Emily Gilbert, PhD
Director, Canadian Studies Program Graduate Program in Geography
University College, room B301 University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Phone (416) 978 0751
Fax (416) 971 2027
Welcome! I am the Director of the Canadian Studies Program at University College, and a member of the Graduate Program of the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. My current research deals with questions relating to citizenship, security, migration, borders, nation-states, globalization, monetary organization, and governance. I am engaged in two primary research projects. The first is an examination of battlefield compensation that is being made in cases of inadvertent death, injury and property damage. These practices are interesting in and of themselves, but I also have a broader concern for how war restructures the ways that lives are valued (or not), from claims made in response to acts of terrorism, to compensation for military veterans. A second line of inquiry is on the changing politics of the Canada-US border. I examine the ways that border risks--economic and social--are being used to discipline behaviour and promote new forms of citizenship practice. The impact on migration and mobility is of particular concern. Another area of focus is on transnational currency arrangements, from proposals for monetary union between Canada and the US, to global initiatives on monetary regionalism. In this work I draw upon a range of cultural and political theories and methodologies to crticially interrogate the nature of money--and especially its spatial organization. This research builds upon some of my earlier work on the historical formation of national currencies, especially in Canada. Other, ongoing side research examines visual and literary narratives, with a particular focus on urban and wilderness representations of Canadian national identity.
TEACHING
UNI101Y: Citizenship in the Canadian City (Winter 2012) -- part of the exciting new initiative called UC One
UNI320Y: Canadian Questions: Issues and Debates (Fall 2011), taught with Professor Siobhan O'Flynn
GGR1714H: Cultural and Critical Geographies (Winter 2012)
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Emily Gilbert (2012) "The militarization of climate change" ACME 11(1). (forthcoming)
Emily Gilbert (2012) “Borders and Security: The Thickening of North American Relations” in Jeffrey Ayers and Laura Macdonald, ed. North America in Question; Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (forthcoming)
Emily Gilbert (2011) “Follow the thing: credit” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Emily Gilbert (2011) “Globalization” in John Agnew and Jim Duncan, ed. Companion to Human Geography; Blackwell. Solicited.
Emily Gilbert (2011) "Eye to Eye: Biometrics and the Body Politic" in Fraser MacDonald, Klaus Dodds and Rachel Hughes, ed. Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture; IB Tauris.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “Race, Money and Risk: Future Directions in Critical Geopolitics” in GeoJournal 75(4): 319-320.
Emily Gilbert (2010) "Geographic Insights into Political Identity" in Colin Flint, ed., Political Geography volume of the International Studies Association Compendium.
Emily Gilbert (2009) "Liberalism" in Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Ashgate.
Emily Gilbert (2009) “Race, money and risk: future directions in critical geopolitics” GeoJournal, special issue edited by Laura Jones and Daniel Sage on “New Directions in Critical Geopolitics.” Online edition available.
Emily Gilbert (2008) The Implications of a Perimeter Approach to Security for Canadian Border and Immigration Practices; Report for the Metropolis Project.
Emily Gilbert (2008) "Banal Neoimperialism and the Territorial Reconfiguration of Money" Political Geography.
Emily Gilbert (2008) "Beyond Survival? Wilderness and Canadian National Identity into the Twentieth Century" British Journal of Canadian Studies.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. (2008) War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge. table of contents
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2008) "Introduction: The Politics of War, Citizenship, Territory" in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2008) "Citizenship in the 'Homeland': Families at War?" in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.
Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2008) "Fear and the Familial in the U.S. War on Terror" in Rachel Pain, Susan J. Smith, Stephen Graham, ed. Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life; Aldershot: Ashgate.
Emily Gilbert (2007) "Leaky Borders and Solid Citizens: Governing Security, Prosperity and Quality of Life in a North American Partnership" Antipode 39(1): 77-98 .
