Biography

Degrees

• PhD Urban Planning, UCLA-University of California, Los Angeles
• MA Urban Planning, UCLA-University of California, Los Angeles
• BAP Landscape Architecture, Université de Montréal

Research Interests

• Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
• North American Border Politics
• Media Representations of Immigration and Diversity
• Pluralism, Identity and Ethnicity
• Urban Planning, Design and Urbanism
• Social and Environmental Justice
• Exurban Growth and Environmental Conservation
• Political Ecology of Landscapes
• Critical Discourse Analysis

Academic Affiliations

• Faculty Member, CITY Institute, York University
• Scholar, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
• Fellow, CERLAC- Centre for Research of Latin America and the Caribbean, York University
• Affiliate Member, CERIS-Centre of Excellence for Research and Immigration and Settlement, Domain 1: Citizenship, Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
• Editorial Board Member Justice Spatiale/Spatial Justice
• Editorial Board Member Environnement Urbain/Urban Environment
• Editorial Member, Capitalism Nature and Socialism, Toronto Group
• Reviewer for International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning A, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Gender Place Culture, City and Society, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Cahier of Géographie du Québec, Urban Habitats, NorteAmérica, University of British Columbia Press.

Research

Publications

• Submitted. North American discursive integration and the continental circulation of anti-immigration rhetorics. Non-NAFTA Issues Impacting NAFTA edited by Imtiaz Hussein.
  
  
• In Press. Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale (with Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg) IN Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale edited by Rianne Mahon and Roger Keil. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
  
  
• In Press. Challenging Sprawl, Preserving Nature: Reframing Environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine (with Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg) IN Environmental Conflicts and Democracy in Canada. Edited by Laurie Adkin. University of British Columbia.
  
  
• 2008. Una mirada al prisma biorregional: construcción de vivienda y conservación de la naturaleza en la Gran Región de Toronto (Through the Bioregional Prism: Building Home and Conserving Nature in the Greater Toronto Region) (with L. Anders Sandberg and Gerda R. Wekerle) IN Norte América: Construccíon de Espacios Regionales edited by Alejandro Mercado Celis, Graciela Martinez-Zalce and Miriam Alfie Cohen. México: Eón Ediciones, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa: 125-155.
  
  
• 2008. Right to the City and Politics of Citizenship (with Mustafa Dikeç) IN Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and Radical Politics edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid. New York: Routledge: 250-263.
  
  
• 2006. Les différentes natures de la péri-urbanisation IN La ville insoutenable edited by Augustin Berque, Philippe Bonnin, and Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin. Paris : Bélin. 183-193.
  
  
• 2006. Political Natures: Re-Appropriation of Home and Water rights in Toronto IN Rights to the City edited by Doris Wastl-Walter, Lynn A. Staeheli and Lorraine Dowler. Rome: Società Geografica Italiana. 65-73.
  
  
• 2006. Négocier la diversité: tensions entre discourse nationaux et pratiques urbaines en Amérique du Nord IN Les métropoles au défi de la diversité culturelle edited by Bernard Jouve and Alain G. Gagnon. Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble. 177-192.
  
  
• 2004. Al norte de México, al norte de Estados Unidos: Diferencias en la inmigracíon, el multiculturalism y la ciudadaniía en Canadá” (North from Mexico: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Canada) IN Fronteras en America del Norte edited by Alejandro Mercado Celis and Elizabeth Gutiérrez Romero. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales en America del Norte/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. 25-42.

Referred Articles

• Forthcoming. Immigration as Local Politics: Rebordering Immigration and Multiculturalism through Deterrence and Incapacitation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2009, 33(2).
  
  
• Forthcoming. Bioregional Citizenship and Environmental Justice in The Greater Toronto Region (with Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg). Local Environments.
  
  
• Accepted. Covering Multiculturalism: Popular Images and the Politics of a Nation (with Leela Viswanathan). Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal.
  
  
• 2007. Legitimizing Neoliberalism rather than Equality: Canadian Multiculturalism in the Current Reality of North America. Norteamérica Revista Académica del CISAN-UNAM. 2(1): 11-35.
  
  
• 2007. Nature as a Cornerstone of Growth: Regional and Ecosystems Planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (with Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg and Matthew Binstock). Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 16(1): 20-38.
  
  
• 2005. Local Responses to Development Pressures: Conflictual Politics of Sprawl and Environmental Conservation (with Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg). Cahiers de Géographie du Québec (Special issue edited by Gilles Sénécal) 49(138) : 377-392.
  
  
• 2005. Multiculturalism in Canada: Alternative Vision, Accidental Discourse, Urban Practice (with Patricia Wood). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29(3): 679-691
  
  
• 2005. Resistance in the Neoliberal City: Tar Angel and the journey from immigrant to citizen. City (Special issue edited by Leonie Sandercock) 9(1): 23-33.
  
