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Robert MacArthur Shields

Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Chair and Professor Sociology City-Region Studies Centre Faculty of Extension University of Alberta 2-185 20130 Jasper Ave Edmonton Alberta CanadaTel +1 7802430489 rshieldsualbertaca wwwualbertaca~rshields wwwspaceandculturecom

1 Education

1989-90 Postdoctoral Fellow Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada at University of Lancaster with Scott Lash and John Urry and at Centre drsquoEtudes sur lrsquoActuel et le Quotidien Universiteacute de Paris V Sorbonne with Prof Michel Maffesoli Audited seminars with Jean Baudrillard and a seminar given jointly by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein

1989 DPhil Urban and Regional Studies University of Sussex Brighton UK Commonwealth Scholar Thesis with Peter Saunders Supervisor Derek Gregory External Examiner Audited philosophy courses with Gillian Rose

1986 MA Sociology Carleton University Ottawa Thesis with Charles Gordon and John HarpNotes Toward a Theory of Social Spatializations Henri Lefebvre the Problem of Space and the Postmodern Hypothesis 10 October 1985 Including International Summer Institute in Semiotic and Structural Studies University of Toronto May-June 1984 Completed credit course with Frederick Jameson Audited course with Paul Ricoeur

1984 BA Interdisciplinary Studies (Architecture and Northern Development Planning) Carleton University Ottawa

2 Employment

a) Academic employmentJuly 2004ndash Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton Canada

-April 2016- Academic Director City-Region Studies Centre and Centre for Public Involvement Faculty of Extension (see Section 4 below)-July 2009-June 2014 Director City-Region Studies Centre Faculty of Extension (see Section 4below) Joint Appointment to Faculty of Extension and Faculty of Arts January 2011ndash-July 2009- Jan 2011 Director Intermedia Research Centre Dept of Sociology (see Section 4 below)

March 2014-Aug 2014 City of Vienna Visiting Professor SKuOR Arbeitsbereich fuumlr Stadtkultur und oumlffentlicher Raum TU Wien Technische Universitat Wien Vienna Austria

July 2013-2014 Sabbatical Researcher Centre dEtudes sur lActuel et le Quotidien Universiteacute de Paris V La Sorbonne Paris France

-July 1991-2004 Professor Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University Ottawa Early Promotion to Full Professor July 2000 July 1994-July 2000 Associate Professor Tenure July 1995 July 1991- July 1994 Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)-1998-99 Acting Director Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies Carleton University (Sabbatical Replacement 1998-1999) Head of Department Director Directed Interdisciplinary Studies BA Programme Administrative responsibility for Cognitive Science PhD

RShields January 2018 1

July 1995-July 1997 Lecturer Culture and Communication University of Lancaster Lancaster UK (Leave of Absence from Carleton University Sept 1995-Sept 1997) Recommended for promotion to Reader (May 1997)

Jan 1990-May 1990 Postdoctoral Researcher Centre dEtudes sur lActuel et le Quotidien Universiteacute de Paris V La Sorbonne Paris France Part-time Sessional Lecturer Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University (1990-1991)

Oct 1989-Dec 1989 Part-time Tutor Cultural Studies MA and Sociology Part I University of Lancaster Lancaster UK 1989

Jan 1989-May 1989 Part-time Sessional Lecturer Sociology Trent University

Oct 1987-June 1988 Part-time Lecturer GCSE Geography Brighton College of Technology Brighton UK

b) Other EmploymentSummer 1984 Draughtsman Energy Building Group Ottawa

Summer 1983 Assistant Policy Analyst Nepean Development Consultants Ottawa

Summers 1981-82 Architectural Draughtsman Murray Murray Griffiths Rankin Architects andTown Planners Ottawa

Summers 1979-1980 Art Instructor Boy Scouts of Canada Camp Opemikon Perth Ontario

1978-85 Piano teacher (Self employed part-time)

c) Community Outreach Voluntary Service

2016- Academic Director Faculty of Extension PLACES Platform on Cities Engagement and Spaces including City Region Studies Centre and Centre for Public Involvement a legal partnership between City of Edmonton and University of Alberta

2009-13 Notable outreach as Director of City-Region Studies Centre -Strip-Appealcom International Design Competition to reimagine the strip mall (October-Jan 2011-12)

-Unwrap-the- Researchca Community-academic conference in Fort McMurray (Alberta Oil Sands Oct 22-24 2010) -Reshaping our Region Symposium for planners and elected officials (Edmonton June 25 2011) Curb planning Magazine founder (3 issues annually) -Edmonton on the Edge Alley of Light downtown revitalization-Regional Planning Speakers Series videocast interviews

2011-13 Board Member Youth Centres Canada Centres Jeunesse Canada National organization of street youth centres

2008 Organizer iHuman Youth Centre session by visiting HM Tory Chair Visiting Speakers UK artists lsquoProboscisrsquo Edmonton

2006- Founding Board Member City Region Studies Centre University of Alberta Faculty of ExtensionEdmonton Alberta Active in outreach to corporate and community partners research program


2007 Organizer with MADE (Media Art and Design in Edmonton) public lecture at Art Gallery of Alberta HM Tory Chair Visiting Speaker Dr Tom Gieryn

2004 Informal mini-courses on urban design approaches for individual Edmonton City Councillors

1998-2003 Volunteer Member Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Surveys of Innovation in the Canadian Construction Industry Science Technology and Electronic Information Division Statistics Canada and National Research Council of Canada Institute for Research on Construction

1992-95 Volunteer TYPS (Town Youth Participation Strategies) Youth Group Spencerville Ontario

1983-86 Co-founder Vice President Program INPAX International Youth Year Conference (1984-85) Pax Humana Group registered charity Ottawa Ontario

3 Professional Honours and Visiting Positions

2017 Minister of Municipal Affairs Alberta Award for Partnership in Planning with City of Leduc AB

2016 Honorary Visiting Professor Institute of Cultural Studies Capital Normal University Beijing

2014 City of Vienna Visiting Professor SKuOR A rbeitsbereich fuumlr Stadtkultur und oumlffentlicher Raum TUWien Vienna Technical University Faculty of Architecture and Planning Vienna Austria

2010 Top 25 Website Award-Sociology category for Space and Culture ww w spaceandcultureo r g

2009 Academic Staff Award (for Graduate Student Supervision) Graduate Students Association University ofAlberta Edmonton Canada

July 2004- Adjunct Research Professor Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University Ottawa Canada Renewed 2007 2010

2004 Henry Marshall Tory Chair University of Alberta Indefinite with annual research fund Open competition across all fields at the University

2004 lsquoLeader of the Future Awardrsquo Partnership Group in Science and Engineering Ottawa

2002 Visiting Professor Centre for Urban and Regional Studies Helsinki University of Technology Finland Funded by Nokia Sept-Dec

1999 Visiting Professorship Dept of Sociology International Summer School University of Lapland Rovaniemi Finland June

1999 Visiting Professorship Dept of Geography Summer School University of Oulu Oulu Finland July

1998 Honorary Visiting Scholar Dept of Sociology University of Lancaster Lancaster UK

1996 Visiting Professorship School of Architecture Aarhus Denmark

1996 Visiting Professorship Finnish Cultural Studies Network Advanced School University of Joensuu Joensuu Finland


1995 Visiting Professorship in Social Organization Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark Nov

1994 University Visiting Professorship Dept of Human Geography University of Oslo Norway Oct

1991 Visiting Faculty Critic Banff Centre for the Arts Walter Phillips Gallery Banff Alberta June

1990 Outstanding Publication of the Year Award Places on the Margin Awarded by Library Choice

Sept 1988-July 1989 Visiting Scholar Urban and Regional Planning School of Policy Studies Queens University Kingston Canada

1985-88 Commonwealth Scholarship University of Sussex Brighton UK

4 Selected Administrative Responsibilities

a) UniversityFund raised and capitalized Centre for Public Involvement City of Edmonton Partnership Agreement with Faculty of Extension ($150000 per annum 2 years renewable) 2016 $300000

Member Master of Arts in Communication and Technology (MACT) Admissions Committee Faculty of Extension University of Alberta 2005-

Elected Member Facilities Development Committee of General Faculty Council University of Alberta (responsible for all new environmental standards design and construction on Universitys campuses) 2007-10 2014ndash17

Member University of Alberta Workshop on CIRCE Canada-India Research Centre of Excellence Letter of Intent Jan 2012

Member Committee on the Learning Environment of General Faculty Council University of Alberta (responsible for teaching and all aspects of pedagogy) 2009-10

Founding Member Ad hoc committee to create a City Region Studies Centre University of Alberta Faculty of Extension (see also Outreach to Community above) 2006

Faculty of Arts Representative to Faculty of Extension Faculty Council 2005-09 University Committee on Culture and the Arts Carleton University 1993-95

b) FacultyFaculty Evaluation Committee Faculty of Extension University of Alberta 2011 and 2012

Academic Director Centre for Public Involvement Faculty of Extension University of Alberta Apr 2016-Mar 2017 Responsible for negotiating a partnership between the University and City of Edmonton to establish an affiliated centre

Director City-Region Studies Centre Faculty of Extension University of Alberta (Responsible for all aspects of redirection restructuring and redevelopment of finance funding applications personnel research and publication Designed positions recruited and managing 3 professional staff and up to 13 staff with a budget of approximately $700K including project funding approximately $230K) 2009-


Member Graduate Program Committee MA in Engaged Scholarship Proposal 2011-15

Member Deans Advisory Committee on Space in the Faculty of Arts University of Alberta 2004-05 BA (Hons) in Information Culture and Society Planning Committee Carleton University 2000-02 Acting Director Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies Carleton University 1998-99 (Sabbatical Replacement)

BA Council Carleton University 1998-99

Directed Interdisciplinary Studies Committee Carleton University 1991-2003

c) DepartmentalMember Graduate Programs and Policy Committee Dept of Sociology 2005-6 2014-16

Director Intermedia Research Studio Faculty of Arts University of Alberta (Responsible for research and intellectual direction budget research assistant supervision development) 2009-11

Member Management Committee Intermedia Research Studio Dept of Sociology 2005-08

Member Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee Dept of Sociology 2004-5 Director Innovation Research Unit Carleton University 1997-2004

Program Co-Director Cultural Research PhD with Greg Myers Culture and Communication Lancaster University UK 1996-97 Successfully proposed and developed a PhD in Cultural Research (with Greg Myers) Culture and Communication Lancaster University 1995-97

Director Design Space and Society Research Unit Lancaster University 1996-97 Successful consultancy and contract research unit

Co-Director Centre for Research on Culture and Society Carleton University (with Valda Blundell and Geraldine Finn) 1992-95

5 Publications

a) Books Peer Refereed MonographsSpatial Questions Social Spatialisations and Cultural Topologies London Sage 2013 197pp Mandarin translation 空间问题 Phoenix Educational Publishers Nanjing 2017

The Virtual London Routledge 2003 272pp

Lefebvre Love and Struggle Spatial Dialectics London Routledge 1999 218ppTranslated into Greek

Places on the Margin Alternative Geographies of Modernity International Library of Sociology London Routledge Chapman Hall 1991 334 ppLibrary Choice Outstanding Publication of the Year Award

b) Edited Books Peer RefereedCity-Regions in Prospect Place meets Practice Co-Editor with Kevin Jones and Alex Lord McGill-Queens University Press 2015

Re-reading Jean-Franccedilois Lyotard Essays on his later works Co-Editor with Heidi Bickis London Ashgate 2013


Demystifying Deleuze An Introductory assemblage of crucial concepts Co-Editor with Michael Vallee Ottawa Red Quill Books 2013

Ecologies of Affect Placing Nostalgia Desire and Hope Co-Editor with Tonya Davidson and Ondine Park Waterloo Wilfred Laurier University Press 2011 Aid to Scholarly Publication Grant

What is a City Rethinking the Urban After Katrina Co-Editor with Philip Steinberg Athens Georgia University Press 2008 233pp

Building Tomorrow Innovation in Engineering and Construction Co-Editor with Andreacute Manseau London Ashgate 2005 184pp

Cultures of Internet London Sage 1996 196ppTranslated into Serbo-Croatian as Kulture Interneta Zagreb Naklada Jesefnski I Turk Hrvatscko socioloko drutvo 2001

Social Engineering The Technics of Change Co-Editor with Adam Podgorecki and Jon Alexander Ottawa CarletonUniversity Press 1996 359ppAid to Scholarly Publication Grant

