Araby Smyth

ORCID: 0000-0002-9488-6871
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Research Areas
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Social Sciences and Policies
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Latin American Urban Studies
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Adult and Continuing Education Topics
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Irish and British Studies

York University
2022-2024

University of Kentucky
2017-2021

Inspired by Sara Ahmed's call to study what is near you, we write about our sometimes-joyful, sometimes-furious, always passionate struggles as graduate students in the academy. As a site of imperialism, racism, and patriarchy, university grinds especially hard on women, people color, black, indigenous, queer, disabled, otherwise oppressed scholars. Out desire not just get or ahead this hostile space competition scarcity, feminist praxis that subverts Using collaborative auto-ethnography,...

10.1080/0966369x.2019.1681367 article EN Gender Place & Culture 2019-11-05

Abstract In this article, I analyse intermingling economically productive and reproductive work at the global local scale through lens of how remittances are folded into communal social relations one Indigenous community in Oaxaca. Scholars have illustrated many ways that reproduction is reconfigured transnational labour migration, troubled categorisation socially labour. Expanding on their work, engage with scholarship about governance Guatemala Mexico, particularly theories Gladys Tzul...

10.1111/tran.12659 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2024-01-16

Abstract. In this short intervention addressing the impact of crises on geographical knowledge practices, we, members GenUrb (a multi-sited, longitudinal, partnered urban research project), ask, “what counts as crisis?”, sketching out epistemological and methodological points about our project's engagement with call. We query adeptness dominant Eurocentric epistemologies in crises, adopting work Bedour Alagraa, who places firmly within a historical–geographical colonial framing that...

10.5194/gh-79-283-2024 article EN cc-by Geographica Helvetica 2024-09-11

Abstract This article examines how the colonial past manifests within present through an analysis of ethnographic and archival fieldwork. Drawing on feminist geographic scholarship for decolonising knowledge production, I argue that geographers have a responsibility to people they work with places where conduct research know what came before. Through surfaced in everyday ongoing experiences negotiating consent during fieldwork, show reflecting past‐present offers insights into power...

10.1111/anti.12885 article EN Antipode 2022-10-13

Remittances, money sent by migrants to their communities of origin, are increasingly being linked global financial inclusion in what is called the “financialization remittances.” This most recent attempt divert remittances from “non-productive” savings and investments that can be mobilized for economic development. The literature accompanies this strategy focuses on responsibility individuals use productively invest wisely, there often an implied – gendered - social component: if women link...

10.1177/0308518x20977186 article EN Environment and Planning A Economy and Space 2021-01-20
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