Jennifer Hyndman
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Robert C. Brown Hall (RCB 7137)
Phone: 778-782-5464
Facsimile: 778-782-5841
My research traverses political, economic, cultural and feminist geography, focusing on people's mobility, displacement, security. I am particularly concerned with the dynamics of conflict and disaster that create refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as international humanitarian responses to such crises. Recent work examines the intersection of conflict with the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, as well as the politics of international aid in these locations. I am also interested in geographies of immigration, exclusion, containment, and the production of 'securitized' space both in the Global South and in North America.
Current research includes:
| - | advancing the theoretical potential of feminist geopolitics as a post-foundational project of embodied epistemology and scale that decentres the state and other subjects of international relations. I have recently begun resesarch on the construction of the category ‘child soldier’. |
| - | analyzing conceptual links among conflict, aid, and migration in South and Southeast Asia and North America. I am working on a book length project comparing the outcomes of conflict/tsunami nexus in both Sri Lanka and Indonesia. |
| - | examining the transnational ‘traffic’ between refugees now living in Canada and their countries of origin (by which I mean economic, social, and political ties, relations of exchange and/or communication). Research with Ismaili Muslims from Ida Amin’s Uganda and other East African states is era in Vancouver is currently being written up with a team of amazing graduate students. |
| - | collaborating with a local non-governmental organization that assists in refugee resettlement to revisit research with refugees from Aceh, Indonesia five years since their arrival in Greater Vancouver. Specifically, we are assessing the specific needs of refugees who experienced prolonged displacement en route (often referred to as protracted refugee situations) and developing modes of data collection and follow up so as to develop better policies and services for new refugees to Canada. |
| - | collaborating with refugee scholars, service providers, and activists internationally through the ‘Refugee Research Network’, based on a SSHRC cluster grant at York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies. |
Key to this research program is the collaboration of strong graduate students; if you are interested in related research and doing graduate research in geography, feel free to contact me at hyndman@sfu.ca
Books
Giles, W. and J. Hyndman (eds.) Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones University of California Press, 2004.
Hyndman, J. Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2000).
Refereed Journal Articles
Hyndman, J. “Acts of Aid: Neoliberalism in a war zone,” forthcoming in Antipode.
Hyndman, J. “Siting Conflict and Peace in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia”, Norwegian Journal of Geography, forthcoming.
Waizenegger, A. & J. Hyndman. “Two Solitudes: post-tsunami & post-conflict Aceh”, accepted by Disasters, forthcoming.
Hyndman, J. "The geopolitics of pre- and post-tusnami aid to Sri Lanka" for Domains, forthcoming.
Hyndman, J. and A. Mountz. “Another brick in the wall? Neo-refoulement & the externalisation of asylum in Europe & Australia, Government & Opposition, 43:2, 2008.
Hyndman, J. “Feminism, Conflict and Disasters in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka”, Gender, Technology and Development, 12 (1): 101-121, 2008
Hyndman, J. “The Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97(2): 361-372, 2007.
Hyndman, J. “Feminist Geopolitics revisited: body counts in Iraq,” The Professional Geographer, 59(1): 35-46, 2007.
Hyndman, J. and J. Mclean. “Settling Like a State: Acehnese Refugees in Vancouver,” Journal of Refugee Studies 19(3): 345-360, 2006.
Hyndman, J., N. Schuurman, and R. Fiedler. “Size Matters: Attracting Immigrants to Canadian Cities,” Journal of International Migration and Integration, 7 (1): 1-26, 2006.
Fiedler, R., N. Schuurman, and J. Hyndman, “Hidden Homelessness in Greater Vancouver”, Cities, vol. 23(3): 205-216, 2006.
Mountz, A. and J. Hyndman. “Feminist Approaches to the Global Intimate”, Women’s Studies Quarterly, 34(1-2): 446-463, 2006.
Fiedler, R., N. Schuurman, and J. Hyndman. “Improving Census-based Socioeconomic GIS for Public Policy,” in ACME: international e-journal of critical geographies, 4(1): 145-171, 2006.
Sherrell, K. and J. Hyndman. “Global minds, local bodies: Kosovar Transnational connections beyond British Columbia”, Refuge, 23(1): 76-96, 2006.
Sherrell, K., J. Hyndman, and F. Preniqi. “Sharing the Wealth, Spreading the 'Burden': The Non-metropolitan Settlement of Kosovar Refugees in British Columbia,” in Canadian Journal of Ethnic Studies, vol. 37, pp. 76-96, 2005.
