Post-Doc, Institute of Health Sciences
Higher Education Academy, Subject centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
The University of Leeds, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
The University of Leeds, Theology and Religious Studies
Thesis Title: Boundaries of the Body: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the lives of Women Trafficked for Sexual Exploitation
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Kim Knott
Shirley Tate |
About
I am a RA for the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences on a research project examining depression screening for people with diabetes and/or heart disease funded by the Research for Patient Benefit programme from the National Institute for Health Research. I am also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.
Previously I have been a Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds and an Academic Co-ordinator for the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies as part of the Higher Education Academy.
I have also lectured in other departments where my research interests lie, including Sociology and Geography.
My Thesis title was ‘Becoming the Border: De/Constructing Boundaries in the lives of Women who have been Trafficked for Sexual Exploitation.’ It examined the narratives of women who have been trafficked into sexual exploitation from the former Soviet Union to Israel. I analyzed Right to Remain letters, web-based data and interviews with NGOs to examine the impact of trafficking on body boundaries and their interaction with other bounded concepts such as nation and identity.
From this data I interrogated the emerging bounded themes of abjection and the sacred.
My theoretical approach engaged with theories of purity, pollution, shame, humiliation, agency, orientation, landscape, territory, sovereignty, disgust, borders, performativity and stigma. I demonstrated how each of these aspects is bounded and operates within the discourse surrounding trafficking.
I am also researching the role of religious organizations in the response to human trafficking.
I am currently finishing a chapter on citizenship that was originally presented at the conference 'Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging.'
I also am in the process of writing papers on the sacred as a geographical tool of analysis that can be used to theorize embodied stigma towards survivors of sexual violence. As well as a paper on the spaces of human trafficking. Please feel free to email me about these or any of my interests. I am always keen to collaborate in interdisciplinary gender based research.
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