Department:
Geography & Environmental Studies
Research Interests:
Geographies of citizenship and identity, urban politics, cities and social justice, geographies of disability
My work explores issues of citizenship and identity within the Canadian space, particularly Canadan cities. I look at citizenship as an act of resistance and at identity as a process of becoming rather than as a set of fixed characteristics. My current research focuses on city residents’ resistance to urban neoliberal policies.
Current Courses:
GEO 793: Geography of Toronto
GEO 507: Explorations of the Urban Environment
CGEO 691: Canadian Immigration: Patterns and Place
Selected Publications & Presentations:
(2013) ‘Residents’ or ‘Taxpayers’? Neoliberalism, Rob Ford’s Mayoral Campaign and the Meaning of Urban Citizenship.Canadian Journal of Urban Research 22(2), 1-17.
(2012) Medical inadmissibility in Canadian immigration policy and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Left History 16(1), 91-113.
(2006) Women as individuals and members of minority groups: how to reconcile human rights and the values of cultural pluralism. GeoJournal 65(4), 329-337.
Faculty of Arts