Hyndman, J. and M. de Alwis. "Bodies, Shrines, and Roads: Violence, (Im)mobility, and Displacement in Sri Lanka", Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 11, no. 4, 2004, pp. 535-57.
Hyndman, J. “Mind the gap: bridging feminist and political geography through geopolitics”, Political Geography, volume 23, pp. 307-322, 2004.
Hyndman, J. and M. de Alwis. "Beyond Gender: Towards A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarianism and Development in Sri Lanka" Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 212-226, 2003.
Hyndman, J. “Aid, Conflict, and Migration: the Canada-Sri Lanka Connection” in The Canadian Geographer, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 251-268, 2003.
Hyndman, J. “Preventive, Palliative, or Punitive? Safe spaces in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia, and Sri Lanka”, in Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 167-85, 2003.
Hyndman, J. “Beyond Either/Or: A feminist analysis of September 11th", in ACME: an international e-journal of critical geographies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-13, 2003. [Reprinted in The Geopolitics Reader, 2nd ed., eds. G. O Tuathail, S. Dalby, and P. Routledge, 2006].
Hyndman, J. "Business and Bludgeon at the Border: a transnational political economy of human displacement in Thailand and Burma", Geojournal 55, pp. 39-46, 2001 (copyright and printed in 2002).
Hyndman, J. “The Field as Here and Now, Not There and Then”, Geographical Review, 2001, vol. 91, no. 1-2, pp. 262-272.
Hyndman, J. “Change and Challenge at UNHCR: a retrospective of the past 50 years”, Refuge, 20: 1, 2001, pp. 45-53.
Hyndman, J. “Towards a Feminist Geopolitics”, The Canadian Geographer, vol. 45, no. 2, 2001, pp. 210-222.
Hyndman, J. and M. Walton-Roberts. “Interrogating Borders: A Transnational Approach to Refugee Research in Vancouver”, Canadian Geographer, 44: 3, 2000, pp. 244-258.
Hyndman, J. “Gender and Geography at Work: The Perils of Perfect Pluralism at UNHCR”, Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, 2000, pp. 48-53.
Hyndman, J. “Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: A Current Snapshot”, Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 1999, pp. 6-10.
Moss, P, K. J. DeBres, A. Cravey, J. Hyndman, K. Hirschboeck, and M. Masucci. “Towards Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for Ourselves and Others”, co-authored by in Journal of Geography for Higher Education, 23(3): 413-427, 1999.
Hyndman, J. “A Post-Cold War Geography of Forced Migration in Kenya and Somalia”, in The Professional Geographer, 51 (1): 104-114, 1999.
Hyndman, J. “Managing Difference: Gender and Culture in Humanitarian Emergencies”, in Gender, Place, and Culture, 5 (3): 241-260, 1998.
Hyndman, J. and B. V. Nylund.“UNHCR and The Status of Prima Facie Refugee Status in Kenya”, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 10, no. 1, 1998, pp. 21-48.
Kirby, A. and J. Hyndman. “The Americanization of American Geography,” GeoJournal, 45.1-2:51-56, 1998.
Hyndman, J. “Border Crossings” in Antipode, 29:2, 1997, pp. 149-176.
Hyndman, J. “Solo Feminism: A Lesson in Space” in Antipode, 27:2, 1995, pp. 197-207.
Chapters in Books
Hyndman, J. “Whose Bodies Count? Feminist Geopolitics and Lessons from Iraq,” in R. L. Riley, C. M. Mohanty, and M. B. Pratt (eds.), in Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism (London: Zed Books, 2008), pp. 192-204.
Hyndman, J. and M. de Alwis. “Reconstituting the Subject: Displaced Women and Humanitarian Assistance in Sri Lanka,” Not Born a Refugee Woman, in N. Khanlou and M. Ahmed (eds.) (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Press, 2008).
Hyndman, J. “Conflict, Citizenship, and Human Security: Geographies of Protection”, in D. Cohen and E. Gilbert (eds.) War, Citizenship, Territory (Routledge, 2007), pp. 241-57.
Hyndman, J. and A. Mountz, “Refuge or refusal: geography of exclusion”, in D. Gregory and A. Pred (eds.) Violent Geographies (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 77-92.
Hyndman, J. "Feminist geopolitics and 9-11," in Eds. L. Nelson and J. Seager, A Companion to Feminist Geography, (Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 565-577.
Hyndman, J. “The Politics of Mobility and Access”, in Eds. L. Staeheli, E. Kofman, and L. Peake , Mapping Women, Making Politics, (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp 169-184.
