165 Thorneloe College
(705) 673-1730, ext. 39
jljohnson@laurentian.ca
Research Interests
My research interests are based in an interdisciplinary background in Women’s Studies. I hold degrees from York University (PhD), the University of Oxford (MSt) and Queen’s University (BA Hons) through which I developed interests in the study of feminist geography and political economy; gender, work and global economies; race and racism; sexualities, (hetero)sexualities and masculinity.
My existing research projects include publications forthcoming from my doctoral research entitled: “'All's fair in love, war and negotiations’: Gender, nation and spaces of corporate capital at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)”. This research was conducted in Canada and in five Caribbean Community countries and re-centers the interests of so-called ‘smaller economies’ in global flows of international trade. I am pursuing an interest in elite spaces of work through the study of structural and cultural representations of these spaces; these include industrial and militarized spaces in which whiteness and hetero-masculinity are centralized. I also have an interest in feminist methodologies necessary for studying elite spaces of work and in feminist pedagogy.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications
Calixte, Shana, Jennifer Johnson and Maki Motapanyane. “Liberal, socialist and radical feminism: an introduction to three theories of women’s oppression.” Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality. 5th Edition. Ed. Nancy Mandell. Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2010.
Calixte, Shana, Jennifer Johnson and Maki Motapanyane. “Liberal, socialist and radical feminism: an introduction to three theories of women’s oppression.” Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality. 4th Edition. Ed. Nancy Mandell. Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2004.
Recent Presentations
“Imaging/Imagining Gender and Nation: Elite Spaces of Work as Regulatory Nodes in the Global Economy” at the Canadian Women’s Studies Association (CWSA), Panel title: “Transnational Mobilities: Bodies and Minds on the Move.” Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council at Concordia University, Canada, May 28-31, 2010.
“Gender and Nation: Elite Spaces of Work as Regulatory Nodes in the Global Economy” sponsored by the Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group at the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Panel title: “Geographies of Privilege.” Washington D.C., United States of America, April 14-19, 2009.
“Is Supplication a Feminist Methodology? Research in Elite Spaces of Work” at the Canadian Women’s Studies Association (CWSA), Panel title: “Ethics, power and bodies in feminist methodologies.” Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council at Carleton University, Canada, May 24-26, 2009.
“Eating ‘the Other’ and Marketing to the Center in a Free Trade Era: Gender, Race, and Class in Caribbean Exports” at the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), Panel title: ‘Eating the ‘Other’’’. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council at York University, Canada, June 1-2, 2006.