Paul Kingsbury’s research while affiliated with Simon Fraser University and other places

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Publications (53)


Reexamining the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Toward an Empathetic Pedagogy of the Civil Rights Movement
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January 2012

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The Professional Geographer

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Geographers have assessed the success and failure of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in terms of the African American struggle for justice, social identity, and economic survival. Conspicuously absent from the geographic literature are pedagogically oriented studies of the historical geography of the Civil Rights era. The Movement's popular image has congealed into a celebratory collection of names and dates, the sum of which is a vague, nearly mythic retelling that students might recognize but not necessarily care about. As a result, the Movement is at once contemptuously familiar yet bewilderingly strange for our students. This article offers a sympathetic critique of conventional Movement narratives, introducing the notion of empathetic pedagogy and presenting a case study of the Montgomery bus boycott. Our pedagogical approach stresses the role of empathy, both as a factor in shaping the actual sociospatial development of the Movement, as well as a strategy for encouraging students to appreciate the everyday courage and sacrifice that animated so many of its participants. Our study brings together two burgeoning literatures that have the potential to cultivate empathy among students: the critical reevaluation of mobility and explorations of subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective. Here mobility is understood in both its literal and figurative sense: in the case of the bus boycott, the intricate network established to literally move African Americans around the city, as well as the figurative movement of sympathy and solidarity that “moved” people to support their efforts and now informs popular, selective understandings of the protest.

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FIGURA 1: CARTEL PUBLICITARIO DE UN HOSPITAL, INDIA. 2010.  
FIGURA 2: EL INTERIOR DE UNA CLÍNICA PARA EL TRATAMIENTO DE PACIENTES INTERNACIONALES, BARBADOS. 2011
FIGURA 3: LOS PAÍSES DE DESTINO DE LOS PARTICIPANTES.  
FIGURA 4: DIRECTORIO DE MÉDICOS DE UN HOSPITAL QUE LE OFRECE ATENCIÓN A LOS TURISTAS MÉDICOS, INDIA. 2010.  
FIGURA 5: CENTRO TURÍSTICO PARA LA RECUPERACIÓN DE LOS PACIENTES, INDIA. 2010. [1]

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Perspectivas sobre el involucramiento de los canadienses en el turismo médico

September 2011

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What do we know about Canadian Involvement in medical tourism? A scoping review

August 2011

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Open Medicine

Medical tourism, the intentional pursuit of elective medical treatments in foreign countries, is a rapidly growing global industry. Canadians are among those crossing international borders to seek out privately purchased medical care. Given Canada's universally accessible, single-payer domestic health care system, important implications emerge from Canadians' private engagement in medical tourism. A scoping review was conducted of the popular, academic, and business literature to synthesize what is currently known about Canadian involvement in medical tourism. Of the 348 sources that were reviewed either partly or in full, 113 were ultimately included in the review. The review demonstrates that there is an extreme paucity of academic, empirical literature examining medical tourism in general or the Canadian context more specifically. Canadians are engaged with the medical tourism industry not just as patients but also as investors and business people. There have been a limited number of instances of Canadians having their medical tourism expenses reimbursed by the public medicare system. Wait times are by far the most heavily cited driver of Canadians' involvement in medical tourism. However, despite its treatment as fact, there is no empirical research to support or contradict this point. Although medical tourism is often discussed in the Canadian context, a paucity of data on this practice complicates our understanding of its scope and impact.


The World Cup and the National Thing on Commercial Drive, Vancouver

August 2011

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Environment and Planning D Society and Space

Nationalism is central to global sports events such as the Olympics and the men's football World Cup. Recognizing the unique capacity of these multibillion dollar 'mega-events' to stage captivating spectacles and generate intense enjoyment for vast numbers of people, researchers usually examine sport-induced nationalism in terms of the socioeconomic staging of national identities, meanings. and ideologies. And yet, few theoretical and empirical studies ask the following questions: Why are nationalist sports spectacles so emotive for so many people? How do sports fans enjoy these televised global events in concrete local settings of, for example, cafes, streets, and sports bars? This paper attempts to provide answers by drawing on Slavoj Zizek's Lacanian concept of the "national Thine" and one month of research on the 2006 FIFA World Cup on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I explore how the national Thing-a specific incarnation of social enjoyment -takes place in people's consumption of the World Cup in terms of community, belief. and anxiety.


