Keynote Speakers:

Katherine GIBSON (Australia)

Title of Speech:  After ‘the end of capitalism’: what’s next?

Katherine Gibson is Professor of Human Geography at the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. She has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Sydney, Australia and an MA and PhD from the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

She is an economic geographer engaged in rethinking economic concepts in the light of feminist and poststructuralist theory. Her research interests have been shared over three decades with Professor Julie Graham from the University of Massachusetts, USA, with whom she shares a collective authorial presence as J.K. Gibson-Graham. Together they have written The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell, 1996, Minnesota 2006) and A Postcapitalist Politics (Minnesota 2006) and co-edited with Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff Class and its Others (Minnesota 2000) and Re-presenting Class  (Duke 2001). She has directed large action research projects with communities in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. In 2008 she produced a 50 minute DVD on Building Social Enterprises in the Philippines: Strategies for Local Development. A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Gibson has been on the editorial boards  key Human Geography journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geoforum, Gender, Place and Culture, Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography, the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and New Zealand Geographer. She has supervised doctoral research projects in the sub-fields of urban geography, development geography, resource management, community development, political geography, feminist geography, tourism studies as well as economic geography.