SUSAN M. RUDDICK
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (1992)
M.A. McGill University, (1979)
B.E.S. University of Waterloo (1976)
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
University of Toronto
Room 5040, Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
phone: (416) 978-1589
fax: (416) 978-6729
e-mail: ruddick@geog.utoronto.ca
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Research Interests
Social
theory and the social construction of the child
Public
space and the public sphere
Social
reproduction, social policy and social identity
Urban
political economy, governmentality
Substantive
focus: North America and Europe, youth, children and marginalized groups
Select
Publications
Books
Ruddick, S. (1996) Young and Homeless in Hollywood.
Mapping Social Identities. London and New York, Routledge. 265 pages.
Davis, Hiatt, Kennedy, Ruddick, Sprinker (eds.)
(1990) Fire in the Hearth: The Radical Politics of Place in America London,
New York: Verso
Articles
/ Book Chapters
Ruddick, S. (forthcoming) “At the Horizons of the Subject: Neo-liberalism, Neo-conservatism and the Rights of the Child. Part One: From ‘knowing' fetus to ‘confused' child” Gender, Place and Culture
Ruddick, S. (forthcoming) “At the Horizons of the Subject: Neo-liberalism, Neo-conservatism and the Rights of the Child. Part Two: Parent, Caregiver, State” Gender, Place and Culture
Desbiens, C. and S. Ruddick (forthcoming) Guest Editorial: Speaking of Geography: Language, Power and the Spaces of Anglo-Saxon Hegemony Society and Space
Ruddick, S. (2006) “ Abnormal , the ‘new normal,' and destabilizing discourses of rights” Public Culture Winter 18:1
Ruddick, S. (2004) “Domesticating Monsters: Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City” Loretta Lees (editor) The Emancipatory City London: Sage Pages 23-39
Ruddick, S. (2004) “Activist Geographies”. Paul Cloke, Phil Crang, Mark Goodwin (Eds.) Envisioning Human Geographies. Arnold/Hodder, 229-246
Ruddick, S. ( 2003) "The Politics of Aging: Globalization and the Restructuring of Youth and Childhood” Antipode 35:2, (March) 334 - 362
Ruddick, S. (2002) “ Metamorphoses Revisited: Restricted Discourses of Citizenship” In Joe Hermer (ed.) Disorderly People: The Safe Streets Act and the Policing of Neo-Conservatism, Fernwood Press. Pages 55-65.
Teaching
JPG
1506 - State, Space and Difference
JPG
1804 - Geography, Space and Power: Understanding Spatiality
PLA
1503 - Planning and Social Policy
GGR
452 - Space, Power and Geography:
Understanding Spatiality
Ph.D. Students
Luisa Veronis --
Diversity within Diversity. Transnational Networks and Latin American
Migrants in Toronto
Deborah
Cowen
-- "Geographies of Intimate Citizenship"
Anne Wu –
Cartographies of Home: Taiwanese Women in Toronto
Kate
Swanson
– Childhood,
Globalization, Migration: Street Children in Quito
Adam Weaver -- The Macdonaldization of the Cruise Industry
Affiliations
Association of American Geographers
Canadian Association of Geographers