Life Style Shopping The Subject of Consumption International Library of Sociology London Routledge 1993 239 ppExcerpts translated into Russian and German

c) Chapters in Edited Books Peer RefereedlsquoUrban Agriculture Food as Production of Spacersquo with M Granzow ME Leary-Owhin and JP McCarthy (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre the City and Urban Society London Routledge Accepted Forthcoming 2018

lsquoImprovising Everyday Spaces of Urban Emancipationrsquo S Knierbein T Viderman (eds) Designing Public Spaces of Emancipation London Routledge Accepted Forthcoming 2017

lsquoEdmonton Amiskwaciy Suburbs for Settlersrsquo with D Gillespie and K Moran North American Suburbs J Nijman (ed) Toronto University of Toronto Press Accepted Forthcoming 2018

lsquoKnowing Spacersquo Space Critical Concepts in Geography P Merriman (ed) New York Routledge 2016

lsquoGoverning Emergent Technologies Nanopower and Nano-Politics An Ethnographic Approachrsquo Ethnographies of Neoliberalism M Brady (ed) Toronto University of Toronto Press 2016 pp105-130

lsquoRe-spatializing the City as the City-Regionrsquo City-Regions in Prospect Place meets Practice Co-Editor with Kevin Jones and Alex Lord McGill- Queens University Press 2015 pp53-72

lsquoForewordrsquo Contesting the Arctic P Steinberg et al (eds) London IB Tauris 2015 ppix-xiv

lsquoThe Aesthetics of the Territory Nation State the Canadian Problematiquersquo Negotiations in a Vacant Lot E Morton et al (eds) Montreal McGill-Queens University Press 2014 pp188-200

lsquoThe Virtuality of Urban Culture Blanks Dark Moments and Blind Fieldsrsquo Cartographies of Place M Darroch and J Marchessault (eds) Montreal McGill-Queens University Press (Revised and updated version) 2013 pp67-84

lsquoSuburban Boundariesrsquo with Roger Keil Suburban Constellations R Keil (ed) Berlin Jovis 2013 pp69-76


lsquoOblique Views and Heterodox Spaces Corbusierrsquos Conventusrsquo Re-Reading Jean-Franccedilois Lyotard H Bickis and R Shields (eds) London Ashgate 2013 pp107-118

lsquoLine Line of Flightrsquo R Shields and M Vallee (eds) Demystifying Deleuze Ottawa Red Quill Books 2013 pp99-101

lsquoKnowing Flows How Migration Research meets Mobilities through Digital Technologyrsquo Paola Jiron Ole B Jensen Lucy Budd Christian Fisker Phillip Vanini (eds) Technologies of Mobility in the Americas New York Peter Lang 2012 pp43-58

lsquoThe New Place of Flowsrsquo Rodrigo Firmino Dr Fabio Duarte and Dr Clovis Ultramari (eds) ICTS A New UrbanInfrastructure Surveillance locative media and global networks Pittsburgh IGI Global 2011 ppxiii-xvi

lsquoIntroductionrsquo with T Davidson and O Park T Davidson and O Park R Shields (eds) Ecologies of Affect Waterloo ON Wilfred Laurier University Press 2011 pp1-18

lsquoThe Tourist Affectrsquo T Davidson and O Park R Shields (eds) Ecologies of Affect Waterloo ON Wilfred LaurierUniversity Press 2011 pp105-126

lsquoHenri Lefebvrersquo Phil Hubbard Rob Kitchin and Gill Valentine (eds) Key Thinkers on Space and Place 2nd ed London Sage 2010 pp208-213

lsquoInterview with Rob Shieldsrsquo with Ignacio Farias and Thomas Bender (eds) Urban Assemblages How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies London Routledge 2009 pp291-301

lsquoTrue North Strong and Freersquo Sourayan Mookerjea Imre Szeman and Fail Faurschou (eds)Canadian Cultural Studies A Reader Durham NC Duke University Press 2009 pp276-288

lsquoDelta City P Steinberg and R Shields (eds) What is a City Rethinking the Urban After Katrina Athens Georgia University Press 2008 pp78-93

Uharingndgribeligheder og Virtualiteterrsquo (lsquoIntangibles and Virtualitiesrsquo) A Scott Sorensen and Zerland M (eds) Kulture uden Centre Aarhus Denmark Klim 2006 pp226-48

Introduction with Andreacute Manseau A Manseau and R Shields (eds) Building Tomorrow Innovation in Engineering and Construction London Ashgate 2005 pp1-4

lsquoA Survey of the Construction Innovation Literaturersquo A Manseau and R Shields (eds) Building Tomorrow Innovation in Engineering and Construction London Ashgate 2005 pp5-22

lsquoSkills and Occupational Culturesrsquo A Manseau and R Shields (eds) Building Tomorrow Innovation in Engineering and Construction London Ashgate 2005 pp157-174

lsquoCyberurbe Virtuality in Salvadorrsquo A Lemos (ed) Ciberurbe A cidade na sociedade da informaccedilatildeo Cibercidade II Rio de Janeiro E-Papers 2005 pp35-42

lsquoThe Virtuality of Urban Culture Blanks Dark Moments and Blind Fieldsrsquo H Berking and Martina Loumlw (issue eds and dirs) Soziale Welte Die Wirklichkeit der Stadte Vol 16 Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgessellschaft 2005 pp377-386


lsquoSurfing Global space or dwelling in the wavesrsquo M Sheller and J Urry (eds) Tourism Mobilities Places at Play Places in Play London Routledge 2004 pp44-52

lsquoShelterrsquo with Charles Gordon in S Pile and N Thrift (eds) Patterned Ground London Reaktion 2004 pp166-7

lsquoGlobalization Entangled Places Interface Buildings Generic Designrsquo R Cole and R Lorch (eds) Buildings Cultureand Environment Informing Local and Global Practices New York Blackwell 2003 pp18-36

lsquoPolitical Tourism Mapping Memory and the Future at Quebec City in M Hannah and V Del Casino (eds) Mapping Tourism Minneapolis Minnesota University Press 2003 pp1-27

lsquoInformation and Knowledge Economies Work and Management in the Canadian Federal Public Servicersquo with Dan OrsquoConnor Suzan Ilcan Edwina Taborsky in Kecheng Liu et al (eds) Organizational Semiotics An Evolving Science of Information Systems Dordrecht Netherlands Kluwer 2003 pp21-40

lsquoThe Impact of a Knowledge-Based Economy on Work in the Public Service The ldquoVirtual Organizationrdquo of Expertise and Knowledgersquo with Suzan Ilcan Daniel OrsquoConnor Edwina Taborsky in Masao Nakamura (ed) Alliances Cooperative Ventures and the Role of Government in the Knowledge Based Economy Policy Issues for Canada and Beyond Vancouver BC The Centre for Japanese Research University of British Columbia 2002 pp143-180

lsquoVinylrsquo S Pile and N Thrift (eds) City A-Z London Routledge 2000 pp279-80

lsquoHypertext Links The Index and its Space-Time Effectsrsquo A Herman and T Swiss (eds) The World Wide Web Metaphor Magic and Power New York Routledge 2000 pp144-160

lsquoCyberspace A Space of Assemblage or a Space of Public Assemblyrsquo A Herman and T Swiss (eds) UnSpun New York New York University Press 2000 pp66-72

lsquoThe Bowtie - A Tale of Three Louisrsquo A Brydon S Niesen (eds) Consuming Fashion Adorning the Transnational Body New York Berg 1998 pp163-176

lsquoCyberpunk Cinderella Contextual Illness and Subjectivationrsquo C Juul (ed) The Meeting of the Waters IndividualityCommunity and Solidarity Aalborg Aalborg University Press 1997 pp75-94

lsquoFeel Good Here Rethinking Simple Urban Pleasures in Terms of the Bodyrsquo J Caulfield and L Peake (eds) Citiesand Citizens Toronto University of Toronto Press 1997 pp82-97

lsquoIs Foucaults Micro-technics a Sociotechnicsrsquo Jon Alexander Adam Podgoacuterecki and Rob Shields (eds) Social Engineering Ottawa Carleton University Press 1996 pp295-315

lsquoRethinking Representationrsquo Anthony King (ed) Representing the City London Macmillan 1996 pp237-252

lsquoVirtual Spaces Real Histories Living Bodiesrsquo Chapter 1 in R Shields (ed) Cultures of Internet London Sage 1996pp1-10

lsquoIs There a Body in the Netrsquo with K Argyle R Shields (ed) Cultures of Internet Sage London

lsquoContested Terrains Social Space and the Canadian Environmentrsquo With I Wallace W Clement (ed) Understanding Canada Montreal McGill-Queens University Press 1996 pp386-408


lsquoImages of Space and Place Reflections on Social Spatialisationrsquo GB Benko and U Strohmayer (eds) Space and Social Theory Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity Oxford Basil Blackwell 1996 pp186-202

lsquoPostscript Revisiting the Mall after Ten Yearsrsquo D Crowe (ed) Geography and Identity Exploring and Living the Geopolitics of Identity Washington Institute for Advanced Urban Studies Maisonneuve Publishers 1996 pp356-61

lsquoTribes or Massesrsquo Foreword to M Maffesoli The Time of the Tribes D Smith trans London Sage 1995 ppix-xiii

lsquoFancy Footwork Walter Benjamins Notes on Flacircneriersquo K Tester (ed) The Flacircneur London Routledge 1995 pp61-80

lsquoThe Logic of the Mallrsquo S Riggins (ed) The Socialness of Things Den Hague Mouton de Gruyter 1994 pp202-219

Social Science and Postmodern Spatialisations Jamesons Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping Chapter 2 in Elspeth Graham Joe Doherty and Mo Malek (eds) Postmodernism and the Social Sciences London Macmillan 1993 pp39-57

lsquoSpaces for the Subject of Consumptionrsquo Chapter 1 in R Shields (ed) Lifestyle Shopping London Routledge 1992 pp1-20

lsquoThe Individual Consumption Cultures and the Fate of Communityrsquo Chapter 5 in R Shields (ed)Lifestyle Shopping London Routledge 1992 pp99-113

d) Articles in Refereed JournalslsquoLifelong sorrow settler affect state and trauma at Anne of Green Gablesrsquo Settler Colonial Studies 2017 pp1ndash19 httpsdoiorg1010802201473X20171388467

lsquoBare Naturersquo Space and Culture Accepted forthcoming

lsquoUrban Virtues and the Innovative City ndash An experiment in placing innovation in Edmonton Canadarsquo with K Jones and M Granzow Urban Studies Online First httpjournalssagepubcomdoifull1011770042098017719191 Accessed July 5 12017

lsquoExpanding the Borders of The Sociological Imagination Spatial difference and social inequalityrsquo Current Sociology 654 2017 pp533-52

lsquoMashup New Representations of the Cityrsquo with A Lozowy Theory Culture and Society Urban Problematic II Online Supplement 317-8 2015 httptheoryculturesocietyorgmashup-new-representations-of-the-city

Ville et universiteacutes Espaces et Socieacuteteacutes LrsquoUniversiteacute retour en ville 159 2014 pp167-171

Lefebvre and the Right to the Open City Space and Culture 173 2014 pp1-4

lsquoWhere is Fort McMurray The Camera as a Tool for Assembling ldquoCommunityrsquorsquo with A Lozowy S Dorow Canadian Journal of Sociology 382 2013 pp191-209 httpejournalslibraryualbertacaindexphpCJSissueview1380

lsquoCultural Topology The Seven Bridges of Koumlnigsburg 1736rsquo Theory Culture and Society 2945 2012 pp43-57


lsquoFeral suburbs Cultural topologies of social reproduction Fort McMurray Canadarsquo International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 153 (May) 2012 pp205-215

lsquoUrban Trauma Comment on Karen Tills lsquoWounded Citiesldquo Political Geography 31 2012 pp15-16

lsquoThe Virtual North On the Boundaries of Sovereigntyrsquo with Barret Weber Ethnic and Racial Studies 341 2011 pp103-120

lsquoSocial Spatialisation and Cultural Topologyrsquo lsquo社会空间化与文化拓拓扑学rsquo Studies in Culture and Art International Cultural Studies China (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Zhang Dao-Jian (trans) 33 (May 2010) Online in Mandarin httpwwwliteratureorgcnArticleaspxID=52365 httpwwwdocincomp-152929119html and in English httpculturestudycoms384bome2010072446html

lsquoContested Sovereignty in a Changing Arcticrsquo with Gerhardt Hannes et al Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1004 2010 pp992-1002

with Marilei Fiorelli and Andre Lemos lsquoSur-viv-all Locative Artrsquo Wi Journal of Mobile Media (Spring) 2009 wihexagramcap=47

lsquoAbject Citizenship ndash Rethinking Exclusion and Inclusion Participation Criminality and Community at a Small Town Youth Centrersquo with Andrea Sharkey Childrensrsquo Geographies 63 2008 pp239-256

lsquoThe Urban Question as Cargo Cult Opportunities for a New Urban Pedagogyrsquo International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 323 2008 pp712-718

lsquoHope and Fear in Biotechnology The Space-Times of Regulatory Affectrsquo Space and Culture 102 Summer 2008 pp125-141

lsquoO que e que a olhadela comunicarsquo Contemporanea 51-2 2008 In Portuguese wwwcontemporaneaposcomufbabrhtmls_ingv5_1_2_dez07html pp1-12

lsquoLes Sciences Sociales et les Virtualiteacutesrsquo Socieacuteteacutes 91 (Spring 20061) 2006 pp55-67 In French

lsquoFlacircnerie for Cyborgsrsquo Theory Culture and Society 237-8 2006 pp209-220

lsquoBiotech Barbeque A Regulatory Figuration and Policy Makingrsquo Fast Capitalism 21 Online journal wwwutaeduhumaaggerfastcapitalism2_1shieldshtml Summer 2006

