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Jennifer Thompson's Outputs (14)

Embodied intersections: Gender, water and sanitation in Cameroon (2017)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. A., Gaskin, S. J., & Agbor, M. (2017). Embodied intersections: Gender, water and sanitation in Cameroon. Agenda, 31(1), 140-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2017.1341158

A cornerstone of feminist thinking, intersectionality offers a critical analytical tool for exploring how gender intersects with other social structures of power. However, this leaves intersectionality grounded firmly in social analysis. Becoming inc... Read More about Embodied intersections: Gender, water and sanitation in Cameroon.

Intersectionality and water: How social relations intersect with ecological difference (2016)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. A. (2016). Intersectionality and water: How social relations intersect with ecological difference. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(9), 1286-1301. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2016.1160038

A cornerstone of feminist scholarship, intersectionality theory and method explore how gender intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and class. However, in light of the entangled relationships between nature and society, this a... Read More about Intersectionality and water: How social relations intersect with ecological difference.

On writing notes in the field: Interrogating positionality, emotion, participation and ethics (2014)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. A. (2014). On writing notes in the field: Interrogating positionality, emotion, participation and ethics. McGill Journal of Education, 49(1), 247-254. https://doi.org/10.7202/1025781ar

Fieldnotes help researchers document research activities and position themselves in the field, invariably constructing the research, the researcher and the knowledges produced. Yet the process of how fieldnotes are produced often remains invisible. T... Read More about On writing notes in the field: Interrogating positionality, emotion, participation and ethics.

Obtaining meaningful informed consent: Preliminary results of a study to develop visual informed consent forms with children. (2014)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Casares, M., & Thompson, J. A. (2014). Obtaining meaningful informed consent: Preliminary results of a study to develop visual informed consent forms with children. Children's Geographies, 14(1), 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2014.971713

This pilot study explores children's understanding of informed consent (IC) and the potential of participatory visual methods for improving the IC process. Strategies used to improve the IC process have generated mixed evidence as to their ability to... Read More about Obtaining meaningful informed consent: Preliminary results of a study to develop visual informed consent forms with children..

Fetching water in the unholy hours of the night: The impacts of a water crisis on girls' sexual health in semi-urban Cameroon (2011)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. A., Folifac, F., & Gaskin, S. J. (2011). Fetching water in the unholy hours of the night: The impacts of a water crisis on girls' sexual health in semi-urban Cameroon. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 4(2), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2011.040208

In sub-Saharan Africa, girls' daily household chores often involve fetching water for their households. This article addresses the impact of uncertain water access in semi-urban Cameroon given the problems of rapid urbanization and increasing demands... Read More about Fetching water in the unholy hours of the night: The impacts of a water crisis on girls' sexual health in semi-urban Cameroon.

Picturing gendered water spaces: A textual approach to water in rural Sierra Leone (2011)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. A. (2011). Picturing gendered water spaces: A textual approach to water in rural Sierra Leone. Agenda, 25(2), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2011.575996

Photographs taken by women and men through a photovoice research project about conservation in rural Sierra Leone identify water as an important community resource. Water is crucial for survival. In this rural African context, women are responsible f... Read More about Picturing gendered water spaces: A textual approach to water in rural Sierra Leone.

“I am a farmer”: Young women address conservation using photovoice around Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone (2009)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. A. (2009). “I am a farmer”: Young women address conservation using photovoice around Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone. Agenda, 23(79), 65-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2009.9676224

You can express a different story through art. What happens when you use arts-based inquiry to explore environmental knowledge? How can artistic expression value and construct alternative knowledges that might otherwise be overlooked or silenced? Hol... Read More about “I am a farmer”: Young women address conservation using photovoice around Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone.