Outline: Katharine N. Rankin
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Associate Professor PhD Cornell University (1999) MRP Cornell University (1995) BA Cornell University (1987) Phone: (416) 978-1592 Location: Room 5002, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: rankin@geog.utoronto.ca |
| I arrived at my present home in Geography and Planning at U of T through interdisciplinary engagements in feminist anthropology, critical development studies, planning theory and community development, as well as practice in the US community reinvestment movement and the gender and development sector in Nepal. My scholarship on market formations, economic subjectivities and social polarization has centred geographically on Nepal, Vietnam and Toronto, Canada. Yet my work is animated as much by interdisciplinary engagements and theoretical debate as it is by ‘area study’ commitments. I am currently undertaking research in the areas of commercial gentrification, neighborhood-based economic development, and post-conflict transition/Nepal, and would welcome inquiries from students with interests in the areas of diverse economies, the politics of development/planning and neoliberalism as a contested process, as well as from those who want to work at the intersection of economic and cultural geography. |
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| Research Interests |
| Politics of planning and development Feminist and critical theory Culture-economy articulations Diverse economies Comparative market regulation Ethnographic methods South and Southeast Asia Toronto |
| Selected Publications |
| Mazer, K. and Rankin, K. N. Forthcoming. ‘The Social Space of Gentrification: Limits to Neighborhood Accessibility in Toronto’s Downtown West,’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. |
| Silvey R. and K.N. Rankin. Forthcoming. ‘Development Geography: Critical Development Studies and Political Geographic Imaginaries,’ Progress in Human Geography. |
| Rankin, K. N. and J. Delaney. Forthcoming. ‘Community BIAs as Practices of Assemblage: Contingent Politics in the Neoliberal City,’ Environment and Planning A 43:1363-1380. |
| Rankin, K. N. 2010. ‘Toward a more ambitious role for economic geography in response to the Global Financial Crisis’, Dialogues in Human Geography 1(1), 26-28. |
| Rankin, K.N. Jan 2010. Reflexivity and post-colonial critique: Toward an ethics of accountability in planning praxis. Planning Theory 9(3). |
| Rankin, K. N. 2009. Critical development studies and the praxis of planning. City 13(2-3): 216-226. |
| Rankin, K. N. 2009. Social and Cultural Geography: Cultural Globalization. Entry in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: Accepted September 2007; 9,000 words. |
| Rankin, K. N. 2008. Manufacturing rural finance in Vietnam: Contested governance, market societies, entrepreneurial subjects. Geoforum 39: 1965-1977. |
| Shakya, Yogendra B. and K. N. Rankin. 2008. The Politics of Subversion in Development Practice: An Exploration of Microfinance in Nepal and Vietnam. Journal of Development Studies 44(8): 1214-1235. |
| Ninglekhu, Sabin and K. N. Rankin. 2008. Neighborhood Associations as Civic Space in Kathmandu: Progressive and Regressive Possibilities. In Globalization, Civic Spaces and Governance: Community and Public Life in Urban Asia, eds. Amrita Daniere and Michael Douglass, 151-174. New York: Routledge. |
| Rankin. K. N. 2008. Commercial Change in Toronto's West-End Neighborhoods. Research Paper 214. Toronto: Cities Centre, University of Toronto. |
| Rankin, K. and Y. Shakya. 2007. Neoliberalising the Grassroots: Microfinance and the Politics of Development in Nepal. In Neo-liberalization: Networks, States, Peoples, eds. Kim England and Kevin Ward, 48-76. Oxford: Blackwell. |
| Rankin, K. N. 2004. The Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal. Pluto Press and University of Toronto Press. [Ordering information] |
| Goonewardena, Kanishka and K. N. Rankin. 2004. The Desire Called Civil Society: A Contribution to the Critique of a Bourgeois Category. Planning Theory 3(2): 117-149. |
| Rankin, K. 2003. Anthropologies and Geographies of Globalization. Progress in Human Geography 27(6): 708-734. |
| Rankin, K. 2003. Cultures of Economies: Gender and Socio-Spatial Change in Nepal. Gender, Place and Culture 10(2): 111-129. |
| Rankin, K. N. 2003. Neoliberalism and Newar Economics of Practice: Gender and the Politics of Consciousness in a Nepalese Merchant Community. pp. 127-146. In Gender and Economic Life, ed. Gracia Clark, in the series Monographs in Economic Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press. |
| Rankin, K. N. and K. Goonewardena. 2003. The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Asia: Democracy Beyond Democracy. In Identity and Ethnic Conflict in Asia, ed. Susan Henders, 95-116. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield. |
| Rankin, K. 2002. Social Capital, Microfinance, and the Politics of Development. Journal of Feminist Economics 8(1): 1-24. |
| Mayer, Margit and K. N. Rankin. 2002. Social Capital and (Community) Development: a North/South perspective. Antipode 34(4). |
| Rankin, K. 2001. Governing Development: Neoliberalism, Microcredit, and Rational Economic Woman. Economy and Society 30(1): 18-37. |
| Rankin, K. 2001. Planning and the Politics of Social Needs: Lessons from Financial Market Regulation in Nepal. International Planning Studies (1): 89-102. Abstract: International Planning Studies. |
| Teaching (2011-2012) |
| PLA 1101 Planning History, Theory, Practice JPG 1615 Planning the Social Economy JPG 1509 Feminism, Postcoloniality and Development |
