Lise Kirsten Nelson

Interests

Teaching

Qualitative methods; gender; migration and globalization, citizenship and belonging, intersectional feminist theory; Latin America

Research

Globalization, migration and place; Citizenship and belonging across race, gender, class and legal status.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Nelson, L. K. (2007). A companion to feminist geography.
• Nelson, L. K. (2007). Introduction.
• Nelson, L., & Seager, J. (2005). A companion to feminist geography. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Chapters

• Nelson, L. K. (2020). On the subject of performativity: Judith Butler's influence in geography. In Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies. GB.
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  Lead author: Eden Kinkaid
• Nelson, L. K., & Antipode Editorial Collective, . (2019). Illegality. In Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50(pp 151-154). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781119558071
• Nelson, L. K., Joassart-Marcelli, P., & Bosco, F. J. (2017). Farm labor, immigration, and race. In Food and Place: A Critical Exploration(pp 69-86). Landham, MA: Roman & Littlefield.
• Nelson, L. (2016). Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging: Latino immigrants, recreation, and spaces of exclusion in the rural US South. In Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective(pp 125-141). New York: Routledge. doi:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682815
• Nelson, L. K. (2014). Engaging Butler: Subjects, cernment, and the ongoing limits of performativity. In Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space(pp 62-94). New York: Routledge. doi:https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203094587
• Nelson, L. K. (2010). Geographical perspectives on development studies. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.197
• Nelson, L., & Seager, J. (2005). Introduction: The poetics of bodies, spaces, place, and politics. In A Companion to Feminist Geography(pp 1-11). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Journals/Publications

• Nelson, L. K. (2021). Between aggrieved whiteness and class precarity: a feminist politics of interpretation. Gender, Place & Culture.
• Nelson, L. K. (2021). Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach. Progress in Human Geography.
• Nelson, L. K. (2020). Refugee resettlement, place, and the politics of Islamophobia. Social & Cultural Geography.
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  lead author: Lauren Fritzshe
• Mendez, J. B., & Nelson, L. (2016). Producing “Quality of Life” in the “Nuevo South”: The Spatial Dynamics of Latinos’ Social Reproduction in Southern Amenity Destinations. City and Society, 28(2), 129-151. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12079
• Nelson, L., Trautman, L., & Nelson, P. B. (2015). Latino Immigrants and Rural Gentrification: Race, “Illegality,” and Precarious Labor Regimes in the United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(4), 841-858. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1052338
• Nelson, P. B., Nelson, L., & Trautman, L. (2014). Linked migration and labor market flexibility in the rural amenity destinations in the United States. Journal of Rural Studies, 36, 121-136. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.07.008
• Kaufman, E., & Nelson, L. (2012). Malthus, gender and the demarcation of 'dangerous' bodies in 1996 US welfare reform. Gender, Place and Culture, 19(4), 429-448. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2011.625081
• Nelson, L., & Nelson, P. (2011). The global rural: Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA. Progress in Human Geography, 35(4), 441-459. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510380487
• Nelson, P., Oberg, A., & Nelson, L. (2010). Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States. Journal of Rural Studies, 26(4), 343-352. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.06.003
• Nelson, P., Ahn Wei, L., & Nelson, L. (2009). Linking baby boomer and hispanic migration streams into rural America - A multi-scaled approach. Population, Space and Place, 15(3), 277-293. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.520
• Nelson, L. K. (2008). Racialized landscapes: Whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon. Cultural Geographies, 15(1), 41-62. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007085782
• Nelson, L., & Hiemstra, N. (2008). Latino immigrants and the renegotiation of place and belonging in small town America. Social and Cultural Geography, 9(3), 319-342. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360801990538
• Nelson, L. (2007). FARMWORKER HOUSING AND SPACES OF BELONGING IN WOODBURN, OREGON*. Geographical Review, 97(4), 520-541. doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00410.x
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  This article traces the history of efforts to build subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon, during the early 1990s. Although the northern Willamette Valley has been dependent on Mexican ...
• Nelson, L. (2007). Farmworker housing and spaces of belonging in Woodburn, Oregon. Geographical Review, 97(4), 520-541. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00410.x
• Nelson, L. K. (2006). Artesania, mobility and the crafting of indigenous identities among Purhépechan women in Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography, 5(1), 51-77. doi:https://www.jstor.org/stable/25765123
• Nelson, L. K. (2006). Geographies of state power, protest, and women's political identity formation in Michoacán, Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(2), 366-389. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00482.x
• Nelson, L. K. (2004). Topographies of citizenship: Purhépechan Mexican women claiming political subjectives. Gender, Place and Culture, 11(2), 163-187. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369042000218437
• Nelson, L. K. (2003). Decentering the movement: Collective action, place, and the 'sedimentation' of radical political discourses. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
• Nelson, L. K. (1999). Bodies (and spaces) do matter: The limits of performativiy. Gender, Place and Culture.

Others

• Nelson, L. K. (2000). Remaking gender and citizenship in a Mexican indigenous community.
• Nelson, L. K. (1996). Neoliberalism as contested ideological terrain: state practices and peasant agencies in Michoacan, Mexico.