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Dr Kate Boyer
Reader in Human Geography
Ysgol Daearyddiaeth a Chynllunio
- BoyerK@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75244
- Adeilad Morgannwg, Ystafell Room 2.93, Rhodfa’r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3WA
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Trosolwyg
I am a Human Geographer with research interests in Social, Cultural and Feminist Geography. I am especially interested in how place and space come to have meaning, including the politics of how these processes intersect with understandings of gender, care and embodiment. In recent years I have studied geographies of gender and care as relating to breastfeeding (especially breastfeeding in public), emotional geographies of childcare, and new parents' experiences of mobility and immobility.
I have supervised four PhD students to completion and am happy to consider new PhD students interested in working across any of these themes: care-work, activism (especially feminist and urban), materiality, parenthood, embodiment and social space, breastfeeding/early child feeding, work-life harmonisation, or Deleuze and Feminism.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Boyer, K. and Wood, I. 2023. Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools. Culture, Health & Sexuality 25(9), pp. 1244-1258. (10.1080/13691058.2022.2154386)
- Walker, A., O'Mahoney, K. and Boyer, K. 2023. Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice.. Emotion, Space and Society 48, article number: 100961. (10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100961)
- Boyer, K., Eaves, L. E. and Fluri, J. eds. 2023. Activist feminist geographies.. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Infante-Vargas, D. and Boyer, K. 2023. “Do you really want to keep going with this?”: reporting gender-based violence in public in Saltillo, Mexico. Gender, Place and Culture 30(7), pp. 969-988. (10.1080/0966369X.2022.2091521)
- Boyer, K. and Wood, I. 2023. Spaces of change: Everyday gender activism through near‐peer gender and sexuality workshops with young people in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (10.1111/tran.12616)
2022
- Boyer, K. 2022. Sexual harassment and the right to everyday life. Progress in Human Geography 46(2), pp. 398-415. (10.1177/03091325211024340)
- Owen, J. and Boyer, K. 2022. Holding on to childhood things: storage, emotion and curation of children's material biographies. Social and Cultural Geography 23, pp. 192-209. (10.1080/14649365.2019.1705992)
- Infante-Vargas, D. and Boyer, K. 2022. Gender-based violence against women users of public transport in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Gender Studies 31(2), pp. 216-230. (10.1080/09589236.2021.1915753)
2021
- Boyer, K., Hunter, B. and Davis, A. 2021. Birth stories: Childbirth, remembrance and 'everyday' heritage.. Emotion, Space and Society 41, article number: 100841. (10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100841)
- Buser, M. and Boyer, K. 2021. Care goes underground: thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures. cultural geographies 28, pp. 73-90. (10.1177/1474474020942796)
2019
- Isherwood, J., Boyer, K. and Dowling, S. 2019. Local landscapes of breastfeeding: a comparison of breastfeeding experiences amongst mothers in low-and high-income neighbourhoods in Bristol, UK. Health and Place 59, article number: 102125. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.05.003)
- Tomori, C. and Boyer, K. 2019. Domestic geographies of parental and infant (co-) becomings: home-space, night-time breastfeeding, and parent-infant sleep.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 109(4), pp. 1172-1187. (10.1080/24694452.2018.1558628)
2018
- Dowling, S., Pontin, D. and Boyer, K. eds. 2018. Social experiences of breastfeeding: Building bridges between research, policy and practice.. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Boyer, K. 2018. Breastmilk as agentic matter and the distributed agencies of infant feeding.. Studies in the Maternal 10(1) (10.16995/sim.257)
- Waight, E. and Boyer, K. 2018. The role of the non-human in relations of care: baby things. Cultural Geographies 25(3), pp. 459-472. (10.1177/1474474018758480)
- Boyer, K. 2018. Spaces and politics of motherhood. Rowman & Littlefield International.