lsquoKnowing Spacersquo Theory Culture and Society 232-3 2006 pp146-49

lsquoVirtualitiesrsquo Theory Culture and Society 232-3 2006 pp284-86

lsquoBoundary-Thinking in Theories of the Present The Virtuality of Reflexive Modernizationrsquo European Journal of Social Theory 92 2006 pp223-238

lsquoBuilding the Future Innovation Design and the Virtualrsquo Nordisk Arkitekturforskning ndash Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 184 2005 pp13-20

lsquoIntersections in Cultural Policy Geographical Socioeconomic and Other Markers of Identityrsquo Canadian Ethnic Studies Special Issue on Intersections of Diversity 353 2004 pp150-164


lsquoVisualicityrsquo Visual Culture in Britain 51 2004 pp23-36

lsquoInnovation in Clean Room Construction A Case Study of Co-operation between Firmsrsquo With Kevin West Construction Management and Economics 213 (June) 2003 pp327-334

lsquoThe Role of the Virtual in Knowledge-based Economies Organizations and Localitiesrsquo SEED Journal Semiotics Evolution Energy and Development 2003 wwwlibraryutorontocaseeSEEDVol2-4shieldspdf

lsquoGeopolitical Spatialisationsrsquo Geopolitics 81 (Spring) 2003 pp203-210

lsquoHenri Lefebvre - Arkielaumlmaumln filosofirsquo Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 3-4 2002 pp6-22 In Finnish

lsquoTila on merkityksellinen ja suhteellinen Rob Shieldsin haastattelu With Mervi Ilmonen and Panu Lehtovuori Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu (3-4) 2002 pp23-37 Interview published in Finnish

lsquoCulture and the Just Cityrsquo Distinktion 23 2002 pp37-44

lsquoSpace and Culture A Resumeacute of Everyday Lifersquo Space and Culture 51 2002 pp4-8

lsquoInformation and Knowledge Economiesrsquo with D OrsquoConnor S Ilcan E Taborsky in Liu et al Organizational Semiotics 2002pdf

lsquoSeptember 11 2001rsquo Space and Culture Spatial Hauntings Issue 1112 2001 pp171-172

lsquoThe New Knowledge Speak The Implications of Contested Definitions of Knowledge and Informationrsquo with Edwina Taborsky Australian Journal of Information Systems 82 2001 pp142-149

lsquoVirtual Spacesrsquo Space and Culture 45 (March) 2000 pp1-12

lsquoArchitecture as a Goodrsquo Architectural Design 131 (Jan-Feb) 1999 pp94-5

lsquoCulture and the Economy of Citiesrsquo European Urban and Regional Studies 64 (October) 1999 pp303-311

lsquoApkujung-no ou O que fiz nas ferias de versorsquo Logos Comunicaccedilno e Espaccedilo 5 1998 pp43-8 In Portuguese

lsquoRaumkonstruktion und Tourismusrsquo Voyage Jahrbuch fuumlr Reise und Tourismusforschung 2 1998 pp53-72 In German

lsquoFlowrsquo Space and Culture 1 (July) 1997 pp1-5

lsquoEthnography in the Crowd The Body Sociality and Globalization in Seoulrsquo Focaal Tijdschrift voor Antropologie 3031 1997 pp23-38

Meeting or Mismeeting The Dialogical Challenge to Verstehen British Journal of Sociology 472 (June) 1996 pp275-294

lsquoHenri Lefebvre the Production of Space and Everyday Lifersquo Interview with John Ploeger Soziologi dag (Sociology Today) (January) 1995 pp65-80 In Norwegian

lsquoSite Work - Niagara Fallsrsquo Waterloo Journal of Architecture 2 1993 pp38-47


lsquoDie Masken des Konsumenten Lebensstil Konsumrsquo GDI-Impuls Journal of the Gottfried Duttweiler Institute 21 (Spring) 1992 pp3-20 In German

lsquoA Truant Proximity Presence and Absence in the Space of Modernityrsquo Environment and Planning D Society and Space 102 (Summer) 1992 pp181-198

lsquoThe System of Pleasure Liminality and the Carnivalesque at Brightonrsquo Theory Culture and Society 71 (February) 1991 pp32-79

lsquoAutour des chutes du Niagara spatialisation postmodernersquo Socieacuteteacutes 33 1991 pp311-320

Introduction to the Ethic of Aesthetics Theory Culture and Society 81 1991 pp1-6

lsquoSocial Spatialisation and the Built Environment The Case of the West Edmonton Mallrsquo Society and Space 72 (Summer) 1989 pp147-164

lsquoSociotechnics A Paradigm for Efficient Social Actionrsquo with Adam Podgorecki Journal of Applied Sociology 61 (Spring) 1988 pp15-31

e) Papers in Refereed Conference ProceedingslsquoNanotechnology in Edmonton An Actantial Diagramrsquo with Ghimn Yun-Csang Semiotics 2014 The Semiotics of Paradox American Association of Semiotics 2015 pp259-68

lsquoIqaluit ndash Growth of an Inuit Capitalrsquo Barret Weber Proceedings from the First International Conference on Urbanisation in the Arctic Conference Klaus Georg Hansen Rasmus Ole Rasmussen and Ryan Weber (eds) Stockholm Nordregio 2013 pp39-48

lsquoMobile Phone Imaging as Gesture and Momentorsquo Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley (eds) Mobile Nation Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms Riverside Architectural Press 2008 pp47-52

lsquoSocial science as a design profession new visions and relationshipsrsquo Jorge Frascara (ed) Design and the Social Sciences Making Connections London Taylor and Francis Contemporary Trends Institute 2002 pp201-6

lsquoCutting up Continents Nunavut and Queacutebecrsquo The Dividing Line Borders and National Peripheries Helsinki RenvallInstitute 1997 pp79-86

lsquo150 Years of the Shopping Arcadersquo O Groumln (ed) Social Space in History and Prehistory Odense Denmark University of Odense Press 1991 pp60-78

lsquoNotes sur la spatialisation de la socieacuteteacutersquo G Benko (ed) Les Nouveaux aspects de la theacuteorie sociale De la geacuteographie B la sociologie Caen Editions du Paradigme 1988 pp259-267

f) Public Scholarship and Commissioned WorkslsquoHow can we live the Good Life in Stratarsquo Media Theory 11 2017 Online httpmediatheoryjournalorgrob-shields-how-can-we-live-the-good-life-in-strata

ldquoGenealogies of Social Spacerdquo Lo Squaderno 39 March 2016 Online httpwwwlosquadernoprofessionaldreamersnetp=1667

g) Major Encyclopaedia Articles


lsquoLefebvre Henri International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Ed William A Darity Jr 2nd ed Vol 4 Detroit Macmillan Reference USA 2008 pp400-401

lsquoSpacersquo W Outhewaite (ed) Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought Oxford Blackwell 2002 pp654-659

lsquoHenri Lefebvrersquo A Elliott and B Turner (eds) Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory London Sage 2001 pp226-237

lsquoLefebvre Henrirsquo Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy London Routledge 1998 3pphttpwwwreproutledgecomloginezproxylibraryualbertacaarticleN091

h) Exhibition CataloguesI Dont Remember Transcultural 8 Stirred Memories and Dreams 2016 pp179

Strip-Appeal Co-edited with Merle Patchett Exhibition Catalogue CRSC with Space and Culture Publications 2012 Including With Merle Patchett lsquoThe Design Competition as Public Engagement Methodrsquo pp2-11 and with Merle Patchett lsquoThe Future of Strip Mallsrsquo pp12-16

lsquoEthics of Dustrsquo T Dallett (ed) Screen Exhibition Catalogue Ottawa Gallery 101 1999 pp113-17

lsquoMobility Space and Power The Ceremonial Parkwayrsquo T Dallett (ed) Driving the Ceremonial Landscape Exhibition Catalogue Ottawa Gallery 101 1997 pp24-33

lsquoImaginary Sitesrsquo Between Views Exhibition Catalogue Banff Walter Phillips Gallery Banff Centre for the Arts 1991 pp22-26

i) Published technical reportslsquoResilient Governance and Learning in Albertas Emergency Management Institutionsrsquo with D Gillespie City Region Studies Centre University of Alberta Edmonton AB

lsquoIntroduction to The Production of Spacersquo (pp7-8) lsquoNew Spaces of Concern Nanotechnology design professions and the cityrsquo (pp9-10) lsquoHenri Lefebvre The Production of Space on its 40th anniversaryrsquo (p14) lsquoEthical Aesthetics The Production of scale space and the virtualrsquo (p17) lsquoInterventions in public spaces of concernrsquo (p21) lsquoBeyond Lefebvre A Transdisciplinary Challenge Evening Dialoguersquo (p22-23) Knierbein S and Viderman T (eds) 2015 Urban Culture Public Space and Ways of Life Everday Life and Insights Lectures delivered on the 2014 annual themeof SKuOR the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space Faculty of Architecture and PlanningVienna University of Technology

Petrolia Mall Design Party Report for Greenfield Royal Gardens and Aspen Gardens Community Leagues with Scott Varga Chakanak Zinyemba Iwona Faferek Edmonton May 2013

Development Guidelines City of Leduc Airport Lands with C Zinyemba CRSC and D Deshpande Planning Alliance for City of Leduc Feb 2013

Urban-Rural Interactions Flagstaff County Report with City-Region Studies Centre researchers Edmonton for Sedgewick AB County of Flagstaff 2010

Partnerships Responding to the Changing Dynamics of Urban-Rural Interdependency With City- Region StudiesCentre researchers Edmonton CRSC 2010


A Critical Analysis of Knowledge Management Initiatives in the Canadian Federal Public Service with Jones and Charles OrsquoHara Innovation Research Unit Carleton University Ottawa 2000 23pp

Innovation in Clean Room Construction Cooperation between firms with Kevin West Innovation Research Unit Carleton University Ottawa 2000 24pp

An English Preacutecis and Commentary on Henri Lefebvres La Production de lespace Working Papers in Urban and Regional Studies No 63 (Andrew Sayer ed) Brighton University of Sussex UK 1988

Government Regulatory Capability in the Beaufort Sea with Glen Milne William Sheridan Nepean Development Consultants BSRC CARC July 1983

j) Selected Book reviews in scholarly journalslsquoCompte rendu C Foissart - La Chine et ses migrants La conqegravete drsquoune citoyenneteacuterdquo Espaces et Socieacuteteacutes 160 2015

lsquoBook Review Knowing Places The Inuinnait Landscapes and the Environment Beatrice Collignonrsquo July 2008 1775 words wwwspaceandcultureorg

lsquoArchitext A Book Series on Architecture Design History and DiscoursersquoSpace and Culture Online Feb 2008 2127 words wwwspaceandcultureorg

ldquoAviopolis Social Semiotics 161 2006 pp191-198

lsquoThe Spatialization of Cultural Values and Change ldquo S paces of Global Culturerdquo Anthony D Kingrsquo Building Research and Information 335 2005 pp472-5

lsquoReview Five Books on Architecture and Culturersquo Space and Culture 52 (May) 2002 pp186-189

lsquoReview ldquoDigital Sensationsrdquo by Ken HillisrsquoSpace and Culture 45 2000

lsquoHarmony in Thirds Chora for Lefebvrersquo Review Forum Annals of the Association of American Geographers 892 (June) 1999 pp340-342

lsquoBook Review Per Otnes ldquoOtherWiserdquorsquo Sosiologisk arbok 19972 pp265-268

rsquordquoThe Cultures of Citiesrdquo by Sharon Zukin American Journal of Sociology 1025 (Mar) 1996 pp1464-66

lsquoReview Essay Michael Gardiner ldquoThe Dialogics of Critique MM Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideologyrdquorsquo Theory Culture and Society 122 (May) 1995 pp161-7

lsquoRussell Keat Nigel Whiteley and Nicholas Abercrombie (eds) ldquoThe Authority of the Consumerrdquorsquo Sociological Review 434 (Aug) 1995 pp579-583

lsquolsquoUrban Sociology Capitalism and Modernityrdquo - M Savage and A Wardersquo Progress in Human Geography 194 (Dec) 1995 pp575-7

lsquoPaddy Scannell Phillip Schlesinger and Colin Sparks ldquo C ulture and Powerrdquorsquo Canadian Journal of Sociology 194 (Fall) 1994 pp572-3

lsquoStephen Crook Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Waters ldquoPostmodernization Change in Advanced Societiesrdquorsquo Sociology - The Journal of the British Sociological Association 274 (Nov) 1993 pp711-713


lsquoThe Aesthetics of Everyday Life Recent Books on Housing and Homelessnessrsquo arc architecture research and criticism 13-4 1992 pp46-47

