EV1-312,
ext.
45783
daniel.cockayne@uwaterloo.ca
Daniel is a feminist economic geographer who is interested in workplace culture, with a particular focus on startup economies and entrepreneurship. He also examines digital media, equity finance, entrepreneurship, gender and sexuality, and emotions and affect in the workplace.
Courses
Offered
Fall
terms:
GEOG100
-
On
Becoming
a
Geography
GEOG302
-
Geography
of
Work
and
Employment
(Co-taught
with
Dr.
Nancy
Worth,
GEM)
Spring terms:
GEOG202
-
Geography
of
the
Global
Economy
(Also
offered
in
Winter
terms)
GEOG411
-
The
Digital
Economy
Key
Areas
of
Graduate
Supervision
Cultural
geography,
critical
human
geography,
economic
geography,
entrepreneurialism
and
startup
economies,
feminist
geography,
queer
geography
and
sexuality.
Daniel is currently seeking graduate students for supervision at the MA and PhD level. Please contact him by email with a CV and writing sample if you are interested.
Research
Interests
Daniel
focusses
his
empirical
research
on
working
culture,
anti-work
politics,
and
neoliberalism,
taking
up
feminist
and
cultural
lenses
in
economic
geography
to
approach
these
themes.
His
current
research,
building
on
doctoral
work
in
San
Francisco
and
Silicon
Valley
with
entrepreneurs
and
others
working
for
startup
firms,
examines
entrepreneurship
and
education
in
the
Waterloo-Kitchener
context.
He is currently developing a research agenda around the relationship between sexuality and work, that could include investigations into the relationship between labor movements and LGBTQ activism, the political economy of pride protests, and the often popular and liberal uptake of diversity and inclusion programmes in businesses across North America.
Theoretically, Daniel’s research is influenced by social theory, including feminist theory, Marx’s writing, political theory, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and queer and affect theory. In particular his theoretical research has focused on the early writing of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, prior to (though without ignoring) his later collaborations with Félix Guattari. Additionally, Daniel also investigates the relationship between queer theory and software studies, and is engaged in feminist critiques of knowledge production in geography particularly through the practice of academic citation conceptualized as a method for reproducing academic authority in the discipline.
Recent Publications
Feminist Economic Geographies of Startup Culture and Entrepreneurship
- Underpeformative economies: discrimination and gendered ideas of culture in San Francisco’s digital media sector. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (2018) 50.4: 756-772.
- ‘Sharing’ as neoliberal strategy: the economic function and discursive practice of sharing in the digital ‘on demand’ economy. Geoforum (2016) 77: 73-82.
- Locating affect, exploitation, and value in critical examinations of digital prosumption and big data. Big Data & Society (2016) 3.2: 1-11.
- Entrepreneurial affect: attachment to work practice in San Francisco’s digital media sector. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2016) 34.3: 456-473.
Digital Geographies and Social Difference
- The queer times of internet infrastructures and digital systems. In: Catherine Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray (eds) The Geographies of Digital Sexuality (2019). London: Palgrave Macmillan, with Lizzie Richardson
- What is queer about internet studies now? First Monday (2018) 23.7, with Jack Gieseking and Jessa Lingel.
- #HotsForBots: intimacy, sex, and the non-human in digital spaces of encounter. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2017) 35.6: 1115-1133, with Agnieszka Leszczynski and Matthew Zook.
- Queering code/space: the co-production of socio-sexual codes and digital technologies. Gender, Place & Culture (2017) 24.11: 1642-1658, with Lizzie Richardson.
Deleuze, Difference, and Space
- Thinking space differently: Deleuze’s Möbius topology for a theorization of the encounter. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2019) doi: 10.1111/tran.12311, with Derek Ruez and Anna Secor.
- Between ontology and representation: locating Gilles Deleuze’s ‘difference-in-itself’ in and for geographical thought. Progress in Human Geography (2017) 41.5: 580-599, with Derek Ruez and Anna Secor.
Feminist Geographic Critiques of Knowledge Production and Academic Authority
- On “movers” to business and management schools: A response from outside “the project.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (2018) 50.7: 1510-1518, with Amy Horton, Kelly Kay, Jessa Loomis, and Emily Rosenman.
- Conscientious disengagement and the limits of dialogue. Dialogues in Human Geography (2018) 8.2: 143-147, with Carrie Mott.
- Citation matters: mobilizing the politics of citation toward a practice of ‘conscientious engagement’. Gender, Place & Culture (2017) 24.7: 954-973, with Carrie Mott.