Katherine Side
Much of my current research, based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is concerned with conceptualizations and applications of citizenship rights, including social, political and civil citizenship, human rights, and reproductive rights. In Northern Ireland my focus is primarily on the post-Good Friday Agreement period with a specific interest in contemporary transitions out of civil conflict. My ongoing research in this area encompasses women's representation in electoral politics, civil society organizing, and multi-scalar political involvement. I am particularly interested in sexual and reproductive rights and access for asylum seekers in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and comparatively in the European Union.
I am currently undertaking analyzes of historical photographs associated with 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland, with a particular interest in their contemporary circulation and meaning-(re)making.
With relation to rights and issues related to reproductive justice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, I focus on how access to legal reproductive services is shaped by, and through legal and human rights instruments, legislation, and legal interpretation at domestic levels, and at supra-national levels, including the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. My most recent research examines the intersections of mobility, migration, and access to reproductive services in the Republic of Ireland.
Research that is currently underway, and in various stages of publication, includes examinations of narrative and narratology as they relate to instances of conflict-instigated displacement in Northern Ireland, contemporary migration pathways from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and conflict and memorializing in Northern Ireland. Grounded in text, visual images, and digitized archives, my primary interest is in narrative types and political intentionality.
My research in visual analyzes extends to photographic collections of women volunteers at the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, including those women who travelled to the Grenfell Mission from outside of Canada to take up voluntary positions. Along with a doctoral student, I am working on a funded research project that examines three, separate, photograph collections. Two of these collections, (E. Mary Schwall Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Memorial University, and the Louise and Edith Hegan Collection, Provincial Archives) are available in Newfoundland and Labrador; I have accessed three further collections in archives in the United States. I have published in this area, and a co-edited collection, with Dr. Jennifer J. Connor, Faculty of Medicine, is in progress.
As a long standing scholarly interest, I also publish research related to the discipline, and disciplining, of Gender Studies. In particular, I am particularly interested in constructions of research methods and methodologies as integral aspects of the project of 'disciplining.'
I have also served as an External Reviewer for Academic Programme Reviews in Women's and/Gender Studies at a number of Canadian universities.
Phone: (709) 864-3322
Address: Department of Gender Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Canada
A1C 5S7
I am currently undertaking analyzes of historical photographs associated with 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland, with a particular interest in their contemporary circulation and meaning-(re)making.
With relation to rights and issues related to reproductive justice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, I focus on how access to legal reproductive services is shaped by, and through legal and human rights instruments, legislation, and legal interpretation at domestic levels, and at supra-national levels, including the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. My most recent research examines the intersections of mobility, migration, and access to reproductive services in the Republic of Ireland.
Research that is currently underway, and in various stages of publication, includes examinations of narrative and narratology as they relate to instances of conflict-instigated displacement in Northern Ireland, contemporary migration pathways from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and conflict and memorializing in Northern Ireland. Grounded in text, visual images, and digitized archives, my primary interest is in narrative types and political intentionality.
My research in visual analyzes extends to photographic collections of women volunteers at the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, including those women who travelled to the Grenfell Mission from outside of Canada to take up voluntary positions. Along with a doctoral student, I am working on a funded research project that examines three, separate, photograph collections. Two of these collections, (E. Mary Schwall Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Memorial University, and the Louise and Edith Hegan Collection, Provincial Archives) are available in Newfoundland and Labrador; I have accessed three further collections in archives in the United States. I have published in this area, and a co-edited collection, with Dr. Jennifer J. Connor, Faculty of Medicine, is in progress.
As a long standing scholarly interest, I also publish research related to the discipline, and disciplining, of Gender Studies. In particular, I am particularly interested in constructions of research methods and methodologies as integral aspects of the project of 'disciplining.'
I have also served as an External Reviewer for Academic Programme Reviews in Women's and/Gender Studies at a number of Canadian universities.
Phone: (709) 864-3322
Address: Department of Gender Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Canada
A1C 5S7
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The Republic of Ireland’s public referendum on the 8th Amendment, in May 2018, is analyzed as a visual contestation over its previous constitutional and legal restrictions on legal abortion access. I use select visual campaign images, on posters and in social media, to explain how and why this visual contestation is both specific to public debates in the Republic of Ireland and consistent with scholarly analyses of presentations and strategies of visual realignment in other, international contexts. Focussing on visual images used in two specific campaigns to oppose abortion reform, Save the 8th and Love Both, I demonstrate and analyze their intentional shifts away from a previously male-led leadership and public visual expressions of religious (Roman Catholic) viewpoints. However, I highlight the consistency of the campaigns’ retention of the public display of foetal-centric images and expose their distrust of pregnant peoples’ decision-making abilities. I locate these strategies and displays of ongoing visual entrenchment and realignment in the context of Kath Browne’s “heteroactivist organizing” in Ireland that draws on racialized and nationalist visual discourses to oppose the liberalization laws, policies, and their actualization in contemporary post-colonial Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland’s public referendum on the 8th Amendment, in May 2018, is analyzed as a visual contestation over its previous constitutional and legal restrictions on legal abortion access. I use select visual campaign images, on posters and in social media, to explain how and why this visual contestation is both specific to public debates in the Republic of Ireland and consistent with scholarly analyses of presentations and strategies of visual realignment in other, international contexts. Focussing on visual images used in two specific campaigns to oppose abortion reform, Save the 8th and Love Both, I demonstrate and analyze their intentional shifts away from a previously male-led leadership and public visual expressions of religious (Roman Catholic) viewpoints. However, I highlight the consistency of the campaigns’ retention of the public display of foetal-centric images and expose their distrust of pregnant peoples’ decision-making abilities. I locate these strategies and displays of ongoing visual entrenchment and realignment in the context of Kath Browne’s “heteroactivist organizing” in Ireland that draws on racialized and nationalist visual discourses to oppose the liberalization laws, policies, and their actualization in contemporary post-colonial Ireland.