I am an Assistant Professor in the Department and Geography and Planning at Queen’s University. I am fascinated with cities and how they change. I…
Together, rapid population growth, increased commercialization and exploitation of aquatic resources, deforestation and pollution, and encroachments on communally owned resources by national and transnational private…
When the Soviet Union fell, Cuba pedaled its way to independence–by bicycle. What has become of Havana’s sole-powered communities born out of the need to…
In this article we seek to encourage geographers to consider the discursive dimensions of urbanization as a locus for activist inquiry into the right to…
Due to the geographical diversity of Canada, climatic extremes, and active geomorphic processes, the Canadian rail infrastructure is vulnerable where ground hazards exist. Railway ground…
My research into the linkages among advocacy, urban planning, and racial exclusion is ongoing. Working as co-editor of the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry expands…
Indigenous rights are crucial to contemporary land use planning and policy in settler states. This article comparatively analyzes the manifest and latent content of the…
We are now facing Andrew Sayer’s ‘diabolical double crisis’, which encompasses both a deep financial crisis and an environmental one. The scale, scope and nature…
In the book Food Fears: From Industrial to Sustainable Food Systems, (Alison Blay-Palmer), my chapter titled Food Fears: Making Connections, explores the links between the overwhelming economic pressures exerted…
In periods of turbulence, the tendency to simplify messages and polarise debates is nothing new. In our hyper-mediated world of online technologies, where it seems…