{"id":39718,"date":"2025-06-06T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=39718"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:53","slug":"congratulations-to-kimberlee-nesbitt-on-her-recent-phd-proposal-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2025\/congratulations-to-kimberlee-nesbitt-on-her-recent-phd-proposal-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Kimberlee Nesbitt on her recent PhD proposal defense!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Kimberlee Nesbitt on her recent PhD proposal defense!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2-400x500.png\" alt=\"photo of Kim Nesbitt\" class=\"wp-image-39720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2-400x500.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2-160x200.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2-360x450.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Kim.Nesbitt.DSC03893_1080x1350_v2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Kimberlee Nesbitt on her recent PhD proposal defense! Dissertation Title: &#8220;\u201cFix [your] hearts or die!\u201d: The ethics of care and the question of reproductive security in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince Russia\u2019s invasion in 2014, the international security arena has struggled to account for the intimate, embodied consequences of war, particularly as it relates to experiences of social and embodied reproduction in Ukraine. My project addresses this notable silence by examining how reproductive care practices, decision-making, and relationships are being transformed under conditions of defensive war and prolonged occupation. Drawing on Sara Ruddick\u2019s concept of maternal thinking and the ethics of care, I argue that caregiving during conflict is not merely a practice of survival but a form of unique, situated knowledge \u2013 one capable of destabilizing dominant security and global health logics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through an extended feminist case study grounded in narrative ethnographic analysis, I engage Ukrainian wartime diaries and poetry to trace how reproductive actors \u2013 be they mothers, midwives, surrogates, or the other care networks in between \u2013 make sense of and respond to the fractures of war. These texts do more than document trauma; they serve as ethical encounters that reveal the affective labour, moral reasoning, and agency embedded in practices of care. Finally, my project situates these dynamics of care against the backdrop of Russian imperial aggression and Western neoliberal governance, wherein Ukraine\u2019s colonial in-betweenness further shapes the moral dilemmas of caregiving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim\u2019s project is co-supervised by Dr. Fiona Robinson and Dr. Brian C. Schmidt; Dr. Valerie Percival serves as third reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/kimberlee-nesbitt\/\">view bio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kimberlee Nesbitt on her recent PhD proposal defense! Dissertation Title: &#8220;\u201cFix [your] hearts or die!\u201d: The ethics of care and the question of reproductive security in Ukraine.&#8221; \u201cSince Russia\u2019s invasion in 2014, the international security arena has struggled to account for the intimate, embodied consequences of war, particularly as it relates to experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[102,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39722,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39718\/revisions\/39722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}