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Karen Rebecca Foster

Observed names: Foster, Karen, Karen Foster, Karen R. Foster
ORCID: 0000-0003-4573-8212
Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-4573-8212
OpenAlex ID: A5076059550
Generation and discourse in working life stories
2013 · Karen Foster · British Journal of Sociology · 73
At risk of what? Possibilities over probabilities in the study of young lives
2010 · Karen Rebecca Foster, Dale Spencer · Journal of Youth Studies · 71
‘It's just a social thing’: Drug use, friendship and borderwork among marginalized young people
2013 · Karen Foster, Dale Spencer · International Journal of Drug Policy · 66
Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing of Climate Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021 · Mark C. J. Stoddart, Howard Ramos, et al. · Environmental Communication · 64
Work, narrative identity and social affiliation
2012 · Karen Foster · Work Employment and Society · 31
Generation, Discourse, and Social Change
2013 · Karen R. Foster · Routledge eBooks · 23
Investing in a better future: higher education and post-COVID Canada
2021 · Jennifer Brennan, Frank Deer, et al. · FACETS · 18
Productivity and Prosperity
2016 · Karen R. Foster · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 14
Urban Flight and Rural Rights in a Pandemic: Exploring Narratives of Place, Displacement, and “the Right to Be Rural” in the Context of COVID-19
2022 · S. Ashleigh Weeden, Jean Hardy, et al. · Annals of the American Association of Geographers · 12
Finding a Place in the World Understanding Youth Outmigration from Shrinking Rural Communities
2025 · Karen Foster, Hannah Main · Proceedings of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation · 11
Productivity And Prosperity A Historical Sociology Of Productivist Thought
2016 · Karen R. Foster · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 10
Reimagining intervention in young lives : work, social assistance, and marginalization
2012 · Karen Foster, Dale Spencer · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 10
What Are Contemporary Rural Development Policies? A Pan-Canadian Content Analysis of Government Strategies, Plans, and Programs for Rural Areas
2023 · Tamara Krawchenko, Brooke Hayes, et al. · Canadian Public Policy · 9
Work ethic and degrowth in a changing Atlantic Canada
2017 · Karen Foster · Journal of Political Ecology · 9
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Perceptions of local environment change and ecological habitus
2023 · Matthew Stackhouse, Howard Ramos, et al. · Environmental Sociology · 7
Disaffection rising? Generations and the personal consequences of paid work in contemporary Canada
2013 · Karen Rebecca Foster · Current Sociology · 6
Habitat Maintenance and Local Economic Ethics in Rural Atlantic Canada
2018 · Karen Foster · Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie · 4
Generation as a politics of representation
2016 · Karen Foster · International Journal of Work Innovation · 4
Finding mobility in place attachment research: lessons for managed retreat
2025 · Robin Willcocks-Musselman, Julia Baird, et al. · Frontiers in Climate · 3
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Productivism, Neoliberalism, and Responses to Regional Disparities in Canada: The Case of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
2019 · Karen Foster · Acadiensis · 3
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Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
2012 · Karen R. Foster, Dale C. Spencer · University of British Columbia Press eBooks · 3
The Right to Be Rural
2021 · Foster, Karen · University of Alberta Press eBooks · 2
Beating Broke by Getting Out? Examining the Relationship Between Personal Debt and Community-outmigration
2021 · Alyssa Gerhardt, Karen Foster · International Journal of Child Youth and Family Studies · 2
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1 Geographies of Citizenship, Equity, Opportunity, and Choice
2021 · Karen R. Foster, Jennifer Jarman · University of Alberta Press eBooks · 1
What’s different about rural families? How rurality shapes gender divisions and relations of care/work in families and communities in Canada
2026 · Karen Foster, Andrea Doucet, et al. · Gender Place & Culture
Works count: 41
Citation count: 457
H-index: 10
I10-index: 12
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