Faculty Affiliate Kim England, Professor in the Department of Geography and an Adjunct Professor of Women Studies, is interested in the interconnections between inequalities, labor markets, and care work in North America. Her current research primarily focuses on four themes: (1) economic and social restructuring, local labor markets and workplaces, (2) households, paid care work and ‘the home’, especially in terms feminist theories of ‘the state’, social policy formation and welfare systems; (3) the gendering of urban spaces, places and landscapes; and (4) the interconnections between critical theories, epistemologies and research methods.
 

Major Research Projects:

• The many dimensions and multi-scalar process of Neoliberalization
• The shifting geographies of care work
• Social identities and the gendered urban geographies of office work in North American cities

Sample Publications:

•   Kim England and Kevin Ward, eds. (2007)Neo-Liberalization: States, Networks, Peoples International Antipode/Blackwell book series.
• Kim England and Isabel Dyck (2009) “Care-giving, Care-receiving and the Relational Dynamics of Body Work” (submitted).
• Kim England and Kate Boyer (2009) “Women’s Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work” Journal of Social History, 43(2): 307-340 (forthcoming).
• Kate Boyer and Kim England (2008) “Gender, Work and Technology in the Information Workplace: From Typewriters to ATMs” Social and Cultural Geography, 9(3): 241-256..

Contact Information:

Kim England
Email: england@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/england/
Kim England’s CV