  
• 2004. Nuevas consideraciones sobre el pluralismo (en) y la planificación: planificación diferenciada e ideologia multicultural, politicas y praticas en el Canadá (Reconsidering pluralism and (in) Planning: Differentiated Planning and Multicultural Ideology, Policy and Practices in Canada). Anuario de Espacios Urbanos: Historia, Cultural, Diseño 2004 edited by Jorge Morales Moreno. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco. 203-214.
  
  
• 2004. At the Core and on the Edge: Justice Discourses in Metropolitan Toronto. Space and Polity, (Special Issue on Urbanization of Justice Movements), 8(20): 245-260.
  
  
• 2003-04. Landscapes of Contradiction in Las Vegas: The Costs of Sustaining Hyperreality. UnderCurrents 13: 17-19.
  
  
• 2003. Practices of Urban Environmental Citizenships: Rights to the City and Rights to Nature in Toronto (with Catherine Phillips). Citizenship Studies 7(3): 313-330.
  
  
• 2002. Right to the City: Homage or a New Societal Ethics? (with Mustafa Dikeç). Capitalism, Nature and Socialism 13(2): 58-74.
  
  
• 2000. Shades of Duality: Perceptions and Images of Downtown Workers in Los Angeles (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris). Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 17(1): 16-33.
  
  
• 2000. Building the Third Millenium City (with A. Babak Hedjazi, translated from Rémi Baudouï). Critical Planning. 7: 117-126.
  
  
• 1999. William H. Whyte: Seeing, Looking, Observing and Learning from the City (with Mustafa Dikeç). Critical Planning. 6: 23-24.
  
  
• 1997. Decolonizing the City: The Changing Culture of Space in Latino Los Angeles. Surface, 1: 112-124.
  
  
• 1995. Planning Theory of Riots Poetry or Planning Poetry on Riots Theory. Critical Planning. 2: 91-100.

Book Reviews

• 2008. The Intercultural City (Phil Wood and Charles Landry). International Journal of urban and Regional Research, 32(4).
  
  
• 2004. Unmasking LA: Third Worlds and the City (Deepak Narang Sawhney, Ed.) International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 28(4): 955-7.
  
  
• 2004. Montreal: Merging Cultural Politics and Metropolitan/Regional Governance (Book Review: A Quest for a Metropolis by Annick Germain and Damaris Rose). Antipode 36 (4): 733-739

Presentations

• 2009. Criminalization Across Borders: The Migration of “Illegal” Immigration Rhetorics. American Association of Geographers, Las Vegas, March 22-27.
  
  
• 2008. North American discursive integration? North-South migration of immigration rhetorics. Non-NAFTA Issues Impacting NAFTA: Confronting Challenges Outside the Box. Universidad IberoAmericana Ciudad de México, October 27-29 (Invited).
  
  
• 2008. Refugee Settlement: Obstacles and Access to Public Spaces and Insitutions (with B. Rahder, S. McGrath, R. Basu and P. Wood). Refugees and the Insecure Nation: managing Forced Migration in Canada. York University, Toronto. June 17.
  
  
• 2008. Building Bioregional Citizenship: The case of the Oak Ridges Moraine (presented by G. Wekerle, with L. Sanderg) Canadian Political Science Association/Congress. Vancouver, June 5.
  
  
• 2008. Immigration as Local Politics: Fearing Immigration, multiculturalism and diasporic urbanity. Session: Diaspora and the City: Memory, Emotion and Belonging. American Association of Geographers, Boston, 14-19 April, 2008.
  
  
• 2008. Expanding border politics to urban policy through spatial politics of deterrence and incapacitation. Justices et injustices spatiales. Nanterre, FR, March 2008 (Accepted but could not attend)
  
  
• 2007. Expanding Border Politics, Eroding Citizenship: Municipal Ordinances in Immigration and Multiculturalism Debates. Challenges of Global Metropolisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Toronto, Honk Kong, Shanghai, Singapore. York University, Toronto, 27-29 September.
  
  
• 2007. ‘Borderless’ Vigilantism and Immigration Urban Policy. American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, April 17-21.
  
  
• 2006. Popular Images of Diversity and Multiplicity in Canadian Cities (with Leela Viswanathan). World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City, July 11-16.
  
  
• 2006. Growing Nature, Naturalizing Growth: the Complications and Contradictions of Environmental Preservation and Growth Management on the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Greenbelt (with Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg). Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, May 31-June 1.
  
  
• 2006. Popular Images and Political debates of Immigration and Multiculturalism. American Association of Geographers, Chicago, March 7-11.
  