Michel Maffesoli ldquoAu Creux des ApparencesrsquoTheory Culture and Society 11 1991 pp179-183

k) Papers and Interviews in Professional JournalslsquoThe Mobilities Turn in Planning Theoryrsquo Curb Magazine 42 2015

lsquoPublishers Notersquo Curb Magazine 41 2012 pp1

lsquoCurb Appeal Winterrsquo Curb Magazine 31 2012 pp1-2

Curb Appeal Rural Futuresrsquo Curb Magazine 22 2011 p2

lsquoCurb Appeal Communityrsquo Curb Magazine 21 2010 pp1-2

lsquoCurb Appeal Place-based Policyrsquo Curb Magazine 12 2010 p2

lsquoCurb Appeal Concluding Thoughtsrsquo Curb Magazine 11 2009 pp23-24

lsquoLinn urbanisus virtuaalsus - Vestlus Rob Shieldsigarsquo with Andres Kurg Virkerkaar 4-5 2004 pp153-159 Interview published in Estonian

lsquoEntrevista com Rob Shieldsrsquo with Francisco Gracioso Revista da ESPM 142 (March-April) pp78-83 2007

lsquoEntonces se me ocurrioacute que lo urbano es virtual Una conversacioacuten con Rob Shieldsrsquo with Ignacio Fariacuteas Bifurcaciones Revista de estudios culturales urbanos 7 (Conducted 2006) August 2008 wwwbifurcacionescl007Shieldshtm

l) WebsitesA New Twist on the Strip a new architectural approach to walkable vibrant neighbourhood malls with Jennifer Tran forthcoming in Strip-Appealcom

Webmaster and editor Space and Culture Online 2014ndash httpwwwspaceandculturecom

Henri Lefebvre resources 2006-7 httpwwwualbertaca~rshieldsLefebvrehtm (replaced by ongoing participation in a Wikipedia entry 2007ndash)

Contributor lsquoSpatializationrsquo and lsquoHenri Lefebvrersquo Wikipedia pages 2007ndashhttpenwikipediaorgwikiSpatialization

Contributor lsquoSpace and Culture Onlinersquo Space and Culture 2003-11 httpwwwspaceandcultureorg

Contributor lsquoIntermedia blogrsquo University of Alberta Faculty of Arts and Dept of Sociology Intermedia Studio 2009-11 httpwwwintermediaualbertaca

6 Editorial Responsibilities

Urban Studies translation series Co-editor in Chief Phoenix Educational Publishers Nanjing China


Espaces et Socieacuteteacutes Comiteacute de lecture Refereed journal 2013-

Territory Politics Governance International Advisory Board (Taylor and Francis and Regional Studies Association) Refereed journal 2014-

Founding Publisher and Editor at large CURB Planning Magazine City-Region Studies Centre (2 issues annually Industry- and Institution-sponsored practitioner publication Print run 5000 3750 municipal and private subscribers across Canada) 2009-

Studies in Emergent Order Editorial Board Refereed journal 2011-12

Editorial Committee Member Wilfred Laurier University Press Environmental Humanities Series May 2008-

Journal of Critical Studies on Business and Society Advisory Board Refereed journal 2007-

Global Media Journal Advisory Board Refereed journal 2006- In Farsi and English gmjutacir

European Journal of Higher Arts Education Advisory Board (European League of Institutes of the Arts Amsterdam) Refereed journal 2004-

Fast Capitalism Editorial Board Refereed online journal 2005- wwwfastcapitalismcom

Mobilities Journal Advisory Board (London Routledge) Refereed journal 2005-13

Founder and Editor Space and Culture (Thousand Oaks CA Sage) Refereed journal of research on social spaces 1997ndash 2006 Founding publisher 1997-2001 Editor 2001-06 Co-editor 2006- ISI Ranked wwwspaceandculturecom

Social Semiotics International Advisory Board (Sydney and London Carfax) Refereed journal 1996ndash2013

Theory Culture and Society Editorial Board (Thousand Oaks CA Sage) Refereed journal 1995ndash

7 Papers Presented to Learned Societies

Space and Culture as critical practice and as space of culture European Sociological Association Culture Section Conference Exeter University 19 Nov 2016

Experiments in Strip Appeal Merle Patchett Stephanie Davidson Georg Rafailidis Rob Shields 6th International Conference on Architecture Competitions 27 October 2016

Place as Topoi Canadian Sociological Association Calgary June 2016

Time-Space and Topological Affect Residential School Sites American Association of Geographers San Francisco March 2016

Power and the Topology of Toxicity Diagrams Folds Geometries Topologies Toxic Media Ecologies Intermedia Research Studio University of Alberta March 2016

Bare Nature Canadian Association of Geographers Vancouver June 5 2015


Nanotechnology in Edmonton An Actantial Diagram Semiotic Society of America Seattle Oct 4 2014

Cities and Universities Paper and session Organizer and Chair Beijing Forum 2014 PKU Beijing China Nov 9 2014

Keynote Talk Strip-Appeal AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban CulturesSummer School Becoming Local Vienna TUWien 30 Aug-5 Sept 2014

New Spaces of Concern Geopolitics at the nano-scale Political Geography Research Group Invited Paper Institute of British Geographers Imperial College London 28 Aug 2014

Archetypes of Topology American Association of Geographers Los Angeles Apr 9-14 2013

Nanotechnology and Community Ne3Ls National Nanotechnology Conference Montreal Nov 7-9 2012

Cultural Topology - Event Spaces Seminar Sept 5-7 2011 Bristol UK ndash World University Network

Feral Suburbs Property and Globalization Symposium Shanghai International Studies University Shanghai Sept 22-24 2011

Topology in the scholarship of the Shan Hai Jing Chinese Academy of Social Science Beijing Sept 29 2011

Plenary talk Creative Suburbia Conference Queensland University of Technology September 2010 (httpwwwcreativesuburbiacom)

lsquoTopology and Urban Theoryrsquo Also session organizer and Chair lsquoTopology in Geographical Theory and Method Sessionrsquo Respondent lsquoPolitical Geography Plenary Lecture on Wounded Citiesrsquo Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Seattle Washington April 12-16 2011

lsquoCity Regions amp The Question of Identityrsquo Urban Affairs Association Conference New Orleans 13-16 March 2011

lsquoEcologies of Affectrsquo Keynote Canadian Association of Geographers Western Division Edmonton AB March 2010

Changing Geopolitics of Nunavut and Greenland Iqaluit American Association of Geographers Annual Conference April 19 2010

Building Sustainable Community in Boom and Bust Fort McMurray Urban Affairs Association Conference Honolulu Hawaii 10 2010

The Affect of Suburbanisms in the Global North and South Association of Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural Studies Lingnan Hong Kong June 29 2010

Cultures in Motion Mobilities and migration Keynote paper Cultures of Movements Royal Roads Victoria BC March 2010

Canadian Association of Geographers Ottawa June 2009

American Association of Geographers San Francisco California 19 April 2009

Affective Urbanism American Association of Geographers Boston MA 19 April 2008


Delta Cities American Association of Geographers San Francisco California 19 April 2007

Mobile Phone Imaging Videoconference Mobile Nation Canadian Design Research Network Conference Ontario College of Art and Design Toronto 23 March 2007

Biotechnological hope and the time-spaces of lsquopotentiarsquo American Association of Geographers Chicago Illinois 11 March 2006

Spatializations of the Virtual American Association of Geographers Denver Colorado 8 April 2005

Opening Plenary Building The Future Impacts of New Technology on Urban Form and Urban Design

Building the Future Conference Nordic Association for Architectural Research Kungl Tekniska Houmlgskolan Stockholm Sweden 23 April 2005

Opening Plenary Space and Culture Everyday Life in Cultural Studies Culture Without Centres Danish Cultural Research Network Conference Middelfart Denmark 20 Jan 2005

The Intelligence of Intelligent Transport With Velli and Mervia Himanen STELLA Seminar Budapest Hungary 22-24 Apr 2004

The Limits of Reflexive Modernization The Social Spatialization of Risk Society American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Section on Sociology of Culture Atlanta Aug 19 2003

Keynote Paper lsquoThe City is in the Eye of the Beholderrsquo Visual Culture in Britain Conference Clore Gallery Tate Britain London Oct 2002

Keynote Paper lsquoThe Role of Cities in New Knowledge Based Economiesrsquo Nordic Conference on Urbanism and Housing Hanaholmen Helsinki Finland November 17 2002 The Virtual and Everyday Spaces in Geographical Discoursersquo American Association of Geographers March 19-23 2002 Los Angeles California

Knowledge Communication and the Virtual 2nd SEE Conference October 6-8 2001 University of Toronto

Knowledge and Spaces of Flow Annual Meeting 50th

Anniversary of the Canadian Association of Geographers May 29-June 3 2001 Montreal

Spatializing the Dialectic American Association of Geographers New York February 2001

Chronotopography Bakhtin and Geography Invited Guest Paper Institute of British GeographersRoyal British Geographical Society Plymouth January 2001

The Silence of Places - Absence and the Spaces of Flows Invited Guest Paper American Anthropological Association San Francisco Nov 2000

Place and Absence American Sociological Association Washington Aug 2000

Everyday Life and the Culture of Modernity Communication Department University of Pittsburgh Apr 2000

Social Science as a Design Profession Design and the Social Sciences International Conference University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Oct 1999


Bakhtins Landscape Alterity and Spatial Distance in Cultural and Subaltern Studies Ninth International Bakhtin Conference Free University of Berlin Germany July 1999

Plenary Address Memory and Place The Importance of attending to absence in place-based research ACCUTE Association of College and University Teachers of English and Canadian Comparative Literature Association Annual Conferences University of Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Queacutebec June 1999

Medium or Space The Web the Net and Everyday Life The Ethic of the Index and its Space-time Effect World Wide Web Metaphor Magic and Power Conference Drake University Des Moines Iowa Nov 1998

Plenary Address Culture Economy and Cities Second European Urban and Regional Studies Association Conference Durham UK Sept 1998

The Architecture of Flow lsquoIdeas in Progressrsquo series Visual Culture and Media Middlesex University Cat Hill Barnet UK Feb 1998

Flow as Social Topology paper presented to the School of Architecture Aarhus Denmark November 1997

Plenary Address The Flexible Sociality Thesis Consumption Global Flows and Identity Conference on Urbanity and Identity NordPlan Stockholm November 1996

Cultural Economy Economy and Culture Colloquium Centre for the Study of Cultural Values Lancaster University Lancaster UK May 1996

Istanbul flows lsquoTime and Valuersquo Conference Lancaster University Lancaster UK July 1996

When Reels Spin Empty Time After Media Time After Media Symposium Austrian Communication Society Linz Austria March 1996

Plenary Address Everyday Life Contextual Illness Subjectivation Everyday Life in Advanced Societies Conference Aalborg University Denmark November 1995

Community Gemeinschaft and Postmodern Crowd Institute for Historie og Samfundsforhold Roskilde University Roskilde Denmark Oct 1995

The Dialogical Challenge to Verstehen Sociologisk Institut K benhavns Universitet Copenhagen Denmark Oct 1995

Plenary Address Consumption Culture and Sociality Shouts from the Street Conference Institute for Popular Culture Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester September 1995

Sites and Bodies Sociale Faculteit University of Tilburg Netherlands June 1995

Plenary Address Culture Spoken Here Cultural Studies in Canada Conference University of Toronto June 1994

Postmodern sociability An Agenda for Research on the Global Metropolis Post-Fordism and Postmodernism Reflections on Research and Theory Symposium Carleton University Feb 1994

Lifestyle Shopping Mall Culture in Canada Frost Centre Seminar Trent University Peterborough Jan 1994


North as Nation Centre for Northern Studies Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research Lakehead University Thunder Bay Apr 1993

Plenary Address Spaces of Consumption Changes in Consumption and Advertising since the 1950s Conference University of East London London UK September 1994

Plenary Address Culture Spoken Here Exploring Contemporary Discourse Analysis Symposium Carleton University March 1993

Consumer Culture Radical Scholars and Philosophers Conference Loyola University Chicago Illinois Nov 1991

Land and Nation The Spatialisation of the State Reconfiguring the Map Symposium Carleton University June 1991

The Individual Consumption Cultures and the Fate of Community British Sociological Association Annual Conference Manchester March 1991

Tribes in Malls Theoretical Implications of Place Persona and Sociability Centre for Research on Culture and SocietySymposium Carleton University Ottawa March 1991 Also presented at Dept of Sociology seminar Memorial University St Johns Newfoundland Feb 1991

8 Papers Presented to Other Academic Bodies

Topology of Toxicity Toxic Media Ecologies University of Alberta March 2017

Suburbs for Settlers Reconciling layers of Indigenous land rights affect and trauma in the postcolonial landscapeof Canadian suburbia University of Washington Tacoma Urban Studies Annual Lecture May 18 2017

Spatialization of Engagement Workshop on lsquoSocial Cartography Network Analysis and Issue Mappingrsquo Centre for Global Citizenship Education amp Research University of Alberta March 16 2017 httpswwwdropboxcoms33ozlid8t06ai9jShields-RttCpptxdl=0

Rapid Urbanization and Contemporary Space-Time of China Shandong Forum Shandong University Jinan ChinaOct 2016

Figures of the Virtual Zombies Ghosts AngelsMigrants Coimbra Conference on the Virtual University of Coimbra Portugal Oct 27 2016

Cultural Topologies of Experience or Jet lag and the revelation of time Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture Concordia University Montreal Nov 1 2017Time Space and the Social Public Lecture Nanjing University June 6 2016

