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: Urbicide, Camps & Spatial Injustices SOC 445/585 Jan-Apr 2026

Human Dimensions of Environmental Change: Social Aspects of Climate Warming HGEO 452/552 Jan-Apr 2026

 

Links to Current Projects:

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

  • Eeyou Istchee political geographies and energy infrastructure

  • Ecological myth-keeping: Indigneous and settler futures,

  • Visual ethnographies, cultures and Visualicities

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

 

 

City-Regions in Context Demystifying Deleuze Rereading Jean François Lyotard Strip-Appeal What is a City Places on the Margin Lefebvre Love & Struggle Cultures of Internet Lifestyle Shopping Building Tomorrow Ecologies of AffectThe Virtual Spatial Questions 2013CURB Magazine for planners Space and Culture After Ice


 

 

Archived Work: see our Research Archives, Researchgate.net and Scribd.com for other works.

 

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

 

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