Outline: Deborah Leslie
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Professor & Canada Research Chair in the Cultural Economy PhD UBC (1995) Phone: (416) 978-8467 Location: Room 5066, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: leslie@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Research Interests |
| Cultural industries Commodity chains Material culture Urban economic development Economic geography Feminist geography |
| Selected Publications |
| Catungal, J.P, Deborah Leslie and Yvonne Hii, 2009, “Geographies of Displacement in the Creative City: the Case of Liberty Village, Toronto.” Urban Studies. 46 (5-6): 1095-1114 |
| Leslie, Deborah and Norma Rantisi, 2009, “Fostering a culture of design: insights from the case of Montreal, Canada”. Creativity and Innovation in the Cultural Economy. Ed. Andy Pratt and Paul Jeffcutt. London: Routledge. pp 181-199 |
| Reimer, S. and D. Leslie. 2008, “Design, national imaginaries and the home furnishings commodity chain” Growth and Change. 39(1): 144-171 |
| Catungal, JP and Deborah Leslie, 2009, “Placing power in the creative city: relational geographies of Liberty Village”. Environment and Planning A. Forthcoming |
| Edensor, Tim, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington and Norma Rantisi, 2009, “Rethinking creativity: critiquing the creative class thesis” in Edensor, Tim, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington and Norma Rantisi, Eds. Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge. Forthcoming, September, 2009 |
| Rantisi, N and D. Leslie, 2009, “Creativity by Design? Everyday spaces of creative production in the design sector of Montreal” in Edensor, Tim, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington and Norma Rantisi, Eds. paces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge. Forthcoming, September, 2009 |
| Leslie, Deborah, 2009, “Commodity chains”. Encyclopedia of Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. London: Sage. Forthcoming. |
| Leslie, Deborah, 2009 “Consumption”. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Ed. Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift. Elsevier. Forthcoming summer, 2009 |
| Reimer, S. and D. Leslie. 2008. Design, national imaginaries, and the home furnishings commodity chain. Growth and Change 39(1): 144-171. |
| Leslie, D. and S. Reimer. 2006. Situating Design in the Canadian Household Furniture Industry. Canadian Geographer 50(3): 319-341. |
| Rantisi, N. and D. Leslie. 2006. Branding the Design Metropole: the case of Montreal, Canada. Area 38(4): 364-376. |
| Rantisi, N., D. Leslie and S. Christopherson. 2006. Placing the creative economy: scale, politics, and the material: The rise of the new 'creative' imperative. Environment and Planning A 38: 1789-1797. |
| Leslie, D. and N. Rantisi. 2006. Governing the design economy in Montreal, Canada. Urban Affairs Review 40(5): 1-29. |
| Leslie, D. 2005. Creative cities? Geoforum 35(4): 403-405. |
| Reimer, S. and D. Leslie. 2004. Knowledge, ethics and power in the home furnishings commodity chain. In Geographies of Commodity Chains, eds. A. Hughes and S. Reimer, 250-269. London: Routledge. |
| Reimer, S. and D. Leslie. 2004, Identity, consumption and the home. Home Cultures 1(2): 187-208. |
| Leslie, D. and S. Reimer. 2003. Fashioning Furniture: Restructuring the Furniture Commodity Chain. Area 35(4): 427-437. |
| Leslie, D. and S. Reimer. 2003. Gender, modernism and home consumption. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21: 293-316. |
| Leslie, D. 2002. Gender, retail employment and the clothing commodity chain. Gender, place and culture 9(1): 61-76. |
| Butz, D. and D. Leslie. 2001. Risky Subjects: Changing Geographies of Employment in the Automobile Industry. Area 33(2): 212-219. |
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