The Shan Hai Jing as a clue to cultural topology Lecture Nanjing Normal University June 7 2016

Seminar Urban Design Nanjing Normal University June 8 2016

Lecture with David Harvey Shandong University Jinan China June 13 2016

Seminar with David Harvey Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences Shandong University Jinan China June 132016

Panel with David Harvey Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing China June 16 2016


lsquoCultural topologies and cultural studiesrsquo Pubic Lecture Capital Normal University Beijing China June 20 2016

Nanotechnologies Sociologie Univ de Strasbourg Oct 22 2014

Strip-Appeal Arts Based Research Lab University of Alberta Oct 9 2014

Seminar Aesthetics of Nation Beijing Normal University Beijing China Nov 13 2014

Seminar Popular Canadian Culture Cultural Studies University of International Business and Economics Beijing Nov 12 2014

Seminar Sociology Peking University Beijing China Nov 10 2014

Seminar Institute of Comparative Literature Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing Nov 11 2014

Topology and Property Theory Culture and Society Workshop on Property Naples Italy Sept 20-22 2012

lsquoNotes on the Historical Sublime from a Cross Cultural Perspectiversquo Art Technology and Perception in a Globalised Age Zhongzhou University Zhengzou Henan and Shaanxi Normal University Xian Shaanxi China April 19-20 2013

lsquoPhilosophy and Placersquo Conference of the Graduate Collegium of Eichstaett lsquoPhilosophy of the Placersquo 13-15 June2013

lsquoTopology in the scholarship of the Shan Hai Jingrsquo Chinese Academy of Social Science Beijing September 29

lsquoCultural Topologies of Property Social Reproduction and Global Oil Circuits in Fort McMurray Albertarsquo Shanghai International Studies University Property and Globalization Symposium 24-26 Sept 2011 httpblcucoms484bomeindexphpm=contentampc=indexampa=showampcatid=40ampid=143

lsquoCultural Topologyrsquo World University Network Workshop on lsquoEvent-Spacesrsquo University of Bristol UK 5-7 Sept2011

Feral Suburbs Plenary talk Peripheral Visions Suburbs Representation and Innovation Kingston University UK17-18 June 2011

lsquoCultural Topologies of Suburbiarsquo Plenary talk Creative Suburbia Conference Queensland University of Technology September 2010 (httpww w creativesuburbiaco m )

lsquoSocial Spatialisation and Cultural Topologyrsquo Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Literary Theory Beijing June 2010

lsquoTheory Culture and Society Project on Global Knowledgersquo Megacities International Invited Workshop Critical Theory institute University of California Irvine June 2010

The Virtual and Anticipatory Politics Implications for Critique Talk to the Dept of Political Science University of Victoria March 2010

Politics of Public Space Keynote paper Politics of Public Space Conference School of Architecture and Planning Technical University of Delft 18-19 March 2009


lsquoLifestyle and Consumptionrsquo ESPM University Sao Paulo Brazil 19 March 2007

lsquoCoisas Intangivelsrsquo School Lecture Faculdade de Communicaccedilatildeo Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador Brazil27 Feb 2007

lsquo60 degrees of separationrsquo Videoconference Cybercidade Research Group and Space and Culture Reading Group 30 November 2006

lsquoSpaces of Fearrsquo Geography and Liminality Theories and Case-Studies International Workshop University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands July 2006

lsquoAffect Spacersquo Dept of Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton 5 May 2006

lsquoVirtuality of the Cityrsquo Dept of Geography San Diego State University of 24 Feb 2006

Opening Plenary Katrina Conference University of California Santa Cruz 21 Jan 2006

lsquoPlace Myths ndash Place Imagesrsquo Opening Talk Symbolic Constructions of the City Centre for Metropolitan Studies Symposium Transtlantisches Graduiertenkolleg Berlin-New York 1-2 Dec 2005

lsquoThe Glance Or How to Virtualize the Cityrsquo Offentlichkeit Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung Berlin 30Nov 2005

Presented by and co-authored with Andrea Sharkey lsquoTechnology Communication and Citizen Participation in a Rural Town Youth Centrersquo Citizenship and Communication Panel Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association Annual Meeting University of Western Ontario London Ontario 4 June 2005

Opening Talk Capital Region Studies Symposium University of Alberta 7 Mar 2005

Virtual CitiesVirtuality of Citiesrsquo Sociology Seminar University of Lethbridge 9 March 2005

Organizer and Chair lsquoThe Space of the Artsrsquo Faculty of Arts symposium University of Alberta 18 April 2005

lsquoBuilding The Future Innovation Design and the Virtualrsquo Seminar Dept of Social and Economic Geography University of Uppsala Sweden 25 April 2005

Panel Presentation ICT Computing in the Arts University of Alberta 24 Jan 2005

laquoLe Virtuel et lrsquoActuelraquo Gretech Symposium Centre drsquoEtudes sur lrsquoActual et le Quotidien Univ de Paris V ndash Sorbonne France 11 Nov 2004 (in French)

Panel Presenter Autour de Michel Maffesoli Symposium Centre drsquoEtudes sur lrsquoActual et le Quotidien Univ de Pars V ndash Sorbonne France 12 Nov 2004 (in French)

lsquoThe Virtualrsquo Theory Culture and Society Centre Nottingham Trent University UK 17 Sept 2004

lsquoA Glance at Contemporary Virtualitiesrsquo Brunel University UK 16 Sept 2004

lsquoSpace and Place of Cultural Studies Comparison scale and disciplinarityrsquo Lecture Canadan Association of Cultural Studies University of Alberta October 14 2004


Governing in the Knowledge Society Cardiff School of Social Sciences Seminar Cardiff University Cardiff Wales 29 Apr 2004

Social Science and the Virtual Seminar London School of Economics 27 Apr 2004

Virtuality and the City Art History and Communication Studies McGill University Montreal 20 Apr 2004

CyberUrbe ndash Everyday Life of and in the Virtual City CyberUrbe FACOM Federal University of Bahia Salvador Brazil 12-14 Apr 2004

Sociology and the Virtual Departmental Seminar Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton 29 Mar 2004

The Significance of Place to Culture Public Forum Telus Centre University of Alberta Edmonton 30 Mar 2004

The Virtual and the City Communication and Cultural Studies Sir Wilfred Laurier University Waterloo 5 Mar 2004

Blanks Dark Moments and Blind Fields Henri Lefebvres Critiques of Modernity Communication Studies and

10th

Cultural Studies Anniversity Lecture University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 25 Feb 2004

Perspective Remembrance and Techniques of the Virtual Visual Knowledges Conference Edinburgh University Scotland 17-20 Sept 2004

lsquoRob Shields on Lefebvre Four Lectures in CURSrsquo Centre for Urban and Regional Studies YTK Helsinki University of Technology October 22-31 2002

lsquoInnovative Places Networks Images and Virtualitiesrsquo Innovatiivinen Kaupunki Yhteistyoumlssa Helsingin Kaupunki ja Teknillinen Korkeakoulu (Helsinki HighTech Centre) Helsinki Finland October 9 2002

lsquoLefebvre and the Cityrsquo School of Art Tallinn Estonia October 2002

lsquoBoundary-thinking in theories of the presentrsquo Canadian Association of GeographersACCUTE Joint Session on Boundaries May 2002

lsquoThe Role of the Virtual in Knowledge-based Economies ldquoLocalities Globalities and Methodrdquo invited seminar sponsored by Nokia Mustio Finland April 9-13 2002

ldquoGlobalization Harmonisation or flowering local identityrdquo ldquoThe Cross Cultural Transfer of Building Environmental Informationrdquo International Research Workshop University of British Columbia March 14-16 2002

Bourdieu and Taste ldquoThe Politics of Performancerdquo Nov 23 2001 Carleton University Ottawa

The Welfare City International Workshop on ldquo Welfare and Urban Developmentrdquo Danish Building Research Institute Copenhagen May 16-17 2001

Lefebvre and Everyday Life ldquoArt and Everyday Liferdquo Symposium Art History Department Stanford University Palo Alto CA May 5-6 2001


Contextual Knowledge Embeddedness Flow and Social Geographies of Change Social Geography of Educational Change- Contexts Networks and Generalizability Invited Expert Symposium Spencer Foundation and Universitat Barcelona March 2001

Walking City Visits New York School Lecture Series the Glasgow School of Art Glasgow March 2001

Canada in the Space of Flows Annual Lecture Anthropology Trent University February 2001

Place - Knowledge - Context Cultural Studies Goldsmiths College London February 2001

Henri Lefebvre Philosopher of Everyday Life Geography University College London January 2001 With Edwina Taborsky Dan OrsquoConnor and Suzan Ilcan The Impact of a Knowledge Based Economy on Work in the Public Service Knowledge Based Economy Strategic Grants Thematic Conference Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada University of British Columbia Vancouver December 2000

Military landscapes and Cultural Ecology Citizensrsquo Network for Cultural Reform (Munwhaa Kehyuk Ulwihan Shiminyundae) Peoplesrsquo Forum 2000 Asia-Europe Economic Summit Seoul Oct 18-20 2000

Conditions for the production of new knowledge society - cultural aspects Dankook University Seoul 17 Oct 2000

Invited Lecture Studentrsquos Union Dankook University Seoul October 2000

Invited Lecture Urban Planning Seoul National University Seoul October 2000

Virtual Organizations lsquoVirtual Society Get Realrsquo Conference Ashridge UK June 2000

Virtual Space lsquoPerforming Virtualitiesrsquo Conference Windsor Great Park Brunel University UK June 2000

Place Memory and Absence Dept of Geography Open University Milton Keynes UK June 2000

Tourist Flows and Internet Cafeacutes NCGIA Expert Seminar on Place and Identity in an Age of Technologically Mediated Movement University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Cal Oct 1998

Motivating Innovation in Construction Canadian Construction Research Board Construct Canada 98 Congress Centre Toronto Dec 1998

The Architectonics of Pedagogy Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council International Seminar University of Western Ontario London Ontario April 1996

9 Other Important Forms of Scholarly Productivity

a) Recent Conference Organization and Public Policy Events (see also Section 2c Outreach)Chair and Co-organizer Idea of Place 20th Anniversary Space and Culture Conference May 5-7 2017

Co-organizer and presenter Theorizing Place session Canadian Sociological Association Calgary Juen 2016

Rapid Urbanization and Contemporary Space-Time ofChina Shandong Forum 2016 Social Development and Changes in East Asia

Cultural topology Lake Lecture Phoenix Press Group Nanjing Oct 2016

MC and Panelist lsquoSprawlrsquo Regional Planning Speakers Series Mar 12 2015

Opening Keynote Speech SMART Cities Alliance Summit St Albert AB 18 Sept 2014


lsquoRegional Planning Speakers Seriesrsquo City-Region Studies Centre University of Alberta Master of Ceremonies Facilitator and Panellist 6 talks annually industry and municipality sponsors APPI accredited 2009-2013 Sponsored by City of Edmonton Government of Alberta Alberta Real Estate Foundation Brownlee LLP AECOM Alberta Professional Planners Institute Leduc County Strathcona Countycrscualbertacapublicspeakerseriescfm

Marginal Youth and Youth Centres Workshop City-Region Studies Centre Feb 2013

Strip Appeal Charette II ndash Petrolia Design Party Feb 2013Visual design workshop for residents in south-central Edmonton for Greenfield Royal Gardens and Aspen Gardens Community Leagues Report to leagues and online documentation Culminated in a third event in July with lemon-aid stands to celebrate the re-opening of this mall with 40+ community members serving 500+ members of the public co-sponsored by No Frills Grocery store

Presentation to City Councillors on Nanotechnology in Edmonton and the Capital Region Jan 2013

Citizens Summit on Nanotechnology City-Region Studies Centre Mar 2013

Regional Development in Alberta Canadian Chamber of Commerce lsquoSmart Citiesrsquo Conference Calgary Oct 2012

lsquoRegional Researchrsquo City-Region Studies Centre Symposium University of Alberta Sept 15 2011

ldquoRethinking Lyotardrdquo International Symposium University of Alberta Feb 10-11 2011

Organizer and Sponsor Annual HM Tory Lecture (superceded by Regional Planning Speakers Series 2010-)-Prof Gregory Seigworth Millersville University USA September 2010-Prof Ann Game University of Sydney Australia September 2008-Giles Lane and Orlaugh Woods Proboscis Artists Studio London UK April 2008-Prof Tom Gieryn Indiana University Space of the Arts II Faculty of Arts Forum March 2006-Prof Ken Hillis University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Space of the Arts I Faculty of ArtsForum 9 April 2005

lsquoAnnual Theory Retreat Weekendrsquo Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation 2009-13 Dept of Sociology Universityof Alberta and Space and Culture Research Group (Sponsor funder)

lsquoShaping our Region Symposium The Alberta Capital Regionrsquo University of Alberta Capital Regional Board June2010

Master of Ceremonies and Host Community and University Sustainability Symposium University of Alberta March 2010

Member Organizing Committee Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Annual Conference University of Alberta October 2005

Chair Ad Hoc Committee for an Interdisciplinary Degree in Information Culture Carleton University 2003

