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- 2023 Archives
- Scientists dig deep and find a way to accurately predict snowmelt after droughts
- Cracking the Case of Missing Snowmelt After Drought
- 2023 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Daniel Murphy
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Kyle Kusack
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Matthew Taylor
- Anke Baker Wins Staff Achievement Award
- Spring 2023 Virtual Geospeaker Event with Ginger Gosnell-Myers
- CAG Paper Presentation Award - Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven!
- Informing & Engaging Urban Youth on Public Hearings: GEOG 363 Final Showcase
- Research Talk: Modeling Urban Wetland Complexities
- Highlight Paper: Quantifying land carbon cycle feedbacks under negative CO2 emissions
- Bright Addae winner of the 2023 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Jonny Cripps
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Diandra Oliver
- 2023 Geospeaker Presentation with Dr. Pauline McGuirk
- Congratulations to Our Graduates - October 2023
- Evaluating the impact of educational goals at SFU
- The Belongings of Precariously Housed People - A Report
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Takuma Mihara
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Adrienne Arbor
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Claire Shapton
- 2023 Distinguished Speaker Presentation with Dr. Deb Cowen
- Cheers to Paul Degrace and his well-earned retirement!
- 2024 Archives
- Professor Nicholas Blomley Honored with the Community-Engaged Research Achievement Award
- Graduate Students Claire Shapton and Marina Chavez Honored with the Community-Engaged Graduate Scholar Award
- Applications now open: 2024 ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Associate Professor Rosemary Collard achieves 13th place on SFU Altmetric List
- The PEAK feature: GSU hosts inaugural RANGE conference
- Gabrielle Wong wins First Prize in 2023 Student Learning Commons Writing Contest
- Gabrielle Wong receives Warren Gill Memorial Award
- Professor Nick Blomley receives Warren Gill Memorial Award for Community Impact
- Geography Student Union recipient of the FENV 2024 Changemaker Awards
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland reveals the secret sauce of great teaching
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland Receives SFU 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Bright Addae
- GIS undergraduate students participate in the Canada-wide 2024 AppChallenge competition
- Senior Lecturer Andrew Perkins Receives SFU 2024 Dean's Award of Excellence in Teaching
- Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven, Canada's 2024 ESRI Young Scholar
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Robert Ehlert
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Stephan Nieweler
- Eugene McCann writes on "livable cities" in The Tyee
- Tiana Andjelic wins the 2024 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Marina Chavez
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Mia Fitzpatrick
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Lan Qing Zhao
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Tyler Cole
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Benjamin Lartey
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Olivia Nieves
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Max Hurson
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to John Sykes
- Farewell to Robert "Bob" Horsfall, Associate Professor
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to André Araújo
- SFU Geography welcomes ethnobotanist, Leigh Joseph, as professor of Indigenous geographies
- Physical Geography September: What is Physical Geography?
- Alysha Van Duynhoven communicates award-winning research at international GIS conference
- How Dr. Tracy Brennand’s visionary leadership shaped the Department of Geography - a heartfelt thank-you
- Dr. Tracy Brennand honoured with the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Jay Matsushiba
- Human Geography October: What is Human Geography?
- MA Student Joy Russell featured on CBC Vancouver
- Human Geography October: What is Urban Worlds?
- Ajay Minhas Receives 2024 Warren Gill Award
- Dr. Nadine Schuurman featured in SFU news article on Runnability
- GIS Month: What is Geographic Information Science (GIS)?
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Joy Russell
- Hallway Screens Slides
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Areas of Interest:
I am not trained as a geographer, but I am extremely fortunate to have ended up in geography, and at SFU geography in particular. My research, writing and teaching sit at the intersection of political economy, political theory, and the history of ideas. Right now, my focus is on uncertainty, whether it be scientific, expectational or existential. I am trying to understand the ways people deal with the uncertainties that characterize this moment, from probabilistic models to religious commitments to semiautomatic weapons in the garage. I spend a lot of my time thinking about climate change, macroeconomic crisis, and far right/fascist politics, but I am just as interested in the concept and politics of emergency/crisis in contemporary capitalist societies—what it means, how we know one when we see one, and what kinds of things we think we can or cannot do about it.
Over the years have written 5 books (and edited another) and a number of academic articles on everything from climate economics to country music, all of which have a political economy + political theory focus. More recently I have been writing fairly regularly for the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Dissent, the New Statesman, and a few other outlets. In addition to my position here at SFU Geography, I am also an Associate Member of the SFU School of Public Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York City, and have been very lucky to be a resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2016, a Guggenheim Fellow (2022-2023) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2023-2024).
Student research
Nick Gottlieb (Ph.D. current)
Krista Macaulay (Ph.D. current)
Diandra Ships: ‘Who Can Bear to Lose the World?’ Young People vs. Capitalism in British Columbia (Ph.D. dissertation, 2023; currently Senior Program Analyst, BC Public Service)
Howard Tenenbaum: United States Bank Migrations and Deposit Dollar Concentrations (Ph.D. dissertation, 2021; currently retired)
Maria Wallstam: The Making of a Middle Class Housing Crisis: The Ideology and Politics of Foreign Real Estate Investment in Vancouver, 2008–2018 (MA thesis, 2019; currently researcher, University of Uppsala)
Liam Fox: Regulating in the Public Interest? Canadian Energy Regulation as an Institutional Fix for Sovereign Legitimacy (MA thesis, 2019; currently PhD student, University of Toronto)
Mark Kear: Fringe Finance and the Regulation of Poverty in North America (PhD dissertation, 2015; currently Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Arizona)
Emily LeBaron: Reimagining the Geography of the Favelas: Pacification, Tourism, and Transformation in Complexo do Alemão (MA thesis, 2014; currently Manager, UBC Indigenous Research Support Initiative)
Chloe Brown: The Geography of Climate Change in a Rural Resource-Dependent Town: The Case of McBride, British Columbia (MA thesis, 2012; currently at medical school, University of Toronto)
Emilia Kennedy: Found in Translation: Discourse, Imaginaries, and the Production of Meaning in Planning Urban Sustainability (MA thesis 2010; currently Advisor, Alberta Climate Change Office)
Dawn Hoogeveen: What’s at Stake? Diamonds, Mineral Regulation, and the Law of Free-Entry in the Northwest Territories (MA thesis, 2008; currently postdoctoral fellow at UNBC)
Genevieve Bucher: Implementing Sustainability in Surrey: Amending the East Clayton Neighbourhood Concept Plan (MUrb thesis, 2008; currently Senior Social Infrastructure Planner, City of Vancouver)
Robin Jane Roff: Revolution from the Aisle? Anti-Biotechnology Activism and the Politics of Agricultural Restructuring (PhD dissertation, 2008; currently with the UBC Faculty Association)
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.