Emily Gilbert (2007) "Money, Citizenship, Territoriality and the Proposals for North American Monetary Union" Political Geography 26(2): 141-158.
Emily Gilbert (2006) "Money" (2,500 words) in Austin Harrington, Barbara Marshall, Hans-Peter Muller, ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory; London: Routledge. (Solicited)
Emily Gilbert (2006) "Comment" on Brenda Chalfin's "Global customs regimes and the traffic in sovereignty: enlarging the anthropology of the state" Current Anthropology 47(2): 266. (Solicited)
Emily Gilbert (2005) "What is at Stake in the NAMU Debates? A Review of the Arguments for and Against North American Monetary Union" International Journal of Canadian Studies: 161-184.
Emily Gilbert (2005) "The Inevitability of Integration? Neoliberal Discourse and the Proposals for a New North American Economic Space after September 11," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(1): 202-222. PdF copy
Emily Gilbert (2005) "Common Cents: Situating Money in Time and Space," Economy and Society 34(3): 356-387.
Emily Gilbert (2004) entries on "Currency" (900 words), "Royal Canadian Mint" (250 words), "Metric Conversion" (250 words), "Canada Savings Bonds" (175 words) in Gerald Hallowell, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Toronto: Oxford University Press. (Solicited.)
Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. (1999) Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies; London and New York: Routledge.
Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner (1999) "Introduction: Nation-States and Money: Historical Contexts, Interdisciplinary Perspectives" in Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies; London and New York: Routledge: 1-21.
Emily Gilbert (1999) "Forging a National Currency: Money, State-Making and Nation-Building in Canada" in Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies; London and New York: Routledge: 25-46.
Interview with Douglas Quan, Postmedia, on cross-border law enforcement
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Shared+border+patrol+plan+raises+sovereignty+issues/6636603/story.html
Interview with Carl Meyer, Embassy Magazine, on cross-border law enforcement http://www.embassymag.ca/page/printpage/crossborder-05-02-2012
Emily Gilbert (2012) "Harper's border deal expands the national security state" Rabble, February 1, 2012 http://rabble.ca/news/2012/02/harpers-border-deal-expands-national-security-state
Emily Gilbert (2011) “At war with the climate” The Mark, May 9, 2011
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/5085-at-war-with-the-climate
Emily Gilbert (2011) “The North American Security Perimeter should be an election issue” Rabble, April 6, 2011 http://rabble.ca/news/2011/04/north-american-security-perimeter-should-be-election-issue-0
Interview with Carl Meyer, Embassy Magazine, on the Canada-US border agreement: http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/perimeter-02-01-2012
Interview with Tim Harper, The Toronto Star, on Canada-US relations: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/978554--tim-harper-canada-u-s-relations-out-of-sight-out-of-mind
Interview with Ryerson journalism students on Occupy Toronto
http://www.ryersonian.ca/article/17391/
Interview with Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, on the Canada-US border: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/international/article/144150--stricter-u-s-rules-prompt-more-border-searches-report
Interview with Andrew Mitrovica, University of Toronto Magazine, on the Canada's place in the world: http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/foreign-policy-canada-place-in-the-world-21st-century/
RECENT
RESEARCH
PRESENTATIONS
Video files of the Beyond the Border conference are available here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace
Emily Gilbert (2012) "Beyond the Border," Panel of the University of Toronto, co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies program, University College, and the Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Studies
Emily Gilbert (2011) "Borders and Security in North America," Bi-annual meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Ottawa, November.
Emily Gilbert (2011) “Beyond the Border: North American Perimeter Security,” York University, Critical Border Studies Speakers Series, November.
Emily Gilbert (2011) “The Cost of War: Cash, Compensation and Contemporary Conflict,” York University, Department of Geography, Ocotber.
Emily Gilbert (2011) “The Calculation of Value and the Management of Contingency” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April.
