Catherine Kingfisher
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Degrees
BA (1981), Beloit College; MA (1988), Michigan State University; PhD (1992), Michigan State UniversityExpertise
Policy, power & inequality, personhood, neoliberalisms, globalization, language & discourse, happiness & wellbeing, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada, SamoaBiography
Catherine Kingfisher holds a BA (1981) from Beloit College, an MA (1988) from Michigan State University, and a PhD (1992) from Michigan State University.Selected Publications
A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Alberta Canada. Berghahn Books, 2013.
Women in the American Welfare Trap. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1996.
Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. (Editor)
Spatializing Neoliberalism: Articulations, Recapitulations and (a Very Few) Alternatives. In Neo-liberalization: States, Networks, Peoples, edited by Kim England and Kevin Ward. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 195-222. 2007.
Discursive Constructions of Homelessness in a Small City in the Canadian Prairies: Notes on Destructuration, Individualization, and the Production of (Raced and Gendered) Unmarked Categories. American Ethnologist 34(1): 91-107. 2007.
What D/discourse Analysis Can Tell Us About Neoliberal Constructions of (Gendered) Personhood: Some Notes on Commonsense and Temporality. Gender and Language 1(1): 91-103. 2006.
The Dialectic of Insecurity. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 13: 173-185. Special issue on Force of a Thousand Nightmares: Global Inequalities and the American Scene, edited by Micaela di Leonardo and Jeff Maskovsky. 2006.