Common Destinations Used By Canadian Medical Tourism Facilitators. Figure 1 shows destination countries commonly used by the 12 interviewed medical tourism facilitators. Solid arrows indicate primary destinations. These are destinations that are used on a regular basis. Dashed arrows indicate secondary destinations. These are destinations that are used sometimes, though not infrequently. The United States of America (USA), Cuba, India, and Thailand are all primary destinations for 4 facilitators. Mexico and Costa Rica are the most common secondary destinations, each being used by 3 facilitators. New Zealand, Malaysia, Barbados, the United Kingdom (UK), and the Bahamas are each secondary destinations for 1 facilitator.
Motivations for Canadians' Engagement in Medical Tourism as Reported by Facilitators.
An industry perspective on Canadian patients' involvement in Medical Tourism: Implications for public health

May 2011

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BMC Public Health

The medical tourism industry, which assists patients with accessing non-emergency medical care abroad, has grown rapidly in recent years. A lack of reliable data about medical tourism makes it difficult to create policy, health system, and public health responses to address the associated risks and shortcomings, such as spread of infectious diseases, associated with this industry. This article addresses this knowledge gap by analyzing interviews conducted with Canadian medical tourism facilitators in order to understand Canadian patients' involvement in medical tourism and the implications of this involvement for public health. Semi-structured phone interviews were conducted with 12 medical facilitators from 10 companies in 2010. An exhaustive recruitment strategy was used to identify interviewees. Questions focused on business dimensions, information exchange, medical tourists' decision-making, and facilitators' roles in medical tourism. Thematic analysis was undertaken following data collection. Facilitators helped their Canadian clients travel to 11 different countries. Estimates of the number of clients sent abroad annually varied due to demand factors. Facilitators commonly worked with medical tourists aged between 40 and 60 from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds who faced a number of potential barriers including affordability, fear of the unfamiliar, and lack of confidence. Medical tourists who chose not to use facilitators' services were thought to be interested in saving money or have cultural/familial connections to the destination country. Canadian doctors were commonly identified as barriers to securing clients. No effective Canadian public health response to medical tourism can treat medical tourists as a unified group with similar motivations for engaging in medical tourism and choosing similar mechanisms for doing so. This situation may be echoed in other countries with patients seeking care abroad. Therefore, a call for a comprehensive public health response to medical tourism and its effects should be coupled with a clear understanding that medical tourism is a highly diverse practice. This response must also acknowledge facilitators as important stakeholders in medical tourism.


Sociospatial Sublimation: The Human Resources of Love in Sandals Resorts International, Jamaica

May 2011

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Interactions between visitors and workers are central to tourism. In the Global South, this relationship usually consists of the spatial concentration and division of people with vastly contrasting economic resources and cultural identities. Research on the commodification of tourism in the Global South, then, focuses on the uneasy confluence of poor and dependent service workers who labor so that wealthy and privileged tourists can enjoy. Drawing on the work of Slavoj Zizek, this article argues that the current approaches to these interactions, although exposing the capitalist ocontentso concealed behind tourism's alluring commodity form, fail to examine the osecretso of the form itself; that is, the enjoyment generated between workers and tourists. As a result, researchers have yet to fully explain howwith all its socioeconomic contradictions of smiles and servility, luxury and povertythe commodity form of tourism in the Global South endures. To elaborate my argument, I use Jacques Lacan's concept of sublimation and an organizational ethnography of the all-inclusive hotel company Sandals Resorts International, headquartered in Jamaica. I explore two ways through which sublimation, a place- and value-making activity par excellence, informs the commodified interactions between Sandals service workers and tourists: first, how management discourses oelevateo workers to the oplace of the Thingoa place that radiates sublime enjoyment; second, how workers avoid the dangers of overwhelming guests with too much enjoyment by following the practices of olove-sublimationo codified in the fantasies of oGuest Courtesyo and oThe Sandals Customer Service Checklist.o.


The 'Patient's Physician One-Step Removed': The evolving roles of medical tourism facilitators

April 2011

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Journal of Medical Ethics

Medical tourism involves patients travelling internationally to receive medical services. This practice raises a range of ethical issues, including potential harms to the patient's home and destination country and risks to the patient's own health. Medical tourists often engage the services of a facilitator who may book travel and accommodation and link the patient with a hospital abroad. Facilitators have the potential to exacerbate or mitigate the ethical concerns associated with medical tourism, but their roles are poorly understood. 12 facilitators were interviewed from 10 Canadian medical tourism companies. Three themes were identified: facilitators' roles towards the patient, health system and medical tourism industry. Facilitators' roles towards the patient were typically described in terms of advocacy and the provision of information, but limited by facilitators' legal liability. Facilitators felt they played a positive role in the lives of their patients and the Canadian health system and served as catalysts for reform, although they noted an adversarial relationship with some Canadian physicians. Many facilitators described personally visiting medical tourism sites and forming personal relationships with surgeons abroad, but noted the need for greater regulation of their industry. Facilitators play a substantial and evolving role in the practice of medical tourism and may be entering a period of professionalisation. Because of the key role of facilitators in determining the effects of medical tourism on patients and public health, this paper recommends a planned conversation between medical tourism stakeholders to define and shape facilitators' roles.


Citations (39)


... This paper also calls for more geographers to study crime fiction. So, while there has been some engagement with crime fiction by geographers and in geography journals (see, for instance, Howell, 1998;Schmid, 1995;Brosseau and Le Bel, 2016;McLaughlin, 2016;Kingsbury, 2023), the genre has largely been overlooked by the discipline. Yet, crime fiction has much more to offer geography. ...

