Outline: Emily Gilbert

Associate Professor
Directory, Canadian Studies Program
PhD Bristol (1998)

Phone: (416) 978-0751
Location: Room B301, University College
Email: emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca

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Research Interests

Citizenship, borders and security
Nationalism, postcolonialism, globalization
The culture and politics of money
Social and political theory
North America

My current research revolves around issues related to citizenship, borders, security, economy, nation-states and globalization. I am particularly interested in the ways that North American geopolitical relations are being reshaped, and how the idea of risk—both economic and social—has been used to discipline behaviour and promote new forms of citizenship. This work also considers the securitization of the region, with a focus on changing border practices and policies. Another aspect of my research addresses the social, cultural and political dimensions of money, from the cultural values inscribed on national currencies, to the proposals for a North American Monetary Union, to general theories of money and exchange. While much of the above work interrogates the concept of the nation-state, I also continue to be fascinated by visual and literary representations, and have examined urban and wilderness narratives with a special emphasis on Canadian national identity and belonging.

Selected Publications

Gilbert, E. Forthcoming 2011. “The Militarization of Climate Change” ACME.

Gilbert, E. Forthcoming 2011. “Borders and Security: The Thickening of North American Relations” in Jeffrey Ayers and Laura Macdonald, ed. North America in Question; Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming.

Gilbert, E. 2011. “Globalization” in John Agnew and Jim Duncan, ed. Companion to Human Geography; Blackwell: 298-312.

Gilbert, E. 2010. Eye-to-eye: biometrics, biopower and the body politic. In Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture, eds. Fraser McDonald, Klaus Dodds, and Rachel Hughes. IB Tauris.

Gilbert, E. Forthcoming 2009. Liberalism. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. Nigel Thrift and Rob Kitchin. Oxford: Elsevier (10,000 words)

Gilbert, E. Forthcoming 2009. Geographic insights into political identity. In Geographic Contributions to International Studies, ed. Colin Flint. Wiley-Blackwell.

Gilbert, E. Forthcoming 2009. Eye-to-eye: biometrics, biopower and the body politic. In Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture, eds. Fraser McDonald, Klaus Dodds, and Rachel Hughes. IB Tauris.

Gilbert, E. 2009. Race, money and risk: future directions in critical geopolitics. GeoJournal. Early online edition available.

Cowen, D. and E. Gilbert (eds.) 2008. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.

Cowen, D. and E. Gilbert. 2008. Introduction: the politics of war, citizenship, territory. In War, Citizenship, Territory, eds. D. Cowen and E. Glibert, 1-32. New York: Routledge.

Cowen, D. and E. Gilbert. 2008. Citizenship in the 'homeland': families at war? In War, Citizenship, Territory, eds. D. Cowen and E. Glibert, 261-80. New York: Routledge.

Gilbert, E. 2008. Banal neoimperialism and the territorial reconfiguration of money. Political Geography 27: 617-629.

Gilbert, E. 2008. Beyond survival: wilderness and Canadian national identity into the 21st century. British Journal of Canadian Studies 21(1): 63-88.

Cowen, D. and E. Gilbert. 2008. Fear and the familial in the U.S. war on terror. In Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life, eds. Rachel Pain and Susan J. Smith, 49-58. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Gilbert, E. 2008. What are the implications of a perimeter approach to security for Canadian border and immigration practices? Report prepared for the Metropolis Project seminar on "Justice, Policing, and Security."

Gilbert, E. 2008. Persistent critique and spatial struggles. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26: 174-175.

Gilbert. E. 2007. Leaky borders and solid citizens: governing security, prosperity and quality of life in a North American partnership. Antipode 39(1): 77-98.

Gilbert, E. 2007. Money, citizenship, territoriality and the proposals for North American Monetary Union. Political Geography 26(2): 141-158.

Gilbert, E. 2006. Commentary: global customs regimes and the traffic in sovereignty: enlarging the anthropology of the state. Current Anthropology 47(2).

Gilbert, E. 2005. The inevitability of integration? Neoliberal discourse and the proposals for a new North American economic space after September 11. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(1): 202-222.

Gilbert, E. 2005. Common cents: situation money in time and space. Economy and Society 34(3): 356-387.

Gilbert, E. 2005, What is at stake in the NAMU Debates? A review of the arguments for and against North American Monetary Union. International Journal of Canadian Studies 161-184.

Teaching 2011-2012

GGR 1714: Cultural and Critical Geographies

UNI 101: Citizenship in the Canadian City

UNI 320: Canadian Questions: Issues and Debates

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Outline: Emily Gilbert