Conference organizer National Capital Freenet Symposium on Community and the Internet in conjunction with research on community networking and local identity June 22 1999


b) Recent Media Interviews (Selected)with Merle Patchett Agence France Presse Canada Rethinks Strip Malls Coverage in all North American dailies and globally over 36000 news papers and websites (Google Trends) for example China Post lsquoCanada Rethinks Suburban Strip Mall Strategyrsquo Dec 30 2012 wwwchinapostcomtwlifeenvironment20120130330020Canada-rethinkshtm

How about gardening or golfing at the mall With Merle Patchett New York Times Business Section pB1 Feb 5 2012 httpwwwnytimescom20120206businessmaking-over-the-mall-in-rough- economic-timeshtmlpagewanted=all

Display Magazine lsquoStrip Appeal Jury Winner is a Timely Lesson from Debt Ridden Americarsquo with Merle PatchettMar 13 2012 httpwwwdisplaydesignmagazinecompage7googleb0t=true

Unlimited lsquoWhat do you do with a problem like a strip mallrsquo with Merle Patchett Mar 1 2102 httpwwwunlimitedmagazinecom201203what-do-you-do-with-a-problem-like-a-strip-mall

Planetizencom lsquoNorth America Rethinks its Strip Mallsrsquo with Merle Patchett Sept 9 2013 httpwwwplanetizencomnode54168

The Atlantic lsquoStrip Malls Like Youve Never Seen Beforersquo with Merle Patchett Feb 2 2012 httpwwwtheatlanticcitiescomdesign201202strip-malls-youve-never-seen1125

Edmonton Journal lsquoGerman Architects Win Edmonton Strip-Mall Design Contestrsquo with Merle Patchett Jan 19 2012 httpwww2canadacomedmontonjournalnewsarchivesstoryhtml id=7d26ea98-6239-454b-b9ec-2f1dc3613951

National Post lsquoCanadas Strip Malls Crumble Towards Extinctionrsquo with Merle Patchett Nov 11 2013 httpnewsnationalpostcom20111113canadas-strip-malls-crumbles-toward-extinction

Halifax Chronicle Herald lsquoDesign Contest Rethinks Strip Mallrsquo with Merle Patchett Nov 11 2013 httpthechronicleheraldcacanada47070-design-contest-rethinks-strip-mall

National Post lsquoMall Stripped Barersquo with Merle Patchett pA8 Nov 12 2011

Edmonton Journal U of A asks designers to rethink lsquo50-era strip mallsrsquo with Merle Patchett Nov 12 2011

Globe and Mail lsquoRoof Soccer and Outdoor Movies Reinventing strip mallsrsquo with Merle Patchett Toronto Reporton Business pB7 Dec 27 2011

CBC lsquoStrip Appeal Competitionrsquo Radio 1 Edmonton Sept 13 2011 httpwwwcbccaedmontonam20110913strip-appeal

Edmonton Journal lsquoClareview station falls short of 1970s visionrsquo Aug 18 2011 httpwwwedmontonjournalcomnewsClareview+station+falls+short+1970s+vision5271198storyht ml

O Correio Brazilienses lsquoPerguntas para Rob Shieldsrsquo Interview with Sergio da Sa Brasilia 31 March 2007 buscacb2correiowebcombrcorreio20070331P0310-3103pdf

National Film Board and Radio Canada lsquoLe Mallrsquo Documentary Montreal 13 Apr 2006 (in French) CBC lsquoDowntown Planningrsquo Radio 1 Edmonton 13 March 2006


lsquoThinking Space Exploring the Social Dimensionrsquo Work of Arts Faculty of Arts in Review University of Alberta Spring 2005 pp4-5

CBC and Primitive Productions Digital Humans Documentary Toronto 2005

CTV Edmonton Television News ndash Skateboarders and Churchill Square Edmonton 28 Sept 2004

lsquoMatkalla kohti totaalista turvaarsquo with Jani Paumlivaumlnen Helsingin Sanomat 25 May 1997 pB5

c Juried and Non-juried Exhibitions and InstallationsAddict Saint (painting acrylic) Toxic Media Exhibition Latitude 53 Gallery Edmonton April 2017

Survivall Locational media installation with Mari Fiorelli and Andre Lemos Vivo Arte Mov MAM Museo drsquoArte Moderne Salvador Bahia Brazil Juried Oct 2010

Salvador Sounds sound and video installation with Mickey Vallee University of Alberta Dept of Music April 2008Non-juried

10 Academic Research Grants

a) Government or Extra-UniversityCorresponding scholar Research projectgraduate school lsquoOrteVerortungen Praxen und epistemische Konfigurationenrsquo Catholic University of Eichstaumltt-Ingolstadt Bavaria Germany

2016-18 Co-applicant lsquoTracking Youth Digital Declarations Facilitating Evidence-based Innovation across Youth Centresrsquo with S Todd (Carleton Univ) Youth Centres Canada Distill Mobil CRSC Cristal Kids Youth Centre Edmonton Old Strathcona Youth Society Smiths Falls and District Centre for Youth Kemptville Youth Centre Kanata Haven Youth Centre SSHRC Partnership Development Grant $190000Research Assistants Dianne Gillespie Burcu Osdemir Ziru Deng 2016

2016 Co-applicant lsquoPrairie Partnership for Arts Researchrsquo SSHRC Partnership Grant Letter of Intent with M Blackstone (Regina) and others Alberta Foundation for the Arts Calgary Arts Development Rozsa Foundation Edmonton Arts Council Alberta Partners for Arts and Culture Manitoba Arts Council Arts and Cultural Industries Association of Manitoba Manitoba Department of Tourism Culture Heritage Sport and Consumer Protection University of Manitoba Winnipeg Arts Council Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Saskatchewan Arts Alliance Saskatchewan Arts Board SaskCulture University of Regina First Nations University of Canada City of Regina City of Saskatoon Creative Saskatchewan Heritage Saskatchewan Ministryof Parks Culture and Sport Saskatchewan Canadian Heritage Canada Council Statistics Canada Cultural Statistics Satellite Group University of the Arts London World Cities Culture Forum SSHRC Partnership Grant Letter of Intent $20000

2015 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant City-Regions in Prospect Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada$5000

2012-14 Principal Investigator with Dr K Jones and Prof N Petersen Co-Principal Investigators and Co-applicants lsquoNanotechnology and the Communityrsquo Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant $199000Postdoctoral Scholar Dr Y-C Ghimn 2012-14Research Assistants Michael Granzow 2012-14 Katie Herzog 2012-13 Robyn Taylor-Neu 2012-13


2011 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant Ecologies of Affect Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada $5000

2011-14 Principal Investigator lsquoRe-imagining the Minimallrsquo Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant $37000Major Activities Strip-appealcom design contest to re-imagine the suburban strip mall Charettes with practitioners owners and communities Petrolia Mall particpatory redevelopment EdmontonPostdoctoral Scholar Dr Merle Patchett 2011Research Assistant Ondine Park Sociology 2011 (City-Region Studies Centre ResearchAssistantship) Scott Varga (Human Ecology 2012-13)

2011 Aid to Scholarly Meetings Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (RethinkingLyotard Conference Feb 10-11 2011) $25000Research Assistant Heidi Bickis Sociology 2011 extended with Tory Chair research assistantship Summer 2010 and 2011

2009 and 2010-17 Co-applicant with Prof Roger Keil City Institute York University Toronto lsquoGlobal Suburbanismrsquo Letter of Intent 2009 ($20000) Awarded 2010-17 Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada MCRI $2500000Research Assistant Ondine Park Sociology 2010 (City-Region Studies Centre ResearchAssistantship)

2009-12 Collaborator with Prof Philip Steinberg Principal Investigator (Florida State University) ldquoMateriality and the Imaginary in Arctic Sovereignty ndash International Comparative Study of Circumpolar Nationsrdquo 2010-12 National Science Foundation USA US$376779Research Assistant Barret Weber (Sociology PhD Program)

2008-11 Collaborator with Prof Sara Dorow lsquoSocial Landscapes of Neoliberal Growth the Caseof Fort McMurray Albertarsquo Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaResearch Assistant Andriko Lozowy (Sociology PhD Program)

2005-08 Collaborator with Prof Tim Antoniuk lsquoObjective Regeneration - Exploring how developedsocieties perceive use and live with high-tech sustainable materials objects and environmentsrsquo ResearchCreation Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada $241915Research Assistant Ondine Park (Sociology PhD Program)

2003-07 Principal Investigator Workplaces and Work Days in a Small Town Changes in the Times Spaces and Pace of Information-Related Work Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada $86454Research Assistants Andrea Sharkey (Sociology PhD program 2003-04) Cathryn Kallwitz (Sociology MA Qualifying Year 2003-04) Maureen Flynn-Burhoe (Sociology PhD program 2004-05) Tamy Superle (Sociology PhD program 2004-05) Anne Galloway (Sociology PhD program 2006-08)

2005 Co-Applicant lsquoMedia and Urban Life in North America Montreal New York Mexico Cityrsquo Letter of Intent Phase Major Collaborative Research Initiative Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada $20000

2004 Facilitator Canadian Construction Innovation Conference Institute for Research in ConstructionNational Research Council of Canada Calgary June 25-27 $750


2003 Researcher Research Monograph Cultural Policy and Intersections of Diversity Department of Canadian Heritage Multiculturalism and Human Rights Branch $2000 and in-kind

2000-03 Principal Investigator lsquoThe Impact of a Knowledge Based Economy on Work in the Public Service The ldquoVirtual Organizationrdquo of Expertise and Knowledgersquo Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Challenges and Opportunities of a Knowledge-based Economy Strategic Theme Grant (Awarded Jan 1 2000) 3 Years $390000Major Activities Case Study Research on the lsquoinformation spacersquo and expert knowledge base involved in regulation of genetically modified crops (corn) in Canada Comparative research in FinlandResearch Assistants Jane Hampson (Research Coordinator full time 2000-03) Maureen Flynn-Burhoe (Sociology PhD program 2003) Carrie Sanders (MA Sociology program Summer 2002 2003) Co-author Kate Fletcher (MA Sociology program Summer 2002) Co-author Adam Fiser (MA Sociology program Summer 2002)Co-author Kevin Jones (MA Sociology program Summer 2000)Charles OrsquoHara (MA Geography program Summer 2000) Zoe Sujon (MA Sociology program 2000-02)

2000-03 Principal Investigator lsquoThe Culture of the Building Site Innovation in the Canadian Construction Industryrsquo Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada plus research time release 3 Years $58000Major Activities Book on innovation in construction with Andreacute Manseau National Research Council of Canada (contracted Ashgate Publishers)Research Assistant Kevin West (Interdisciplinary Studies BA and Masters in Industrial Relations 1998-99 Summer 2000) Co-author

1999 Principal Investigator Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada lsquoImpact of a Knowledge-Based Economy on the Permanent Workforce of the Federal Public Service Managing Knowledge and Expertisersquo Challenges of a Knowledge Based Economy Strategic Theme Seed Fund $5000Research Assistant Kevin Jones (MA Sociology Program Summer 1999)

1998 Principal Investigator National Centre for Geographic Information Applications Santa Barbara Cal National Science Foundation Washington DC Seed Grant lsquoCommunity Networking and Local Identityrsquo US$3400Major Activities Online survey and Symposium for National Capital FreenetResearch Assistants Heather Bromberg (Sociology PhD Program Summer 1998) Derek Foster (CommunicationPhD Program Summer 1998)

1995 Principal Investigator lsquoImages and Acts of Urban Sociabilityrsquo Pilot Study Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada $10000

b) University Grants

2017 Kule Institute for Advanced Studies University of Alberta Conference Grant

2016 University of Alberta Grant Assist Program Bridging Grant for high ranked SSHRC Insight Grant ApplicantlsquoPlace as Topoi case histories of spatial temporal logicsrsquo $5000

2014 University of Alberta Grant Assist Program lsquoInnovation Partnership Grantrsquo $8000 Complete

2011 Killam Foundation Cornerstone Grant lsquoCommunity and Nanotechnology in the Edmonton Regionrsquo University of Alberta $30000 CompleteResearch Associate Dr Kevin Jones (Senior Research Associate City-Region Studies Centre) 2011


Research Assistants Bryan Sluggett Sociology Catherine Scheelar Anthropology 2011

2008 Travel as Canadian Sponsor and Collaborator with Philip Steinberg (Associate Professor of Geography Florida State University) for fieldwork in Ottawa and Washington on lsquo Contested Sovereignty Claims and the Northwest Passagersquo International Council for Canadian Studies Canadian Embassy Washington DC University of Alberta EFF SAS Grant $160911

2004 Videoconferencing Equipment Endowment Fund for the Future University of Alberta $15950

1997 Vice President Academic and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Carleton University OrganizedResearch Unit on Innovation Research $4000

1993 Dean of Social Sciences GR-6 fund Research on Urban Social Interaction Carleton University $2500

1992 Dean of Social Sciences GR-6 fund Research on Henri Lefebvre Carleton University $2500

c) Industry and Other Operating Funds2016-17 MITACS Internship (with prospect of renewal) Applicant with Edmonton Heritage Foundation Dr K Jones City Region Studies Centre $15000

