Prof. Dr. Katherine Gibson
Katherine Gibson is Professorial Research Fellow at the “Institute for Culture and Society” at Western Sydney University, a position she has held since 2009. Previously she has held positions as Professor and Head of the Department of Human Geography in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University (1999–2008) and Director of Women's Studies at Monash University (1992–1995). As a human geographer with a focus on political economy, she developed an approach to economic geography that draws on feminism, post-structuralism, anti-essentialist Marxism, and action research. She has led research projects on alternative economic development pathways with local communities in Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. As J.K. Gibson-Graham, she shares a collective authorial presence with the late Professor Julie Graham, with whom she co-founded the “Community Economies Collective”, an ongoing collaboration between academic and community researchers and activists in Australia, North America, Europe and South East Asia.
She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the British Academy. Together with Julie Graham, she received the Australia-International Medal from the Institute of Australian Geographers in 2010 and Distinguished Scholarship Honours from the Association of American Geographers in 2018.
Her publications include The Handbook of Diverse Economies (2020) co-edited with Kelly Dombroski; Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene co-edited with Deborah Bird Rose and Ruth Fincher; Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies co-authored with Gerda Roelvink and Kevin St. Martin (2015); Take Back the Economy: an Ethical Guide for Transforming Communities, co-authored with Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy (2013); A Postcapitalist Politics (2006); and The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (1996).