Ph.D., University of Toronto, Geography, 2000-2005
Begging for Dollars in Gringopampa: Geographies of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Childhood in the Ecuadorian Andes (Download Dissertation)
Advisors: Sue Ruddick and Amrita Daniere
M.A., University of Guelph, Geography, 1997-1999
Environmental Policy Implementation in Rural China: A Case Study of Yuhang County, Zhejiang
Advisor: Richard Kuhn
B.A., University of Guelph, Geography and International Development, 1992-1996
Area of emphasis: Social and environmental issues in Latin America
Graduated with Distinction
I am broadly interested in poverty, exclusion and social justice. My interests can be subdivided further into six interrelated areas:
Swanson, Kate. 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series edited by Nik Heynen, Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Publisher's Page
Swanson, Kate. In Press. Pidiendo Caridad en la Ciudad: Mujeres y Niños Indígenas en las Calles de Ecuador. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO-Ecuador)-Abya Yala.
Swanson, Kate. Forthcoming. 'For every border, there is also a bridge': overturning borders in young indigenous lives. Children's Geographies.
Shubin, Sergei and Swanson, Kate. Forthcoming. "I'm an imaginary figure:" unravelling the mobility and exclusion of Scottish Gypsy Travellers. Geoforum.
Cumbers, Andy, Gesa Helms and Kate Swanson. 2010. Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 42:46-73. Download PDF
Swanson, Kate. 2008. Witches, children and Kiva-the-research dog: striking problems encountered in the field. Area 40: 55-64 (1). Download PDF
Swanson, Kate. 2007. "Bad mothers" and "delinquent children": unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 14: 703-720. Download PDF
Swanson, Kate. 2007. Revanchist urbanism heads south: the regulation of indigenous beggars and street vendors in Ecuador. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 39: 708-728. Download PDF
Swanson, Kate, Richard G. Kuhn and Wei Xu. 2001. Environmental policy implementation in rural China: a case study of Yuhang, Zhejiang. Environmental Management. 27: 481-491. Download PDF
Philo, Chris and Kate Swanson. 2008. Afterword: Global Portraits and Local Snapshots in Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. C. Jeffrey and J. Dyson (eds.). Temple University Press. Publisher's page