Outline: Deborah E. Cowen
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Assistant Professor PhD University of Toronto Co-Editor, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space www.envplan.com/D.html Phone: (416) 946-0567 Location: Room 5033, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: deb.cowen@utoronto.ca |
| Homepage: http://deb-cowen.net/ |
| Research Interests |
| Contested spaces Geographies of citizenship and labour Militarism, violence, and security Cities and social justice Sub/urban politics |
| My work explores citizenship, labour, and the geographies of belonging. I am captivated by the ways groups claim space, organize and design space, interpret space, fight over space, govern space, and share space, particularly in cities. My research follows two main trajectories. The first examines borders, militarism, security, and violence, where I am interested in how territory is fashioned and how the political is remade through conflict. The second examines urban politics and planning, with a focus on the racialization of poverty and space in the changing postwar suburbs. |
| Selected Publications |
| BOOKS |
| Cowen, Deborah. 2008. Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. |
| Cowen, Deborah & Emily Gilbert (eds). 2008. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge Press. |
| ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS |
| Cowen, Deborah. "Logistics' Liabilities." Anthropological Research on the Contemporary. Forthcoming. |
| Cowen, Deborah and Amy Siciliano "Surplus Masculinities and Security," Forthcoming in Antipode. |
| Cowen, Deborah (2010) “A Geography of Logistics: Market Authority and the Security of Supply Chains.” The Annals for the Association of American Geographers, 100(3): 1-21. |
| Parlette, Vanessa and Cowen, Deborah (2010) “Dead Malls: Suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics.” Forthcoming in The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. |
| Cowen, Deborah. (2009) “Containing Insecurity: US Port Cities and the ‘War on Terror.’" In Graham, Steve (ed.) Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. New York and London: Routledge: 69-84. |
| Cowen, Deborah and Smith, Neil (2009) “After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics.”Antipode, 41(1): 22-48. |
| Cowen, Deborah (2008) “The Soldier-Citizen,” in Isin, Engin (ed.) Recasting the Social in Citizenship. University of Toronto Press: 189-209. |
| Cowen, Deborah & Gilbert, Emily (2008) “Fear and the Familial” in Pain, R. Graham, S & Smith, S. (eds.) Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life, Ashgate: pp. 49-58. |
| Smith, Neil & Cowen, Deborah (2007) “New York Inside Out” in Jerilou Hammett (ed.) The Suburbanization of New York. Princeton Architectural Press: 33-40. |
| Cowen, Deborah (2007) “National Soldiers and the War on Cities.” Theory & Event 10(2). |
| Cowen, Deborah. (2007) “Struggling with ‘Security’: National Security and Labour in the Ports.” Just Labour, 10: 30-44. |
| Cowen, Deborah (2006) “Fighting for ‘Freedom’: The End of Conscription and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship in the United States.” Citizenship Studies 10(2): 167-183. |
| Smith, Neil and Deborah Cowen. 2007. “New York Inside Out.” In The Suburbanization of New York, ed. Jerilou Hammett, 33-40. Princeton Architectural Press. |
| Cowen, Deborah. 2006. “Fighting for ‘Freedom’: The End of Conscription and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship in the United States.” Citizenship Studies 10(2): 167-183. |
| Cowen, Deborah & Bunce, Susannah (2006) “Competitive Cities and Secure Nations: Conflict and Convergence in Urban Waterfront Agendas after 9/11.” The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(2): 427–39. |
| Cowen, Deborah. 2005. “Welfare Warriors: Towards a Genealogy of the Soldier Citizen in Canada.” Antipode 37(4): 654-678. |
| Cowen, Deborah. 2005. “Suburban Citizenship? The Rise of Targeting and the Eclipse of Social Rights in Toronto.” Social and Cultural Geography 6(3): 335-357. |
| Cowen, Deborah (2004) “`From the American Lebensraum to the American Living Room: Class, Sexuality, and the Scaled Production of 'Domestic' Intimacy`.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22: 755-771. |
| Teaching (2011-2012) |
| GGR124H1F - Urbanization, Contemporary Cities and Urban Life GGR339H1S - Urban Geography, Planning & Political Processe GGR457H1S - Post-War Suburb GGR1105H - Human Geography Core Course (MA) |
