Kirsten McAllister

Professor

E: kmcallis@sfu.ca
Room: K9660

• S.S.H.R.C. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lancaster University, England
• Ph.D. (Sociology) Carleton University, Canada
• M.A. (Communication) Simon Fraser University, Canada
• B.A. (Geography) Simon Fraser University, Canada

Books

• McAllister, Kirsten (under contract with Palgrave-MacMillan) The Geography of Asylum: Art Activism and the City of Glasgow (300 pages).
• McAllister, Kirsten, Mona Oikawa and Roy Miki (eds.) (in progress) “After Redress: Indigenous and Japanese Canadian Cultural Politics”.
• McAllister, Kirsten, Daniel Ahadi and Ayaka Yoshimizu (eds.) (development stage) “Migration and Communication Studies: Questions of Fieldwork, Cultural Politics and Voice” (tentative title).
• McAllister, Kirsten (2010) Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project: University of British Columbia Press.
• Kuhn, Annette and Kirsten McAllister (eds) (2006) Locating Memory: Photographic Acts. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.

A Selection of Articles, Book Chapters and Creative Essays

• Hirji, Faiza, Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten McAllister (in press) “On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite in Canada”, Communication, Culture and Critique, Special Issue, “#CommunicationSoWhite”, Eve Ng, Khadijah Costley White and Anamik Saha, (eds.), 14 pages
  
• McAllister, Kirsten (2019) “Transpacific Worlds: Spirit, Progress, Annihilation” in Makiko Hara and Cindy Mochizuki (eds.) K is for Kayashima, Artspeak, pp. 15-26
• McAllister, Kirsten (2018) “Family Photography and Persecuted Communities: Methodological Challenges”, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, 55:2, Special Issue, “Visual Sociologies/Visual methodologies”, Andrea Doucet (ed.), pp. 166-185.
• McAllister, Kirsten (2017) “Science, Race and the Alchemy of Love in Postwar British Columbia”, BC Studies 195, pp. 109-112.
• McAllister, Kirsten (2015) “Extraterritorial Spaces of Exclusion: Art, Asylum Seekers and Spatial Practices in the City of Glasgow” Visual Studies, 30:3, pp. 244–263.
• McAllister, Kirsten (2013) “Du témoignage oculaire au témoignage comme acte: La photographie, les demandeurs d’asile et l’exposition ‘Life After Iraq’”/ “From Eyewitness to Bearing Witness: Photography, Asylum Seekers and ‘Life After Iraq’” in Suzanne Paquet (ed.) Errances photographiques: Mobilités et Intermédialité, Les Presse de L’ Université de Montréal, pp. 101-140.
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko (2011) “Memoryscapes of Postwar British Columbia: A Look of Recognition”, in Cultivating Canada: Cultivating Canada Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Volume III, Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagné (eds.), Ottawa. Aboriginal Healing Foundation, pp. 419-444.
• McAllister, Kirsten (2011) “Asylum in the Home Territories: Crossing the Zones of Desire”, Space and Culture 14:2, pp. 165-182.
• McAllister, Kirsten (ed.) (2011) Special Issue: Transnational Publics: Asylum and the Arts In Glasgow, West Coast Line 68
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko (2010) “Archival Memories” in James Opp and John Walsh (eds.) Remembering Place, Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 214-246.
• McAllister, Kirsten and Roy Miki (2008) “‘Always Slippage’: an Interview on a Collage/Poem in Process”, West Coast Line, 57, Special Issue, “Roy Miki”, Fred Wah (ed.), pp. 149-160.

• McAllister, Kirsten. Co-organized a roundtable on Migration, the Politics of Fieldwork and Questioning Communication Studies with Daniel Ahadi (SFU) and Ayaka Yoshimizu. The roundtable is part of a book project on migration and communication studies and fieldwork methodologies.
• McAllister, Kirsten, Canadian Communication Association conference. Co-organized three panels on the theme of #CommunicationSoWhite: Canadian Style with Yasmin Jiwani (Concordia) and Faiza Hirji (McMaster) with BIPOC colleagues across Canada. Conference. The panel papers are the basis for a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication. June 2021.
  
• McAllister, Kirsten. Presented on a panel for the nation-wide Scholarstrike Canada’s “Anti-Asian Racism Undone” 2-day symposium. Conference. May 2021.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Western Photojournalism, Refugees: A Critique of Empathy and Hyperrealism”, Invited Paper, “A Roundtable on Transcultural Solidarities across Global Divides: Histories, Institutions and Agencies”, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China October 2019.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Memoryscapes and the Politics of Remembering Across Borders of Time and Territory”, Invited Lecture for Brandon Shimoda’s Artist Residency at the Bruna Archives, Bellingham, USA, August 4, 2019.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Writing Against the Structures of Whiteness in Communication Studies: the Silencing of Racialized Subjectivities in the Disciplinary Space of Academic Texts” #CommunicationsoWhite Preconference (co-organized the panel with Yasmin Jiwani and Faiza Hirji) International Association of Communication, Washington, D.C., USA, May 24, 2019.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Transpacific Memories of Post-war Yokohama: the Japanese Canadian Experimental Art of Cindy Mochizuki”, Invited Lecture, School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, April 2016.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “From National To Transpacific Memoryscape: The Experimental Art of Jin-me Yoon”, Invited Lecture for The Research Unit on Public Culture, University of Melbourne, March 16, 2016.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Moving Beyond the Extraterritorial Spaces of WWII Internment Camps: Searching the Archive for Trans-pacific Voices of Longing and Belonging”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Surabaya, Indonesia, August 2015.

• Social Science and Humanities Research Insight Grant, “Transpacific Memories: Moving from the Trauma of Canada’s National Past to the Transnational Present, 2013-2016.
• National Association of Japanese Canadians, Winnipeg, Funding for “Tracing the Lines: Tracing the Lines: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Miki”, 2008.
• Social Science and Humanities Research Standard Grant, “Public Discourses of Fear and Containment: Refugees in Canada and Scotland”, 2006-2010.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, “Re-presentations of Everyday Life in Internment Camps:  Hostile Environments or Familiar Landscapes?”, 2000-2002.

• Visual Studies 
• Cultural Memory
• Political violence and Racism
• Photography, memorials, community-based art, contemporary art
• Community-based research, ethnographic fieldwork, visual analysis
• Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Diaspora and Migration
  
• Settler-Indigenous Relations
• Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian Cultural Politics