


1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. Adkin (ed.) Environmental Conflicts and Democracy in Canada. Challenging Sprawl, Preserving Nature: Reframing Environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. Keil (eds.) Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale. Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, pp. Jouve(eds.) Facing Cultural Diversity: Cities Under Stress. Negotiating Diversity: Tensions between National Discourses and Urban Practices in North America. Hussein (ed.) The Impacts of NAFTA on North America. North American Anti-Immigration Rhetorics: Continental Circulation and Global Resonance of Discursive Integration. Mexico City: CISAN- Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, Uiversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, pp. Veréa (ed.) Antiimigrant sentiments, actions and policies in North America and the European Union. Constitutional Failure or Anti-Immigrant Success? Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Sentiments in the United States. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, pp. Inda (eds.) Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader. Immigration as Local Politics: Rebordering Immigration through Deterrence and Incapacitation. The Moraine Battles: Nature, Sprawl, and Conservation in the Toronto Region. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Entanglements of Periphery and Informality in Mexico City. Especialidades: Revista de temas contemporaneous sobre lugares, politica y cultural. Precarization and Urban Growth in Metropolitan Mexico City. Uneven state formalization on peri-urban housing production in Hanoi and Mexico City: Comparative reflections from the global South. Mexico City: Elusive suburbs, ubiquitous peripheries. Research Interests: Immigration Multiculturalism Citizenship Urban Politics Social Justice. Gilbert's interest in studying the social and 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. Both her teaching and research are anchored in a critical analysis of the conventional and marginalizing processes of urban development. Her research examines the oppositional struggles and alternative narratives or claims voiced by marginalized people as a form of resistance and expressions of citizenships. Title/Position: Graduate Program Director and Professorĭepartment/Faculty/Institution: Faculty of Environmental Studies, York Universityĭegree(s)/School(s): PhD Urban Planning/University of California Los Angeles, MA Urban Planning/University of California Los Angeles, BAP Landscape Architecture/Universite de MontrealĮ-mail: Projects: C2: North America Research Cluster.īackground: Liette Gilbert's research interests are articulated around two poles: immigration, multiculturalism and citizenship (multicultural cities and identities politics of difference in the city neoliberalisation of immigration policy social justice, media representations of immigration and multiculturalism, and North American border politics) and urban and environmental politics (planning, design and urbanism exurban growth and environmental conservation political ecology of landscapes and environmental justice).