- Boyer, K. 2018. The emotional resonances of breastfeeding in public: the role of strangers in breastfeeding practice. Emotion, Space and Society 26, pp. 33-40. (10.1016/j.emospa.2016.09.002)
2017
- Boyer, K., Mayes, R. and Pini, B. 2017. Narrations and practices of mobility and immobility in the maintenance of gender dualisms. Mobilities 12(6), pp. 847-860. (10.1080/17450101.2017.1292027)
- Boyer, K., Dermott, E., James, A. and MacLeavy, J. 2017. Regendering care in the aftermath of recession?. Dialogues in Human Geography 7(1), pp. 56-73. (10.1177/2043820617691632)
2016
- Boyer, K. and Spinney, J. 2016. Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34(6), pp. 1113-1131. (10.1177/0263775815622209)
2015
- Mayes, R., Pini, B. and Boyer, K. 2015. Becoming Kalgoorlie. Griffith Review(47), article number: Online article.
2014
- Boyer, K. 2014. ‘Neoliberal motherhood’: workplace lactation and changing conceptions of working motherhood in the contemporary US. Feminist Theory 15(3), pp. 269-288. (10.1177/1464700114545321)
2013
- Buser, M., Bonura, C., Fannin, M. and Boyer, K. 2013. Cultural activism and the politics of place-making. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 17(5), pp. 606-627. (10.1080/13604813.2013.827840)
- Pini, B., Mayes, R. and Boyer, K. 2013. “Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town. Journal of Rural Studies 32, pp. 168-176. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.06.002)
- Boyer, K., Reimer, S. and Irvine, L. 2013. The nursery workspace, emotional labour, and contested understandings of commoditised childcare in the contemporary UK. Social & Cultural Geography 14(5), pp. 517-540. (10.1080/14649365.2012.710913)
2012
- Boyer, K. 2012. Affect, corporeality and the limits of belonging: breastfeeding in public in the contemporary UK. Health & Place 18(3), pp. 552-560. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.01.010)
2011
- Boyer, K. 2011. The way to break the taboo is to do the taboo thing: breastfeeding in public and citizen activism in the UK. Health & Place 17(2), pp. 430-437. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.06.013)
2010
- Layne, L. L., Vostral, S. L. and Boyer, K. eds. 2010. Feminist technology. Women, Gender and Technology. University of Ilinois Press.
2009
- Boyer, K. 2009. Of care and commodities: breast milk and the new politics of mobile biosubstances. Progress in Human Geography 34(1), pp. 5-20. (10.1177/0309132509105003)
- England, K. and Boyer, K. 2009. Women's work: the feminization and shifting meanings of clerical work. Journal of Social History 43(2), pp. 307-340. (10.1353/jsh.0.0284)
2008
- Boyer, K. and England, K. 2008. Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: from typewriters to ATMs. Social & Cultural Geography 9(3), pp. 241-256. (10.1080/14649360801990462)
2006
- Boyer, K. 2006. Reform and resistance: a consideration of space, scale and strategy in legal challenges to welfare reform. Antipode 38(1), pp. 22-40. (10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00563.x)
- Boyer, K. 2006. Guest Editor’s introduction: gender, space and technology. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 5(1), pp. 1-8.
2005
- Boyer, K. 2005. For home and country? Engendering nationalism in the workplace. Social & Cultural Geography 6(2), pp. 183-199. (10.1080/14649360500074626)
2004
- Boyer, K. 2004. "Miss Remington" goes to work: gender, space, and technology at the dawn of the Information Age. The Professional Geographer 56(2), pp. 201-212. (10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05602005.x)
2003
- Boyer, K. 2003. "Neither forget nor remember your sex”: sexual politics in the early twentieth-century Canadian office. The Journal of Historical Geography 29(2), pp. 212-229. (10.1006/jhge.2002.0418)