  
• 2006. Diversité ethnique et la citoyenneté urbaine á Montréal. Integration des Immigrés : Une comparaison Montréal et Bruxelles Seminar. Brussels: February 21.
  
  
• 2006. Urban Growth and Environmental Conservation in the Metropolitan Region of Toronto. Associación Mexicana de Estudios sobre Canadá Public Lecture (Invited). Mexico City: February 16.
  
  
• 2005. Covering Multiculturalism: Popular Images and the Politics of a Nation (with Leela Viswanathan). Canadian Ethnic Studies Association. Ottawa: October 13-16.
  
  
• 2005. Tensions and intersections of bioregional Citizenship in the Oak Ridges Moraine (with Gerda R. Wekerle). The Canadian Association of Geographers, London, ON, May 31-June 4.
  
  
• 2005. Multiculturalism Made in Canada: Then, Now and Beyond… XI Associación Mexicana de Estudios sobre Canadá Annual Conference, Tijuana March 3-4.
  
  
• 2005. Multiscalar Politics and Identities of Immigration and Citizenship. Studies in Political Economy Annual Conference, Toronto, February 3-5.
  
  
• 2005. Urban Public Spaces: a stage for non-staged multicultural politics. 4th International Conference of Critical Geography. Mexico City, January 8-13.
  
  
• 2004. Les différentes natures de la péri-urbanisation. Colloque Les Trois Sources de la Ville-Campagne, Cerisy-la-Salle, France, September 20-27.
  
  
• 2004. Contested Exurban Relations and Nature Representations. Political Ecologies in the Exurban Regions I: Preserving Nature, Environmental Conflicts and Discourses. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, April 14-19
  
  
• 2003. The right to travel and the right to settle. Urbanization of Justice Movements? Theories and evidence 1 session, Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 4-8.
  
  
• 2003. (De)naturalized Places, (Re)naturalized Identities: Struggles for Justice and Diversity in Transurbanism. From Four Corners: Interdisciplinary Directions in 21st Century Environmental Studies, Seminar Series organized by FES, Toronto, January 30.
  
  
• 2002. Pluralism and Planning: Gaps between Ideology, Policy and Practices in Toronto. Annual Meeting ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, November 21-24.
  
  
• 2002. Political Natures: Re-Appropriation of Home and Water Rights in Toronto (with Catherine Phillips). Rights to the City Conference, Rome, May 29-June 1.
  
  
• 2002. Immigration and Citizenship: Contested Representation of the Global Economy (Revisiting H. Lefebvre). Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 24-27
  
  
• 2002. Negotiating Diversity: Immigration, Citizenship and Governance in Los Angeles. Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles March 19-23
  
  
• 2001. Interpretation of Heritage Industrial Landscapes (with Adrienne Blattel). Leading Edge Conference, Niagara Escarpment Commission, Burlington, ON: October 17-19.
  
  
• 2001. North from Mexico: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Canada. Seminario Fronteras y Comunidad Latina en America del Norte, organized by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre América del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México City: July 1-4.
  
  
• 2001. The Right to the City Revisited. Salon Nature, Society and Henri Lefebvre, organized by Editorial Collective of Capitalism Nature and Socialism. Toronto: May 19, 2001.
  
  
• 2000. The Politics of Diversity and the Difference of Language Policy in Quebec. Cities and Cultural Diversity in France and the Francophone World. UCLA Department of French and the Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, Los Angeles, February 17.
  
  
• 2000. La variable ‘ethnique’ dans la ville et dans l’ethnographie urbaine. Third Annual Meeting of PRISMA - Processus d’identification socio-spatial dans les grandes métropoles des Amériques. Toulouse, France, March 23.
  
  
• 1999. Pluralism and Planning: Contested Representations of Ethnicity and Immigration. Annual Meeting ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Chicago. October 21- 24.
  
  
• 1999. Conceptualizing Los Angeles. The Getty Research Institute Dissertation Workshop. Los Angeles, May 21-22.
  
  
• 1999. Montréal and Los Angeles: Villes en mutation socio-politique et socio-spatiale. Second Annual Meeting of PRISMA - Processus d’identification socio-spatial dans les grandes métropoles des Amériques. Toulouse, France, February 25.
  
  
• 1998. Pluralism and Planning Theory: Lessons Within and Across Borders. Annual Meeting of ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Pasadena, CA. November 5-8.
  
  
• 1998. From Ethnic to Global Consciousness. (Ethno) Nationalism meets Social Diversity. Annual Meeting of INURA - International Network of Urban Research and Action. Toronto, ON. September 15.
  
  
• 1997. Contested Urbanism: Landscapes of Difference in Multiethnic Los Angeles. International Conference in Critical Geography, Vancouver, BC. August 10-12.