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“Masculinities and Markets” Symposium in Antipode

  • by Leslie
  • Posted on August 20, 2018
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I’m excited to be a part of this great symposium on Brenda Parker’s 2017 book “Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee.”

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The politics of citation in gentrification research

  • by Leslie
  • Posted on March 23, 2018March 23, 2018
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“Gentrification work has been largely repetitive, consistently focused on the same debates, and citing the same authors in a closed citation loop that has us running in circles without greater understanding. These standards ignore gender and tend to under-cite women who write about gentrification.”

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New paper! Undecidability and the urban

  • by Leslie
  • Posted on October 20, 2017
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Screen capture of the title page of the article entitled Undecidability and the Urban.

My first paper co-authored with Dr. Heather McLean is here and it’s open access from ACME.

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Dr. Heather McLean on Roundhouse Radio

  • by Leslie
  • Posted on September 5, 2017
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Selfie of Heather McLean (a white woman with long curly reddish hair wearing a brown leather-type jacket on a city street)).

Heather McLean, aka Toby Sharp, aka my co-conspirator as one of urban theory’s dirty sweaty little others, speaks with Minelle Mahtani on Roundhouse Radio about her remarkable research on “cultural regeneration,” feminist arts collectives, feminist world making, drag kinging, and more.

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Gender & Gentrification: New book by Winifred Curran

  • by Leslie
  • Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017
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White woman in a black sundress holds a baby stroller and dog on leash while looking in the window of a jewelry store called Lavishly.

Dr. Win Curran’s new book from Routledge’s “Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City” series has been hotly anticipated by many of us! It comes out September 5.

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