11 Service to the Profession

a) Offices in Learned SocietiesMember National Steering Committee Canadian Association of Cultural Studies 2004-05 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Conference Media Coordinator 1994

b) Scholarly assessments-External Referee for Scholarly JournalsEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (1990-) Theory Culture and Society (1990-) Annals of the American Association of Geographers (1992-) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (1993-) Socieacuteteacute et Socieacuteteacutes (1994)

-External Referee for Scholarly Book SeriesWilfred Laurier University Press (2007) Sage Publications (1994-) Routledge (1992-) Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (1994 2003) University of Minnesota Press (2001-) Blackwell Publications (2001) Macmillan (2003 2005)

-External Referee for Major Research Proposals and National InitiativesConsultantsrsquo Report on the Graduate Program in Digital Futures at OCAD University Toronto for Ontario Council on Graduate Studies March 11 2011 Finnish Academy of Science (2006) European Science Foundation (2005)

External Evaluator lsquoWelfare City Projectrsquo (Unpublished Report) Social Science Research Council of Denmark Danish Building Research Institute Ministry of Social Research Denmark Copenhagen (May 2001)

Economic and Social Science Research Council UK JET Capital Grants Programme (projects in excess of GBP 2 million (2000)) Postdoctoral Scholarships (2000-02) Regular Research Grants (2000)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada External Referee Standard Research Grants (1997 2000)


-Recent External Referee for Academic PromotionsBulent Batuman Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor Bilkent University 2014

Jonathan Roberge Canada Research Chair Laval University External Referee 2012

Michael Glass Tenure Univ of Pittsburgh External Reviewer 2012

Bulent Diken Promotion to Professor Lancaster Univ External Reviewer 2012

Anon Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor Communication North Carolina State University June 2010

Anon Promotion to Senior Lecturer Sociology Brunel University UK Nov 2009

Anon Promotion to Professor Communications University of North Carolina October 2008

-External Examiner for PhDsOle Jensen Habilitation Higher Doctorate Aalborg University Denmark Oct 2014

Naotaka Hiyashi Anthropology PhD University of Alberta External Examiner March 2013

Samita Nandy PhD Griffiths University External Examiner 2013

Patrick Gamsby PhD Univ of Alberta External Reviewer 2012

Steven Lepine PhD Psychology University of Alberta Internal Examiner 2011

Michael MacDonald PhD Music University of Alberta Internal Examiner 2010

Jason Wallin PhD Education University of Alberta Internal Examiner 2009

James Cresswell PhD Psychology University of Alberta Internal Examiner 2009

Lilia Verchinina PhD Sociology University of Alberta Examination Committee Member 2004 Completed Sept 2008

Peter Larson PhD MLCS University of Alberta Examination Committee Member External to Dept Jan 2009

Amie Matthews lsquoBecoming a Citizen of the World Understanding the Experiential Significance of Young Peoples Journeys Through ldquoLiminoidityrsquorsquo Geography PhD Newcastle University Callaghan NSW Australia Jan 2008

Jane Daniels lsquoSchizoid Consuming-Body-Subjectivity An Exploration of Consumer Culture Marketing Discourse Bodies and Powerrsquo English PhD La Trobe University Victoria Australia Dec 2007

Kate Moles lsquoNarratives of Postcolonialism in Liminal Space The place called Phoenix Park Dublinrsquo School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Wales May 2007

Don Bosco Antony lsquoA Critical Examination of the New Economy and Its Impact on Youth Culture Studiesrsquo National University of Singapore April 2007


Matthew Kearnes lsquoThe Materiality of Public Artrsquo University of Newcastle Callaghan New South Wales AustraliaOctober 2003

Barbara Henderson-Smith PhD lsquoThe Consequences of Potentiality Consumer Spaces from 1600 to 2000 FilmMedia and Cultural Studies Griffith University Brisbane Australia April 2003

Katerina Keskitalo PhD University of Lapland Rovaniemi Finland November 2002

Justine Lloyd PhD Film Media and Cultural Studies Griffith University Queensland Australia 1999

Colleen Skidmore PhD Sociology Cultural Studies and Art History University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta 1999

Paula Whitman PhD lsquoThe Shopping Centre as Town Centre Seeking Social Centrality in the Iconographic Details of Use of Contemporary Retail Spacesrsquo Architecture Griffith University Brisbane 1999

Roberto Fereira-Freitas PhD Social Anthropology La Sorbonne Universiteacute de Paris V Paris France 1993

-External Examiner for MAMichael Granzow MA Sociology University of Lethbridge Examiner 2009 Jean Chia MA Anthropology University of Alberta Examiner 2007

Andrea Pinheiro MFA Printmaking University of Alberta 30 Oct 2007

Jodie Asselin Anthropology MA University of Alberta 19 Sept 2007

Kerry Harmer External Critic Final MDes Project and Thesis Industrial Design Art and Design University of Alberta 26 May 2006

Eric Watercote External Critic Final MFA Project Review Printmaking Art and Design University of Alberta 25 May 2005

Christine OrsquoConnor lsquoActivity Theoryrsquo MA Thesis Psychology Carleton University April 28 2003

Mary Johnson lsquoOnline Onscreen Motion Picture Marketing via the Internetrsquo MA Thesis School for Studies in Art and Culture Film Studies Carleton University April 25 2001

Ruth Bankey lsquoAgoraphobiarsquo MA Thesis Geography Carleton University 1999

Eric Sauveacute The Calico Trade and the Crisis of the Object MA Thesis Institute of Political Economy CarletonUniversity 1999

Mathew Coleman lsquoNomadic Bodies and Environmental Degradationrsquo MA Thesis Institute of Political EconomyCarleton University 1999

Jill Delaney lsquoThe Culture of Public Housing in Twentieth Century Canada Architectural Design and Cultural Meaning in Three Public Housing Projects 1918-1990rsquo Canadian Studies MA Thesis Carleton University Ottawa 1991

c) Other-Advisory Boards


SKuOR Advisory Board Technical University of Vienna (TUWien) 2015ndash

Infoscape Research Lab Ryerson University 2004-

Institute for Popular Culture Manchester Metropolitan University Board 1995-2000

Centre for Research on Consumption University of East London Advisory Board 1995-97

-Consultancies and Contract Research to GovernmentsDevelopment Guidelines City of Leduc Airport Lands with Chakanaka Zinyemba Scott Varga and D Deshpande Planning Alliance for City of Leduc Oct 2012-Feb 2013 $35000

lsquoUrban-Rural Interdependenciesrsquo (7 technical reports) with Kevin Jones et al City-Region Studies Centre Government of Alberta 2009-10 httpwwwcrscualbertaca $200000

Facilitation of the 1999 Construction Innovation Roundtable (Unpublished Report) National Research Council of Canada Institute for Research in Construction 1999 $1250

lsquoInnovation in the Canadian Construction Industry with R Clayton PriceWaterhouseCoopers Ottawa for National Research Council of Canada Institute for Research in Construction 1999 $20000

lsquoMotivation Business Plan (Unpublished Report) with Dr Elizabeth Shove Design Society and Space Research Unit Lancaster University for Construction Sponsorship Directorate Department of Environment UK Feb-June Publication lsquoThe Motivation Reportrsquo 1996 $28000

lsquoFactors Enabling and Inhibiting Innovation in Constructionrsquo (Unpublished Report) with E Shove and N Packwood Design Society and Space Research Unit University of Lancaster for Construction Sponsorship Directorate Department of Environment UK Publication lsquoFactors Enabling and Inhibiting Innovationrsquo 1996 $65000

Economic and Social Sciences Research Council UK Consultancy to develop a programme proposal for lsquoThe Virtual Societyrsquo Research Programme (Unpublished Report) 1995-6 $7000

Secretary of State for Youth Cross-Canada interviews with respondents to the Senate Special Committee on Youth 1995 $5000

Canada Council Explorations Grant Ontario Summer Works Program lsquoForms of Industrial Architecturersquo with Nadia Subotincic 1984 $63000

Museums Canada and Public Works Canada Photographic Documentation Project 1984 $5000

12 Academic Responsibilities

a) Graduate courses taught-University of AlbertaCities and Suburbs Sociology 585 2016

Space and Time in Sociological Theory and Practice 2013

Virtual and Material Culture Interdisciplinary Course Department of Sociology (Soc634B) 2009-08 2010-11 2011-12


Cultural Theory Interdisciplinary Course Department of Sociology (Soc604B) 2004-06

Visual and Material Culture Interdisciplinary Course Department of Sociology (Soc634) 2007-08

Numerous Graduate Course Guest Lectures Sociology Art and Design Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Earth and Atmospheric Sciences also to the public and via videoconference to other universities withinthe outreach and internationalization mandate of the Tory Chair

-Carleton UniversitySelected Topics in Sociology Tourist Mobilities Destinations in the Global Space of Flows Dept of Sociology and Anthropology graduate seminar (SOC5805) 2003

New Media and Virtual Spaces Dept of Sociology and Anthropology graduate seminar (53566) 1999-2000

Cultural Theory Dept of Sociology and Anthropology graduate seminar (53539) 1994-95 2000-03

Cultural Studies Dept of Sociology and Anthropology graduate seminar (53539) 1991-93

b) Undergraduate courses taught-University of AlbertaCities and Suburbs Soc 445585 2014ndash

History of Design ArtH 409509Built Environments Soc 445 (cross-listed course on urban design) Departments of Art and Design Sociology 2008 2010 2012

-Carleton University (Department of Sociology unless otherwise noted) Urban Culture (half year) Honours seminar and workshop (56456) 2000-

Power and Everyday Life (Co-taught with Erin Manning) Second Year Core course (56202) 2000-01

Reading the Web (full year) First year seminar (03111) 1998-99

Contemporary Sociological Theory (full year) Honours core course (53405) 1997-99

Cultures of Internet Module Culture and Communication Lancaster University UK (10 week module) First year core course 1996-97

Design and Material Culture (full year) Third Year option course Culture and Communication Lancaster University UK (half year) 1995

Exploring Cultural Practices Third Year core course Culture and Communication Lancaster University UK (full year) 1995-97

Urban Sociology Workshop (half year) Honours seminar (53456) 1993-95 Advanced Topics in Communication Research (half year) Honours seminar 1992-93

The Development of Sociological and Anthropological Thought (full year) Core theory course (56202) 1991-98

Introduction to Culture Studies (half year) Third year seminar (56385) 1991-98


First Year Sociology Trent University and Carleton University (Full year) Large Introductory LectureSurvey course (53100) 1989-91

-Invited and Intensive Courses at Other Universities2014 Stiftungsgastprofessur der Stadt Wien City of Vienna Professor TUWien Technical University of Vienna SKuOR Arbeitsbereich fuumlr Stadtkultur und oumlffentlicher Raum Faculty of Spatial Planning and Architecture New meaning for a citys (derelict) industrial sites designing places of emancipation June 2014

2002 lsquoHenri Lefebvrersquo Short course for Urban and Regional Planning Helsinki University of Technology HelsinkiFinland

2000 lsquoPerforming Virtualitiesrsquo Intensive short course for Sociology Dept CRICT and ESRC lsquoVirtual Societyrsquo Research Programme Brunel University UK

1999 Intensive Graduate Summer Institute Course for Sociology Dept Interdisciplinary Summer School University of Lapland Rovaniemi Finland May

1998 Intensive Graduate Summer Institute course for Geography Dept University of Oulu Oulu Finland August

1997 Intensive Graduate Summer Institute Course for Network Cultural Studies Mekrijarvi Finland May

c) Supervisions-Visiting Students Researchers and Postdoctoral SupervisionsRafico Ruiz After Ice New Horizons for Cryographic Knowledges Banting Postdoctoral Scholar University of Alberta 2017-

Paulina Miskiewicz Preciptate Ecologies and Architectures Postdoctoral Scholar City Region Studies Centre University of Alberta 2017-

Caio Bersot Salvador Lost Vatican UARE Intern Universdad Federal de Rio de Janiero January-April 2017

Nathalia Osorio Walkability and GPS for Pedestrians UARE Intern Rosario University Bogota Colombia January-April 2017

Farhad Bayani Critical Realism Visiting PhD student Sociology University of Tabriz Iran July 2016-Dec 2017

Ziru Deng Youth Centres Visiting Intern East China Normal University Shanghai China Scholarship Council July-Sept 2016

Jennifer Tran Petrolia Mall Architectural Proposal Visiting Intern University of Sydney School of Architecture Jan-Mar 2016

Nara Rocha PhD Publico Ergo Existo PhD Sciences sin fronteras program Co-supervisor University of Pernambuco Recife Brazil

Dr Yun-Csang Ghimn Semiotics of Nanotechnology Postdoctoral Researcher 2012-14

Prof Hamid Abdollayan Sociology of Media and Communications Sabbatical University of Tehran Iran 2010-11


Dr Merle Patchett Reimagining the Minimall Postdoctorate 2011-12

Prof Pan Keli Sabbatical Linyi Normal University LinYi Shandong China 2010-11

Dr Sergio di Mello Postdoctoral Sabbatical CnpQ Universidad Federal da Pernambuco Pernambuco Brazil 2000-10

