Outline: Deborah E. Cowen
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Assistant Professor PhD University of Toronto MScPl University of Toronto BA University of Toronto Phone: (416) 946-0567 Location: Room 5033, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: deb.cowen@utoronto.ca |
| 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 |
| Cowen, Deborah. Forthcoming. A Geography of Logistics: Reterritorializing Economy, Security, and the Social. The Annals for the Association of American Geographers. |
| Cowen, Deborah and Smith, Neil. Forthcoming. After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics. Antipode. |
| Cowen, Deborah. Forthcoming. Containing Insecurity: US Port Cities and the 'War on Terror.' In Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails, eds. Steve Graham and Simon Marvin. New York and London: Routledge. |
| 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. |
| Cowen, Deborah. 2008. The Soldier-Citizen. In Recasting the Social in Citizenship, ed. Engin Isin, 189-209. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press. |
| 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. |
| 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 and Susannah Bunce. 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): 427-439. |
| 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. |
| Teaching (2009-2010) |
| GGR124H1F – Urbanization, Contemporary Cities and Urban Life GGR457H1F – Post-War Suburbs |
