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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Environmental Sociology
• Urban Sociology

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Environment and Society
• Urban Sociology and Collective Behaviour

Affiliations

• Member of Editorial Board (Science and Medicine Section), Sociology Compass (2007-2008)
• Referee, Essay competition for Junior Scholars, Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research/Blackwell Publishers), 2006.
• National Advisory Group, Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre (2004-2008)

Awards & Grants

• Co-applicant for a SSHRC MCRI grant on the topic "Cultural Work and Infrastructure in the Creative Economy" $1.5 million.
• 2000 "The Global Entertainment Economy", Trends Project Grant, Globalization, Government of Canada Policy Research Secretariat/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $5,000.
• Travel Award, Department of Social Sciences. $500.

Publications

• 2010 "The emergence model of environment and society." In Michael R. Redclift and Graham Woodgate (eds.), The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Second Edition (Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar), pp. 164-78
• 2010 "Ethnic precincts and neo-bohemias: the future of retail and leisure 'contact zones' in the inclusive city." In Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Mejgan Massoumi, Blair A. Ruble, Per Subiros and Allison M. Garland (eds.), Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide (Washington, D.C. & Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The John Hopkins University Press), pp. 77-97
• 2010 "Themed Environments" (pp. 805-9); "Urban Entertainment Destination" (pp. 868-71). In Ray Hutchison (ed.), Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE).
• Environmental Sociology [2nd revised edition] (London & New York: Routledge, 2006).
• 2007 "From Fantasy City to Creative City." In Greg Richards and Julie Wilson (eds), Tourism, Creativity, Development (London: Routledge), pp. 48-56.
• 2003 "Branding, the Global Entertainment Economy and Urban Place Building: Introduction to the Symposium on Branding, the Entertainment Economy and Urban Place Building." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27 (2): 352-60.