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Allison Goebel

Professor

Allison GoebelContact Information

Office: Rm 3125 Biosciences Complex
Email: goebela@queensu.ca
Mailing Address:
School of Environmental Studies
成人大片
Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
K7L 3N6

Department & Associations

Dr. Allison Goebel is a Queen's National Scholar.  As of July 1, 2010, she is the first full faculty member for The School of Environmental Studies.

Dr. Goebel holds cross-appointments in the departments of Gender Studies, Sociology, Global Development Studies and Cultural Studies.

Supervising

Please direct inquiries to the contact information provided.

New Master's or PhD position examining Post-Extractive Transitions available for September 2023-24 start!

Academic Training

B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Saint Mary's), Ph.D. (Alberta)

General Academic Interests

She is a sociologist whose main research interests include:

  • Environmental Justice
  • Women, Health and Environment
  • Local Food Issues/Movements
  • Gender, Environment and Development in Africa - especially Southern Africa, including use or Management of Natural Resources, Social Forestry, Agriculture, Urbanization and Housing, Social Impacts of Climate Change

. Lyon, Cherstin and Allison Goebel (eds). The Frontiers of the Political Series (Rowman and Littlefield Press. 2018).

On Their Own - Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa (McGill-成人大片 Press, 2015)

The Zimbabwe Experience (McGill-成人大片 Press, 2005). On Their Own Book Cover

Recent publications include:

  • Chapters in Books

    2022. 鈥淓ducation for Sustainability: An Ecological Citizenship Approach in a Neoliberal Age鈥 in The Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities edited by Naomi Krogman and Apryl Bergstrom. Edmonton: U. of Alberta Press. Chapter 12: 189-200.

    2018. 鈥淕endered Citizenship in Urban South Africa post-1994: Welfare and Rights as Justice for Women?鈥 In Place and Citizenship. Case Studies on the Borders of Citizenship. Rowman and Littlefield Press.

    2014. Belinda Dodson and Allison Goebel. 鈥淕ender and Food Security鈥 in D.L. Kleinman, K.A. Cloud-Hansen and J. Handelsman (eds). Controversies in Science and Technology. Volume 4. From Sustainability to Surveillance. Oxford University Press: 137-149.

    Exhibition:

    鈥淪tories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang Collection鈥. Curated by Allison Goebel and Marc Epprecht. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen鈥檚 University, Kingston, Ontario. April 30, 2016-April 8, 2018.

    Articles in Refereed Journals

    2022. Kaitlin Gibson, Alina Dixon, Allison Goebel & Susan Bartels. 鈥淟ove, sex, and Exchange in the Context of Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo鈥, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 29 (4): 678-705. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2022.2094781

    2022. Allison Goebel and Marc Epprecht. 鈥淒ecolonizing an African Art Collection in Canada? Reflections on the exhibition 鈥淪tories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang Collection鈥 2016-2018.鈥 Canadian Journal of African Studies 56 (1): 1-35. (https://doi-org.proxy.queensu.ca/10.1080/00083968.2020.1813600)

    2020. Graham, Peter, Cassandra Kuyvenhoven, Rena Upitis, Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, Eli Scheinman, Colin Khan, Allison Goebel, R. Stephen Brown and Alice Hovorka. 鈥淭he Emotional Experience of Sustainability Courses: Learned Eco-Anxiety, Potential Ontological Adjustment鈥 Journal of Education for Sustainable Development: 14(2): 190-204. 10.1177/0973408220981163

    2016. Hlahla, S., A. Goebel, T.R. Hill .鈥Green Economy: A strategy to alleviate urban poverty and safeguard the environment?  KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa鈥 Urban Forum   27 (1): 113-127.

    (first online October 2015) ink.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-015-9263-7#

    2015. Hlahla, S., T.R. Hill and A. Goebel. 鈥溾楴o longer going to sleep hungry鈥: Income generation through urban 鈥榞reen-preneurship鈥, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa鈥.  Skills @ Work. Theory and Practice Vol. 7, 2014: 67-77 (published December 2015).

    2011. Allison Goebel and Belinda Dodson. 鈥淗ousing and Marginality for Female-Headed Households: Observations from Msunduzi Municipality (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)鈥 Canadian Journal of African Studies 45(2) 240-272.

    2011. 'Our Struggle is for the Full Loaf鈥: Protests, Social Welfare and Gendered Citizenship in South Africa鈥 Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(2): 369-388.