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Kendra Strauss
Researcher at Simon Fraser University
Publications - 57
Citations - 1842
Kendra Strauss is an academic researcher from Simon Fraser University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pension & Social reproduction. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1560 citations. Previous affiliations of Kendra Strauss include University of Glasgow & University of Oxford.
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Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
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Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations: Exploring the ‘continuum of exploitation’ in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Kendra Strauss,Siobhán McGrath +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that conceptualizing forms of unfreedom along a continuum of labour relations highlights this interrelationship, which for migrant workers includes attempts to harness and control mobilities through immigration regimes that restrict mobility bargaining power within labour markets.
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Re-engaging with rationality in economic geography: behavioural approaches and the importance of context in decision-making
TL;DR: The authors argue for a renewed behavioural economic geography that builds on research in behavioural economics but also addresses one of its main shortcomings: a lack of engagement with the social context of decision-making.
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Labour geography 1: Towards a geography of precarity?
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between continued growth in the sub-field of labour geography, especially in research on migration, and the concept of precarity, and found that an increasingly domi...
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With, against and beyond Lefebvre: : Planetary urbanization and epistemic plurality
Michelle Buckley,Kendra Strauss +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss a number of recent efforts to critique, dismantle and problematize the categorical ontologies of the urban world and articulate an overarching epistemological framework for urban communities.