Hyndman, J. “Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing”, in The Gender Companion (eds. D. Goldberg, P. Essed, and A. Kobayashi), Blackwell Publishers, 2005, pp.202-211.
Hyndman, J. "Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: the Politics of Gender", a chapter in Sites of Violence, 2004, pp. 193-212.
Hyndman, J. and M. de Alwis. “Performing the Pass: Conflict, Mobility, and Displacement in Sri Lanka,” in Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, edited by B. P. Lorente, N. Piper, Shen Sui-Hua, and B. S. A. Yeoh. Singapore: Asian Research Institute, pp. 25-49, 2005 (reprint of 2004 GPC).
Editorials and Commentaries
Hyndman, J. “The Geopolitics of Parental Leave Among Academics,” Editorial for Geoforum, forthcoming.
Hyndman, J. “Migration Wars: Refuge or Refusal?” editorial, Geoforum, 36(1): 3-6, 2005.
Hyndman, J. “Musings from a North Paw” in Lines, an online journal from Sri Lanka, vol. 4 issue 1, May 2005, www.lines-magazine.org/
Hyndman, J. “Revisiting Mackinder 1904-2004”, a commentary in The Geographical Journal, vol. 170, no. 4, pp. 380-383, December 2004.
Under Review
Hyndman, J. “The Rise of Geopolitics and Its Critics: Tracing the Child Soldier in the ‘War on Terror’” for Political Geography.
Hyndman, J. and W. Giles. “Waiting: Linking Protracted Refugee Situations to Asylum Policies in the Global North, under review at Gender, Place, and Culture.
Hyndman, J. “‘No More Tears Sister’: Feminism, Activism, Politics” under review by M. Hays-Mitchell and J. Irvine (eds) Gender and Democratization in Conflict Settings.
Paynter, S. and J. Hyndman. “Aid and the Development Dilemma in India,” under review at Journal of International Development.
Houston, S., J. Mclean, J. Hyndman, A. Jamal. “Methodologically Becoming Two/Too,” under review at Gender, Place and Culture.
Houston, S., J. Hyndman, A. Jamal, and J. Mclean. “Methodological Innovations of Team Research,” submitted to Geoforum.
Non-refereed Articles
Hyndman, J. “Waiting for What? The Humanitarian Dilemma of Protracted Refugee Situations at Home and Abroad”, World Bulletin special issue on International Protection. Ottawa: Government of Canada, 2008, pp. 24-28.
McLean, J., C. Friesen, & J. Hyndman. “The First 365 Days: Acehnese Refugees in Vancouver,” RIIM working paper #06-07, 2006, available at riim.metropolis.net.
Fiedler, R., J. Hyndman, and N. Schuurman. “Locating Spatially Concentrated Risk of Homelessness amongst Recent Immigrants in Greater Vancouver”, RIIM #06-10, 2006.
Hyndman, J. and M. de Alwis. “Capacity building, accountability and humanitarianism”, Forced Migration Review, issue 8, August 2000, pp. 16-19. [This article was reprinted in Pravada [a Sri Lankan periodical]: vol. 7 (2), 2001: 7-10.]
Hyndman, J. “Globalization, Immigration, and the Gender Implications of Not Just Numbers in Canada”, in Refuge, vol. 18, no. 1, 1999, pp. 26-31.
Hyndman, J. and M. Walton-Roberts. “Migration and Nation: Burmese Refugees in Vancouver,” RIIM working paper #99-07, February 1999.
Hyndman, J. “Representing Refugee Women: Gender and Work in Three Kenyan Camps”, in Refuge, vol. 17, no. 1, 1998, pp. 10-15.
Hyndman, J. “Managing and Containing Displacement after the Cold War: UNHCR and Somali refugees in Kenya”, Refuge, vol. 16, no. 5, 1997, pp. 6-10.
Hyndman, J. “‘Refugee Self-Management’ and the Question of Governance,” Refuge, vol. 16, no. 2, 1997, pp. 16-22.
Hyndman, J. “International Responses to Human Displacement: Neo-liberalism and Post-Cold War Geopolitics” in Refuge, vol. 15, no. 3, June 1996, pp. 5-9.
Hyndman, J.“UNHCR: The State of the World’s Refugees”, a review essay in International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 8, no. 1/2, 1996, pp. 276-284.
Geog 221 - Economic Geography
Geog 387 - Geography and Gender
Geog 446 - Globalization and Migration
Graduate Courses
Geog 646 - Geographies of Globalization
- Graduate students may contact me about Master's or Doctoral research at my email.