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The subterranean in crime fiction: examining Edinburgh’s underground in Ian Rankin’s John Rebus novels
A literary geography of the sinthome: the case of Sherlock Holmes and The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia
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  • August 2021

... The notion of total 'otherness' achieves its maximum when family members allow themselves to disconnect from any moral responsibility for what happens to 'it.' In and of itself, this moral chasm is humiliating (Burnham, 2021). To put it another way, the parent says it again and again: "if he could only comprehend us" (Kafka, 1915:76), and Grete begins to wonder, "How can that be Gregor?" ...

Lacan and the Environment
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... Additionally, scholars such as Fredric Jameson, Alain Badiou, Mari Ruti, and Todd McGowan offer significant interpretations of Lacan-Marx-Hegel that also inform my analysis. This radical, transdisciplinary scholarship has much to offer the domain of critical political theory and geography (see Pohl and Kingsbury, 2021;Pohl and Swyngedouw, 2023). Their perspectives share a common interest in understanding our individual and collective relationships toward antagonism and emancipation and will be useful for understanding the events that take place in Hot Skull. ...

The Most Sublime Geographer: Žižek with Place, Distance, and Scale

... Second, the cave's unending mystery "captures" them and drives them forward; we might consider this a kind of constitutive non-knowledge. Perhaps akin to the psychoanalytic concept of "The Thing" which can never be attained (Keane and Kingsbury, 2021), this mystery is manifest in an imagination and experience of the cave as inexhaustible--and thus manifests as an insatiable desire to continue onward. If "to think with caves or within caves is to be required to play with questions of knowing" (Parrott and Hawkins, 2021: 97) for no other reason than the weight of Platonic allegory, Bachelard suggests that "In poetry, non-knowing is a primal condition" (2014: 17). ...

Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the Cryptozoological Thing
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  • February 2021

... Both have occurred. Recently, scholars across disciplines have taken anomalies more seriously, from cooperation within academia to conferences and written collaboration with public partners (Agrama, 2021;Graves, 2023;Kingsbury, 2019;Kripal, 2011;Limina, 2023;Masters, 2021;Wendt and Duvall, 2008). During the weekend of February 10, 2023, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) made international headlines when it shot down three UAP: one over the Alaskan coast on Friday, one over central Yukon on Saturday, and one over Lake Huron on Sunday. ...

Go figural: crop circle research and the extraordinary rifts of landscape
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  • November 2018

Cultural Geographies

... Secor captures this 'lack in nature' when she highlights that even water is not 'supposed to know', and thus lacks a firm and stable instinctual foundation, or that lightning knows 'nothing of the ground' before it hits the earth. In Lacanian terms, I read this part of Secor's argument as a powerful statement that 'the big Other does not exist'neither in culture (Kingsbury, 2017) nor in nature (Pohl, 2020). The big Other would indicate that there is an indissoluble and consistent 'ground' that constitutes a firm ontological basis for both knowledge and action. ...

Uneasiness in culture, or negotiating the sublime distances towards the big Other
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  • June 2017

Geography Compass

... Links between social integration and social enterprise workspaces are poorly understood, and lack empirical assessment (Keane et al., 2017). We applied mixed methods to explore how relations within a social enterprise contribute to social integration. ...

Linking online social proximity and workplace location: social enterprise employees in British Columbia

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... 6 Even if no one pictures enjoyment as a question raised by Lefebvre and Lacan, this is by far the first geographic contribution to Lacanian enjoyment. Paul Kingsbury (2005) pictures the "politics of enjoyment" regarding Jamaican tourism, Jesse Proudfoot (2010) gives an example of enjoyment as "extradiscursive" by reflecting on interviews during an international soccer competition in Vancouver, and Proudfoot and Kingsbury (2014) have published a work on "phallic jouissance" by focusing on masculine sexuation in submarine films, to mention just a few essential works. ...

Periscope down! charting masculine sexuation in submarine films
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  • June 2014

... Focussing on the work accomplished in the Claude Glass, positioned between a looking subject and an emergent landscape, affords us with the opportunity metaphorically to understand that concepts, too, are never more than the work they accomplish. 27 In other words, the Claude Glass invites us to shift our attention from the constructedness of landscapes towards the conditions of their construction. Such a broadly structural understanding of the process of landscape generation allows for analyses of landscapes that no longer require the postulation of highly questionable subject-positions. ...

Introduction: The unconscious, transference, drives, repetition and other things tied to geography
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  • June 2014

... Further, the importance of involving ethnic minorities in the planning and programming of such festivals is evident. The NBF enabled migrant communities to control the inclusion of experiences within the event, reducing hegemonic power often evident in liberal state-sponsored multicultural policies and practices (Kingsbury, 2016). Further, by acknowledging that ethnic minorities are internally different and providing a platform for these variations to be represented, the NBF moves away from depicting a 'united front' to its audience (Fincher et al., 2014, p. 44), thus increasing the authenticity of the event. ...

Rethinking the Aesthetic Geographies of Multicultural Festivals: A Nietzschean Perspective
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  • January 2016