Dr Kezia Barker
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Kezia’s first degree was in Geography at Edinburgh University (2003). She then undertook an MSc in Science, Environment and Society in the Geography Department at UCL (2004), followed by a PhD in the same department (2008), working with Professor Gail Davies and Professor Jacquie Burgess, funded by an ESRC award. After a fixed term lectureship in the Geography department at Southampton University, Kezia joined Birkbeck in 2008.
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Institutional and alternative environmental futures
- Biopolitical and geographical theories of security
- Geographies of environmental knowledge, expertise and skill
- Cultures of nature and nonhuman geographies
- Biosecurity discourses, technologies and practices
- Food security and alternative food futures
- Environmental publics, citizenship, identity and subjectivity
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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ANUSCHKA ERKEMEIJ
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PERDI FENN
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Methods, Analysis and Techniques (GGPH056S5)
- Humans and the Environment (GGPH072S4)
- Surviving Catastrophic Times (SSGE118S7)
- Crossing Borders: Studying in SSHP (SSSS001S3)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Barker, Kezia (2022) Awakening from the sleep-walking society: crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives. EPD: Society and Space 40 (5), pp. 805-823. ISSN https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221123814.
- Barker, Kezia (2020) How to survive the end of the future: Preppers, pathology, and the everyday crisis of insecurity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 45 (2), pp. 483-496. ISSN 0020-2754.
- Barker, Kezia (2014) Biosecurity: securing circulations from the microbe to the macrocosm. Geographical Journal 181 (4), pp. 357-365. ISSN 0016-7398.
- Barker, Kezia (2012) Infectious insecurities: H1N1 and the politics of emerging infectious disease. Health & Place 18 (4), pp. 695-700. ISSN 1353-8292.
- Barker, Kezia (2012) Influenza preparedness and the bureaucratic reflex: anticipating and generating the 2009 H1N1 event. Health & Place 18 (4), pp. 701-709. ISSN 1353-8292.
- Chambers, J. and Barker, Kezia and Rouse, A. (2012) Reflections on the UK's approach to the 2009 swine flu pandemic: conflicts between national government and the local management of the public health response. Health & Place 18 (4), pp. 737-745. ISSN 1353-8292.
- Barker, Kezia (2010) Biosecure citizenship: politicising symbiotic associations and the construction of biological threat. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (3), pp. 350-363. ISSN 0020-2754.
- Barker, Kezia (2008) Flexible boundaries in biosecurity: accommodating gorse in Aotearoa New Zealand. Environment and Planning A 40 (7), pp. 1598-1614. ISSN 0308-518X.
- Barker, Kezia (2005) Alien nature: environmental cosmopolitanism or the McDonaldisation of the natural world?. Protect pp. 22-23. ISSN 1175-043X.
Book
- Barker, Kezia and Francis, R., eds. (2021) Routledge handbook of biosecurity and invasive species. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780815354895.
Book Section
- Barker, Kezia and Francis, R. (2021) Introduction: spatial tensions and divides in grappling with ‘invasive life’. In: Barker, Kezia and Francis, R. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780815354895.