using feminist concepts and drawing on data from in-depth interviews with former volunteer tourists, this paper uses gender lens explore how tourists' gendered racialized subjectivities shape are shaped by their experiences while volunteering in the Global South development-focused projects. We argue that: (1) spaces, activities, interactions influenced understandings care fear; (2)...

10.1080/0966369x.2019.1708274 article EN Gender Place & Culture 2020-01-17

This paper aims to make sense of Miss Costa, a female white shark with Twitter account. In 2016, she was captured, tagged and released off Nantucket, Massachusetts by relatively new non-profit organization called OCEARCH. OCEARCH named Costa after corporate sponsor (Costa sunglasses) created account under her name. Today, @MissCostaShark has over 18,000 followers tweets regularly. Tweets often include screenshots maps showing where recently been in the ocean, information that is available...

10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100066 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Digital Geography and Society 2023-07-11

This article is inspired by a recent television commercial for Pampers (a brand of disposable diapers) which announces that buying this diapers 'you can help the world's babies in need, because one pack equals life saving vaccine'. promotes 'One Pack = One Vaccine' initiative between and UNICEF, cause-related marketing (CRM) campaign supplies tetanus vaccine to woman South with each purchase North America. critically examines way CRM (and particular) links individual consumption choices...

10.1080/0966369x.2010.551650 article EN Gender Place & Culture 2011-03-07

Conventional food systems are viewed by the literature as unsustainable in that they provide consumers with convenience while disconnecting them from producers thus leading to environmental and social problems. By contrast, sustainable or “alternative” correcting such Wholesale produce auctions, which well established Old Order Mennonite community, physical sites where large quantities of sold through a competitive bidding process local buyers. These seen way better connecting realizing more...

10.3390/su8040328 article EN Sustainability 2016-04-01
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