Dr Andre Lemos Postdoctoral Sabbatical CNpQ Universidad Federal da Bahia Salvador Brazil 2007-8

Dorte Odde Sorensen lsquoPoetics of Shopping Mallsrsquo Sociology PhD University of Copenhagen 1994-95

-University of Alberta PhD SupervisionJeongwon Gim Sociology and Planning Interdisciplinary Studies PhD 2016-- Space and Culture Editorial Assistant

Bozhin Traykov Sociology PhD Supervisor 2016--

Pradeep Sangapala Planning PhD Co-supervisor 2016-- Tory Chair Research Assistant

Michael Granzow Sociology PhD Supervisor 2015ndash CRSC Editorial Assistant SSHRC Doctoral Assistant

Ipek Oskay Sociology PhD Supervisor 2013ndash Tory Chair Research Assistant Editorial Assistant Space and Culture Editorial Assistant

Lynne Mbajiorgu Planning PhD Committee Member 2015ndash Community Resilience and Sustainability

Ondine Park Sociology Supervisor 2014 CRSC Research Assistant Editorial Assistant Space and Culture book co-editor grant co-applicant

Olrsquoga Pak Sociology Supervisor (2005-medical leave of absence) Co-author

Petra Hroch Sociology Supervisor 2014 Killam Scholar Ralph Steinhauer Award SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship Co- animator of Workshop Supervisor

Heidi Bickis Sociology Supervisor 2014 Conference organizer book co-editor

Andriko Lozowy Sociology PhD Supervisor 2007-2013 University of Alberta SSHRC-funded Research Assistant Co-Author

Barret Weber Sociology The Politics of Development in Nunavut Supervisor University of Alberta 2007-12 Supervisor 2013 Tory Chair Research Assistant Co-author

Tonya Davidson Sociology 2012 Editorial Assistant Space and Culture Co-author and book co- editor

Lane Mandlis Sociology 2011 Supervisor SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship

Carolina Cambre PhD Interim Supervisor Educational Policy 2010 Co-supervisor SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship

Matt Tiessen Interdisciplinary SociologyArt and Design 2010 Killam Scholar SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship Editorial Assistant Co-Supervisor Co-author


Mickey Vallee Interdisciplinary SociologyMusic 2009 Co-supervisor Tory Chair RA Co-author Co-Editor of Website

Yun-Csang Ghimn Interdisciplinary SociologyCommunication 2008 Tory Chair RA Co-animator of Workshop Co-Supervisor Postdoctoral supervisor 2013-14

Pablo Markin Modern Languages and Cultural Studies 2008 Tory Chair RA Supervisor

-Carleton University PhD SupervisionsAndrea Sharkey Sociology Mosaic of Silence mdash Hearing What Young People in Canada Have to Say Carleton Univ 2000-2010 Co-supervisor with Janet Siltanen Interviewer fully funded on SSHRC SRG Co-author Editorial Assistant Space and Culture 2002-05

Anne Galloway lsquoIntimate and Playful Technologies Ubiquitous Computing Space and Culturersquo Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 2000-08 SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship Funded conference travel and fieldwork Co-editor of Website Governor Generals Medal

Heidi Rimke Sociology 2005 Carleton Univ Supervisory Committee member SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship

Tamy Superle Sociology Carleton University 2003-04

Debbie Landry Sociology Carleton University 2003-04

Heather Bromberg Sociology Carleton University 1997-2004

Maureen Flynn-Burhoe lsquoNanuq Carved into Cyberspace Archives of Collective Memoryrsquo Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 1998-2004

Monica Degen lsquoCity of Facades Urban Revitalization in Manchester and Barcelonarsquo PhD Sociology University ofLancaster Lancaster UK Co-supervision with John Urry and Bulent Diken 1996-2002

Fiona Coyle lsquoRisk and Safe Spacesrsquo Geography Carleton University 1997-2002

Steve Williams PhD Sociology Carleton University Committee member 1993-99 Supervisor 1999-2000 Completed 2000

Dan OConnor lsquoCinematic Regimes of Light and Powerrsquo Sociology 1993-1998

-Lancaster University PhD SupervisionsPaul Haynes lsquoComplexity and Self-Modifying Systemsrsquo PhD Sociology University of Lancaster Lancaster UK Co-supervision with Sarah Franklin and John Law 1996-2001

Vince Miller lsquoEnclaves and Identityrsquo PhD Sociology University of Lancaster Lancaster UK Co- supervision with Celia Lury and Bulent Diken 1995-2001

Tung-Hung Ho lsquoLocal and Global Rock-Music in Taiwanrsquo PhD Sociology University of Lancaster Lancaster UK Co-Supervision with Andrew Sayer 1996-2001

-Participation in other PhD thesis committees (Alberta Carleton and elsewhere) Jonathan Bratt Geography PhD State University of Arizona Phoenix Committee member 2016-


Matt Unger Sociology PhD 2013 Chair and Examiner

Erin Kruger Sociology PhD Committee member 2005-2009

David Matsinhe Sociology PhD Committee member 2005-2009

Phillip Boyle Sociology PhD Specialization Committee member 2004-2006

Steve Cole Sociology PhD Committee member 2004-2006

Kristen Lozanski Sociology PhD Committee member 2004-2008

Heidi Rimke lsquoMoral Insanityrsquo PhD Sociology Carleton University 1997-2005

Valerie de Courville-Nicol PhD Sociology Carleton University 1993-1999

David Tilson PhD Amenagement et Planification Universiteacute de Montreacuteal Montreacuteal 1991-1996

Jill Delaney lsquoCitizenship and Civic Squares Contemporary Canadian Town Hallsrsquo PhD Art History and Architecture Binghamton University Sate University of New York 1992-1996

-University of Alberta MA SupervisionsJuan Guevara MA Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Medicine and Sociology 2012-

Ipek Oskay MA Sociology Supervisor 2013 Editorial Assistant Space and Culture

Scott Varga MA Human Ecology Co-Supervisor 2012-

Katie Herzog MA Sociology Co-Supervisor 2012-

Jenna Hill MA Industrial Design Co-Supervisor Completed 2011

Susan Kisilevich MA Sociology 2011 Completed 2011

Allison Hui MA Sociology Supervisor 2005-2007 Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship Ipek

Oskay Ipek MA Sociology Supervisor 2005-2008

-Carleton University MA SupervisionsNguyen Ha MArch School of Architecture Carleton University Co-Supervisor 2003-2005

Wendy Rofihe lsquoMemory and Representation of Place in Contemporary Canadian Artrsquo Canadian Studies Carleton University 2002

Co-supervisor Carrie Sanders lsquoMobile Telephones and Emergenciesrsquo Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 2001-2003

Zoe Sujon lsquoSoftware Agents Automation Autonomy and the Artifice of Authenticityrsquo Sociology MA Thesis Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 2000-2002


Adam Fiser Sociology lsquoThe Walkerton Inquiryrsquo Sociology MA Thesis Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 2000-2002 Awarded Senate Medal

Ebyan Salah lsquoQaat and Somali Immigrant Familiesrsquo Sociology MA Thesis 1997-1999

Kevin Jones lsquoConstructing Technology Constructing Nature The Case of rBST in Canadarsquo Sociology MA Research Essay 1998-1999

Charles OHara lsquoTourists and the Consumption of Place in Pangnirtungrsquo Geography MA Thesis Co- supervised with Iain Wallace 1997-1999

James Yaraskavitch lsquoThe Origin of Marx and Engelsrsquo Concept lsquoThe Lumpenproletariatrsquo Sociology MA Thesis Co-supervised with John De Vries 1997-1996

Petra Halkes lsquoCanadian Landscape Paintingrsquo Art History MA Thesis School for the Study of Art and Culture Carleton University 1993-1995

Sushil Mittal Anthropology Sociology MA Thesis Co-supervised with Prof Derek Smith 1991-1993

-Participation in MA thesis committeesLainie Mandlis MA Faculty of Physical Education University of Alberta External member Examination Committee Completed 2005

Ted Norman lsquoSport Commodities Identity and Consumptionrsquo MA Kinesiology Ottawa University Completed 1999

Ian Roderick lsquoViews from Nowhere A Chronotopography of the Victorian Gazetteerrsquo MA Department of Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University Completed 1992

-Honours Thesis SupervisionsAmy Macdonald lsquoThe city creativity and soundrsquo BA Honours Sociology Completed 2009 Governor Generals Silver Medal Sociology Department MacDonald Award Faculty of Arts Award

Adam Kaasa lsquoUtopian PlanningVisions Millwoods Edmontonrsquo BA Honours Sociology Completed May 2005

Pat Vert lsquoNarratives of Accelerationrsquo Directed Interdisciplinary Studies Carleton University 2003 Best Student Essay Prize Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division Conference (CAGONT) October 2003

Adam Fiser Giles Deleuze and the Problematic Field Social Theory as an Event Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 2000 Awarded Senate Medal

Sarah Marceau lsquoAn Extra Servant for Two Cents a Week Gender Domestic Labour and the Washing Machine in the 1950srsquo Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 1999 Awarded Senate Medal

Anthony Blundell lsquoDeconstructing Leisure in Cyberspacersquo Directed Interdisciplinary Studies Carleton University1998

Catrin Butler and Emma Uden lsquoReading and the Webrsquo Multimedia dissertation project Culture and Communication University of Lancaster 1997


Stephanie Briozzo Wai-Kwen Chang Alex Walsh lsquoSwing Your Pants Online gig guidersquo Multimedia dissertation project Culture and Communication University of Lancaster 1996

Jabril Abdulle lsquoConflict Management Across Cultures Case study Somalis and Canadiansrsquo Carleton University 1995 Co-supervisor with Cheryl Picard Elected to Ontario Trillium Foundation Board

Maia Coteacute Canadian Laughter The Role of Humour in Contemporary Canadian Culture Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 1995

Julia Gill lsquoJamaica One Love Images of Jamaicarsquo Department of Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 1994

Jessica Smith lsquoAllegations of Welfare Fraud The Social Construction of Somalis in Publicrsquo Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University 1994

Angela DrsquoEon How Green is the Club Values and Actions of the Sierra Club Directed Interdisciplinary Studies Carleton University 1993

Peggy-Lynn MacIsaac lsquoRape The Set-up of Womenrsquo Directed Interdisciplinary Studies Carleton University 1993

Bonnie Tse lsquoFrom Landscape to Mediascape A Case Study of the Changing Face of Cultural Experience for Chinese-Canadian Immigrantsrsquo Mass Communication Carleton University 1993 Co- supervised with Dr David Marshall

13 Hobbies and Personal Information

Sailing piano drawing and watercolour learning and forgetting languages seat H48 on 787s bicycling Canadian and UK Citizenship

14 ReferencesAvailable on request


July 1995-July 1997 Lecturer Culture and Communication University of Lancaster Lancaster UK (Leave of Absence from Carleton University Sept 1995-Sept 1997) Recommended for promotion to Reader (May 1997)

Jan 1990-May 1990 Postdoctoral Researcher Centre dEtudes sur lActuel et le Quotidien Universiteacute de Paris V La Sorbonne Paris France Part-time Sessional Lecturer Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University (1990-1991)

Oct 1989-Dec 1989 Part-time Tutor Cultural Studies MA and Sociology Part I University of Lancaster Lancaster UK 1989

Jan 1989-May 1989 Part-time Sessional Lecturer Sociology Trent University

Oct 1987-June 1988 Part-time Lecturer GCSE Geography Brighton College of Technology Brighton UK

b) Other EmploymentSummer 1984 Draughtsman Energy Building Group Ottawa

Summer 1983 Assistant Policy Analyst Nepean Development Consultants Ottawa

Summers 1981-82 Architectural Draughtsman Murray Murray Griffiths Rankin Architects andTown Planners Ottawa

Summers 1979-1980 Art Instructor Boy Scouts of Canada Camp Opemikon Perth Ontario

1978-85 Piano teacher (Self employed part-time)

c) Community Outreach Voluntary Service

2016- Academic Director Faculty of Extension PLACES Platform on Cities Engagement and Spaces including City Region Studies Centre and Centre for Public Involvement a legal partnership between City of Edmonton and University of Alberta

2009-13 Notable outreach as Director of City-Region Studies Centre -Strip-Appealcom International Design Competition to reimagine the strip mall (October-Jan 2011-12)

-Unwrap-the- Researchca Community-academic conference in Fort McMurray (Alberta Oil Sands Oct 22-24 2010) -Reshaping our Region Symposium for planners and elected officials (Edmonton June 25 2011) Curb planning Magazine founder (3 issues annually) -Edmonton on the Edge Alley of Light downtown revitalization-Regional Planning Speakers Series videocast interviews

2011-13 Board Member Youth Centres Canada Centres Jeunesse Canada National organization of street youth centres

2008 Organizer iHuman Youth Centre session by visiting HM Tory Chair Visiting Speakers UK artists lsquoProboscisrsquo Edmonton

2006- Founding Board Member City Region Studies Centre University of Alberta Faculty of ExtensionEdmonton Alberta Active in outreach to corporate and community partners research program




















































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