- Boyer, K. 2003. At work, at home? New geographies of work and care-giving under welfare reform in the US. Space and Polity 7(1), pp. 75-86. (10.1080/13562570309246)
Erthyglau
- Boyer, K. and Wood, I. 2023. Sexual health activism: the motivations of near-peer volunteer educators working to promote positive understandings of gender and sexuality in UK secondary schools. Culture, Health & Sexuality 25(9), pp. 1244-1258. (10.1080/13691058.2022.2154386)
- Walker, A., O'Mahoney, K. and Boyer, K. 2023. Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice.. Emotion, Space and Society 48, article number: 100961. (10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100961)
- Infante-Vargas, D. and Boyer, K. 2023. “Do you really want to keep going with this?”: reporting gender-based violence in public in Saltillo, Mexico. Gender, Place and Culture 30(7), pp. 969-988. (10.1080/0966369X.2022.2091521)
- Boyer, K. and Wood, I. 2023. Spaces of change: Everyday gender activism through near‐peer gender and sexuality workshops with young people in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (10.1111/tran.12616)
- Boyer, K. 2022. Sexual harassment and the right to everyday life. Progress in Human Geography 46(2), pp. 398-415. (10.1177/03091325211024340)
- Owen, J. and Boyer, K. 2022. Holding on to childhood things: storage, emotion and curation of children's material biographies. Social and Cultural Geography 23, pp. 192-209. (10.1080/14649365.2019.1705992)
- Infante-Vargas, D. and Boyer, K. 2022. Gender-based violence against women users of public transport in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Gender Studies 31(2), pp. 216-230. (10.1080/09589236.2021.1915753)
- Boyer, K., Hunter, B. and Davis, A. 2021. Birth stories: Childbirth, remembrance and 'everyday' heritage.. Emotion, Space and Society 41, article number: 100841. (10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100841)
- Buser, M. and Boyer, K. 2021. Care goes underground: thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures. cultural geographies 28, pp. 73-90. (10.1177/1474474020942796)
- Isherwood, J., Boyer, K. and Dowling, S. 2019. Local landscapes of breastfeeding: a comparison of breastfeeding experiences amongst mothers in low-and high-income neighbourhoods in Bristol, UK. Health and Place 59, article number: 102125. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.05.003)
- Tomori, C. and Boyer, K. 2019. Domestic geographies of parental and infant (co-) becomings: home-space, night-time breastfeeding, and parent-infant sleep.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 109(4), pp. 1172-1187. (10.1080/24694452.2018.1558628)
- Boyer, K. 2018. Breastmilk as agentic matter and the distributed agencies of infant feeding.. Studies in the Maternal 10(1) (10.16995/sim.257)
- Waight, E. and Boyer, K. 2018. The role of the non-human in relations of care: baby things. Cultural Geographies 25(3), pp. 459-472. (10.1177/1474474018758480)
- Boyer, K. 2018. The emotional resonances of breastfeeding in public: the role of strangers in breastfeeding practice. Emotion, Space and Society 26, pp. 33-40. (10.1016/j.emospa.2016.09.002)
- Boyer, K., Mayes, R. and Pini, B. 2017. Narrations and practices of mobility and immobility in the maintenance of gender dualisms. Mobilities 12(6), pp. 847-860. (10.1080/17450101.2017.1292027)
- Boyer, K., Dermott, E., James, A. and MacLeavy, J. 2017. Regendering care in the aftermath of recession?. Dialogues in Human Geography 7(1), pp. 56-73. (10.1177/2043820617691632)
- Boyer, K. and Spinney, J. 2016. Motherhood, mobility and materiality: Material entanglements, journey-making and the process of 'becoming mother. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34(6), pp. 1113-1131. (10.1177/0263775815622209)
- Mayes, R., Pini, B. and Boyer, K. 2015. Becoming Kalgoorlie. Griffith Review(47), article number: Online article.
