Rob Shields D.Phil.

Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair and Professor of Human Geography Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Studies and Dept. of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada.

Contact: rshields (one word) -at- ualberta -dot- ca

 

Founding Editor, Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces and Curb Planning Magazine (2012-18).

 

The Henry Marshall Tory Chair is named for the first President of the University 1908-1929, first President of the National Research Council of Canada 1928-1935, and first President of Carleton College 1942-1947, now Carleton University, where I also both studied and taught.

 

 

Teaching: University of Alberta.

I am on sabbatical and research terms in the 2024-25 academic year. My recent teaching includes:

Cities and Suburbs SOC 445/585 Jan-Apr 2024

Human Dimensions of Environmental Change HGEO 452/552 Jan-Apr 2024

 

Links to Current Projects:

• Spatial Justice Forthcoming. Social Spatialisation and Spatial Justice . March 27-28 2024, University of Alberta.

• Eeyou Istchee political geographies and energy infrastructure

• Climate Change, ecological myth-keeping: Indigneous and settler futures,

• Visual ethnographies, cultures and Visualicities

• UArctic Thematic Network on Local-Scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience

Further Links

• Curriculum Vitae
• Intermedia Research Studio, Sociology, Univ. of Alberta
• Space and Culture Research & Reading Group Facebook
• Space and Culture Online
• Espaces et Sociétés journal
• Theory Culture and Society journal
• Social Spatialization
• Cultural Topology / Topological Culture
• Henri Lefebvre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sample of Recent Work: see our Research Archive, Researchgate.net and Scribd.com for other works. Complete list in cv.

 

Overview of my past work in Work of Arts (2005).

 

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