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Clare Walker

Clare's work examines the intersections of health, wellness, and the body with ongoing political discourses and transformations. Her current research project seeks to place the growth of alternative health/wellness movements in conversation with (post)feminist discourse, histories of medicine, and unravelling processes of gentrification. Using ethnographic methods, her work aims to complicate existing critical narratives of wellness culture. Clare's ongoing work with the Temporality of Loneliness (ToL) project posits new ways to understand urban transformation using participant observation and ethnographic interviewing with older adults in urban areas. Her research with ToL examines gentrification's aesthetics and consequential spatial exclusion of 'unwanted bodies' in Montreal and Paris, France.