- Boyer, K. 2014. ‘Neoliberal motherhood’: workplace lactation and changing conceptions of working motherhood in the contemporary US. Feminist Theory 15(3), pp. 269-288. (10.1177/1464700114545321)
- Buser, M., Bonura, C., Fannin, M. and Boyer, K. 2013. Cultural activism and the politics of place-making. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 17(5), pp. 606-627. (10.1080/13604813.2013.827840)
- Pini, B., Mayes, R. and Boyer, K. 2013. “Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town. Journal of Rural Studies 32, pp. 168-176. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.06.002)
- Boyer, K., Reimer, S. and Irvine, L. 2013. The nursery workspace, emotional labour, and contested understandings of commoditised childcare in the contemporary UK. Social & Cultural Geography 14(5), pp. 517-540. (10.1080/14649365.2012.710913)
- Boyer, K. 2012. Affect, corporeality and the limits of belonging: breastfeeding in public in the contemporary UK. Health & Place 18(3), pp. 552-560. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.01.010)
- Boyer, K. 2011. The way to break the taboo is to do the taboo thing: breastfeeding in public and citizen activism in the UK. Health & Place 17(2), pp. 430-437. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.06.013)
- Boyer, K. 2009. Of care and commodities: breast milk and the new politics of mobile biosubstances. Progress in Human Geography 34(1), pp. 5-20. (10.1177/0309132509105003)
- England, K. and Boyer, K. 2009. Women's work: the feminization and shifting meanings of clerical work. Journal of Social History 43(2), pp. 307-340. (10.1353/jsh.0.0284)
- Boyer, K. and England, K. 2008. Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: from typewriters to ATMs. Social & Cultural Geography 9(3), pp. 241-256. (10.1080/14649360801990462)
- Boyer, K. 2006. Reform and resistance: a consideration of space, scale and strategy in legal challenges to welfare reform. Antipode 38(1), pp. 22-40. (10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00563.x)
- Boyer, K. 2006. Guest Editor’s introduction: gender, space and technology. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 5(1), pp. 1-8.
- Boyer, K. 2005. For home and country? Engendering nationalism in the workplace. Social & Cultural Geography 6(2), pp. 183-199. (10.1080/14649360500074626)
- Boyer, K. 2004. "Miss Remington" goes to work: gender, space, and technology at the dawn of the Information Age. The Professional Geographer 56(2), pp. 201-212. (10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05602005.x)
- Boyer, K. 2003. "Neither forget nor remember your sex”: sexual politics in the early twentieth-century Canadian office. The Journal of Historical Geography 29(2), pp. 212-229. (10.1006/jhge.2002.0418)
- Boyer, K. 2003. At work, at home? New geographies of work and care-giving under welfare reform in the US. Space and Polity 7(1), pp. 75-86. (10.1080/13562570309246)
Llyfrau
- Boyer, K., Eaves, L. E. and Fluri, J. eds. 2023. Activist feminist geographies.. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Dowling, S., Pontin, D. and Boyer, K. eds. 2018. Social experiences of breastfeeding: Building bridges between research, policy and practice.. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Boyer, K. 2018. Spaces and politics of motherhood. Rowman & Littlefield International.
- Layne, L. L., Vostral, S. L. and Boyer, K. eds. 2010. Feminist technology. Women, Gender and Technology. University of Ilinois Press.
Ymchwil
I am interested in how understandings about gender, work and the body are produced in and through space; together with how these processes bear upon health, wellbeing and social justice. I am currently exploring these interests through three inter-related streams of research. The first examines new cultures and spaces of parenting in the contemporary UK, including the socio-spatial practices of breastfeeding and parenting mobility.
The second research stream focuses on mobility the socio-technical systems that mediate the gendered body, including the parented body. A third research stream focuses on how wage-work and care-work relate to one another, including policy relating to work-life balance and the politics and economics of care-work. Drawing these research interests together, I am currently working on a two-year ESRC networking seminar series on breastfeeding in social perspective with Dr. Sally Dowling at the University of the West of England and Prof. David Pontin at the University of South Wales.
I have published work in such journals as Progress in Human Geography, Health and Place; Gender, Space and Culture; Rural Studies; Social and Cultural Geography and Antipode; and have co-edited book (with L. Layne and S. Vostral) with the University of Illinois Press on Feminist Technology.
Bywgraffiad
I am a lecturer in Human Geography, having received my PhD from McGill University and my MA from the University of British Columbia. Prior to coming to Cardiff in 2014 I served for seven years as a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton, and five years as a Visiting Assistant Professor (lecturer) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies in Troy, New York. I have also held positions as a lecturer in the School of Geography and Planning at the State University of New York, and as a policy researcher at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York. I have received multiple awards for my teaching, currently supervise three PhD students, and am open to supervising additional PhD students in areas relating to my fields of expertise.
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
Employment
- 2014 - present, Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- 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.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I would consider supervising any project relating to the broad fields of care-work, parenting or breastfeeding. I am also keen on supervising topics relating to education-based progammes aimed at reducing sexual harassment and sexual violence on University campuses and promoting more positive forms of masculinity and better understandings of consent, including enhansing understanding about which such programmes are most effective.