Katherine Gibson, BSc (Hons) (Sydney), MA, PhD (Clark)
Professor and head of Department of Human Geography

Email: katherine.gibson@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I am an economic geographer working on rethinking economic concepts in the light of feminist, poststructuralist and class process theory. I have a strong commitment to action research with communities interested in reconstituting economic practices in place. I share a collective authorial presence as J.K. Gibson-Graham with my long-term collaborator Professor Julie Graham.

Research Interests

Diverse economies and alternative regional economic development in the Asia-Pacific region (PNG, Philippines, Indonesia), Australia and the US; international contract migration and community economic activism in the Asia-Pacific region; poststructuralist feminist critiques and reformulations of economic and geographic theory.

Key Publications

• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK and Cambridge USA, 1996.
• 'Regional subjection and becoming', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 19(6), 639-667, 2001.
• 'Women, identity and activism in Asian and Pacific community economies', Development, 45(1), 74–79, 2002.
• (with J. Cameron and as J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Feminising the economy: metaphors, strategies, politics', Gender, Place and Culture, 10(2), 145–157, 2003.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Enabling ethical economies: cooperativism and class', Critical Sociology, 29(2), 123–161, 2003.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Area Studies after poststructuralism', Environment and Planning A, 36(3), 405-419, 2004.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Economy', in T. Bennett, L. Grossberg and M. Morris (eds.) New Keywords, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 94-97, 2005.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Surplus possibilities: postdevelopment and community economies', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 26(1), 4-26, 2005.
• (with J. Cameron) 'Participatory action research in a poststructuralist vein', Geoforum, 36, 315-331, 2005.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) A Postcapitalist Politics, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) 'Introduction to the new edition: ten years on', in J K Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), reprinted with the new introduction by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, vii-xxxvi, 2006.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham) ‘Imagining and enacting a postcapitalist feminist economic politics’, Women’s Studies Quarterly, 34(1/2), 72–78, 2006.
• (as J.K. Gibson-Graham and with J. Cameron) ‘Community enterprises: Imagining and enacting alternatives to capitalism’, Social Alternatives, 26(1), 20–25, 2007.

Career Highlights

Collaborative Writing Fellowship, Rockefeller Study and Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy (2005); Visiting Professor, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa (1995); Director, Centre for Women's Studies, Monash University (1992-94).