Kate Derickson
About Kate
Kate is an Associate Professor in the department of Geography, Environment, and Society. Her work engages political economy, critical race theory and feminist epistemology to explore the politics of knowledge production and the relationship between scholarly knowledge and emancipatory social change. She has published widely on the practice of engaged scholarship, race and neoliberalism, and urban theory informed in large part by her ongoing collaborations with communities of color in the American South and working class communities in the UK. Her work has appeared in a range of journals, including Society & Space, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, and Urban Studies.
Kate also co-directs the CREATE Initiative with Dr. Bonnie Keeler. CREATE supports research at the intersections of water and equity, particularly with communities whose priorities have historically been underrepresented in academic research. The CREATE Initiative aims to pilot new models of engaged-scholarship, grounded in historical context, that address geographies of racial inequality, infrastructure investments, and the delivery of environmental services. The Initiative also offers training to graduate students from a range of disciplines interested in designing collaborative co-developed research on environmental justice and water issues.
Kate is a co-editor at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Publications
Derickson, Kate Driscoll (2017). Masters of the Universe. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space online first.
Derickson, Kate Driscoll (2016). The assassination of Clementa Pinckney. The Southeastern Geographer
Derickson, Kate Driscoll (2016). Resilience is not enough. CITY
Derickson, Kate Driscoll (2013). "Capacitating" the otherwise and the epistemology of critical theory. Dialogues in Human Geography, 3, 226-239.