Gilbert, Liette
Associate Professor, Associate Dean and PhD Program Coordinator
BSc (Landscape Architecture) Montreal, MA (Urban Planning), PhD (Urban Planning) UCLA
Email: gilbertl@yorku.ca
Areas of Academic Interest
- Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
- Multicultural Cities and Identities;
- North American Border Politics
- Politics of Difference in the City;
- Media Representations of Immigration and Multiculturalism;
- Social Justice
- Urban and Environmental Politics
- Planning, Design and Urbanism;
- Exurban Growth and Environmental Conservation;
- Political Ecology of Landscapes;
- Environmental Justice
My research examines the oppositional struggles and alternative narratives or claims voiced by marginalized people as a form of resistance and expressions of citizenships.
My teaching and research are anchored in a critical analysis of the conventional and marginalizing processes of urban development. My interest in studying the political economy of the built environment is particularly focused on the spatial representations of economic domination in relation to the changing forms of social organizations and the implications for equity, justice and democratic participation in multicultural societies. My study of the multicultural and urban discourses and practices is based on a theoretical and methodological approach considering the incongruities between ideologies, policies and everyday practices.
Major research projects
- Unlikely Allies: Citizen Planning and Environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine
(SSHRC Standard Research Grant with Gerda R. Wekerle (PI) and L. Anders Sandberg, 2002-2006)
Academic Affiliations
- Faculty Member, CITY Institute, York University
- Scholar, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
- Fellow, CERLAC- Centre for Research of Latin America and the Caribbean, York University
- Affiliate Member, CERIS-Centre of Excellence for Research and Immigration and Settlement, Domain 1: Citizenship, Social, Cultural and Civic Integration
Professional Affiliations
Select publications
On Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
Gilbert L. 2009 Immigration as Local Politics: Rebordering Immigration and Multiculturalism through Deterrence and Incapacitation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(1): 26-42.
Gilbert L. and Mustafa Dikeç 2008 Right to the City and Politics of Citizenship IN Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and Radical Politics edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom and Christian Schmid. New York: Routledge. 250-263.
Gilbert, L. and Leela Viswanathan 2007 Covering Multiculturalism: Popular Images and the Politics of a Nation as reflected on the covers of Maclean's and L’Actualié. Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal. 39(3):189-205.
Gilbert L. 2007 Legitimizing Neoliberalism rather than Equality: Canadian Multiculturalism in the Current Reality of North America, Norteamérica Revista Académica del CISAN-UNAM. 2(1): 11-35.
Wood, Patricia and L. Gilbert 2005. Multiculturalism in Canada: Alternative Vision, Accidental Discourse, Urban Practice. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29(3): 679-691.
Gilbert, L. 2005. Resistance in the Neoliberal City: Tar Angel and the journey from immigrant to citizen, City 9(1): 23-33.
Gilbert, L. 2006 Négocier la diversité: tensions entre discourse nationaux et pratiques urbaines en Amérique du Nord IN Les métropoles au défi de la diversité culturelle edited by Bernard Jouve and Alain G. Gagnon. Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble. 177-192.
Gilbert, L. 2004 Nuevas consideraciones sobre el pluralismo (en) y la planificación: planificación diferenciada e ideologia multicultural, politicas y praticas en el Canadá (Reconsidering pluralism and (in) Planning: Differentiated Planning and Multicultural Ideology, Policy and Practices in Canada). Anuario de Espacios Urbanos: Historia, Cultural, Diseño 2004 edited by Jorge Morales Moreno. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco.203-214.
Gilbert, Liette. 2004. Al norte de México, al norte de Estados Unidos: Diferencias en la inmigracíon, el multiculturalism y la ciudadaniía en Canadá” (North from Mexico: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Canada) IN Fronteras en America del Norte edited by Alejandro Mercado Celis and Elizabeth Gutiérrez Romero. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales en America del Norte/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. 25-42.
Gilbert, L. and Catherine Phillips 2003 Practices of Urban Environmental Citizenships: Rights to the City and Rights to Nature in Toronto" Citizenship Studies 7(3): 313-330.
On Urban and Environmental Politics
Wekerle, Gerda R., L. Anders Sandberg and Liette Gilbert (forthcoming) Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale IN Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale edited by Rianne Mahon and Roger Keil. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Wekerle, Gerda R., L. Anders Sandberg and Liette Gilbert (forthcoming) Challenging Sprawl, Preserving Nature: Reframing Environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine IN Environmental Conflicts and Democracy in Canada. Edited by Laurie Adkin. University of British Columbia.
Gilbert, Liette, Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg 2009 Building Bioregional Citizenship: The Case of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario, Canada. 14(5)387-401.
Gilbert, Liette, L. Anders Sandberg and Gerda R. Wekerle. 2008. Una mirada al prisma biorregional: construcción de vivienda y conservación de la naturaleza en la Gran Región de Toronto (Through the Bioregional Prism: Building Home and Conserving Nature in the Greater Toronto Region) IN Norte América: Construccíon de Espacios Regionales edited by Alejandro Mercado Celis, Graciela Martinez-Zalce and Miriam Alfie Cohen. México: Eón Ediciones, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa: 125-155.
Wekerle, Gerda R., L. Anders Sandberg, Liette Gilbert and Matthew Binstock. 2007. Nature as a Cornerstone of Growth: Regional and Ecosystems Planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (with). Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 16(1): 20-38.
Gilbert, Liette. 2006. Les différentes natures de la péri-urbanisation IN La ville insoutenable edited by Augustin Berque, Philippe Bonnin, and Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin. Paris : Bélin. 183-193.
Gilbert, Liette, Gerda R. Wekerle and L. Anders Sandberg. 2005. "Local Responses to Development Pressures: Conflictual Politics of Sprawl and Environmental Conservation" Cahiers de Géographie du Québec. 49(138) : 377-392. 2005.
Gilbert, Liette. 2004. "At the Core and on the Edge: Justice Discourses in Metropolitan Toronto" Space and Polity, (Special Issue on Urbanization of Justice Movements), 8(20): 245-260.
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