Emily Gilbert (2011) “Militarization and Climate Change” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “Security, Labour Mobility and Human Rights” Paper Presentation at the SSHRC Workshop on Liberating Temporariness, York University, Toronto, ON, December.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “The Cost of War: Cash, Compensation and Contemporary Conflict” Senior Common Room, University College, University of Toronto, November.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “Risky business: geographies of finance, security and conflict” International Studies Association at the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, June.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “The financialization of the battlefield: cash, compensation and conflict” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “Borders and Security: The Thickening of North American Relations.” Paper presented at the North American in Question workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, March.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “The militarization of climate change” Paper Presentation at the York Centre for International Security Studies, Toronto, February, 2010.
Emily Gilbert (2010) “National border or regional perimeter? Crisis and opportunity in Canada-US border politics” Paper presented at the Fulbright Conference on Reimagining the Canada-United States Border: Designing Public Policy for an Uncertain Future; Ottawa, January.
Emily Gilbert (2009) “From Intervention to Incorporation: Terrorism, Security and Geopolitics in the South Pacific,” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas, NV. March.
Emily Gilbert (2009) “Security, Migration, Labour Mobility, and Economic Restructuring: Views from Australia and North America” Paper Presentation, Department of Geography, The University of Auckland, NZ. February.
Emily Gilbert (2009) “Performativity and Non-Representational Theory” Panel Presentation, Department of Geography, The University of Auckland, NZ. February.
Emily Gilbert (2009) “Cultural Geography and Urban Change—Beyond the Florida Thesis” Panel Presentation, Department of Geography, The University of Auckland, NZ. February.
Emily Gilbert (2009) “Security, Labour Mobility, and Human Rights,” Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Australia. January.
Emily Gilbert (2008) “Borders, Security, Geopolitics: Re-mapping Social Citizenship,” Paper Presentation, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Newcastle, August.
Emily Gilbert (2008) “The Politics of Sovereignty and the Canadian Nation-State,” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Boston, MA. April.
Emily Gilbert (2008) “Disaster, Risk, and North American Integration,” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA. March. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2008) “What are the implications of a perimeter approach to security for Canadian border and immigration practices?” Paper solicited and presented to the Metropolis Project seminar on “Justice, Policing and Security,” Ottawa, Ontario. February. Invited.Emily Gilbert (2007) “Eye to Eye: Biometrics, the Observer, the Observed, and the Body Politic” Paper Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April.
Emily Gilbert (2007) Panelist: Banal Neoimperialism. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2007) Panelist: Relocating Nationalism: Geography and the Reproduction of the Nation. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April. Invited.
Emily Gilbert (2007) “Citizens and Security in Fortress North America” AMEC annual conference. Mexico City. February.
Emily Gilbert (2006) "Risk, Vulnerability and Geopolitical Relations in the 'North American Community' in the Wake of 9/11." Invited speaker to the Conference on The Future of Diasasters in a Globalizing World, The Third Annual Magrann Research Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. April, 2006.
Emily Gilbert (2006) "Beyond survival: wilderness and Canadian national identity into the 21st century." Invited speaker to the Wilderness Conference, British Association of Canadian Studies, Cambridge University, UK. April, 2006
Emily Gilbert (2005) "Border Risks and New Forms of Citizenship Practice." Invited speaker to the workshop "After Neo-Liberalism? Consequences for Citizenship" organized by Jane Jenson, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. November, 2005
Emily Gilbert (2005) "Biopolitics and the Security and Prosperity Agreement of North America." Invited speaker to the Geospectives seminar series, Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. October, 2005.
SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2011-2014): The Costs of War: Cash, Compensation and Contemporary Conflict ($71,593.00)
SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2005-2008) Money, Citizenship and the Nation-State: Canadian Currency Concerns in the early 20th Century and the Turn of the Millennium ($44,471.00 )
SSHRC Institutional Grant (2005-2007) The Idea of the "Public" and the Royal Commission on Banking and Currency of 1933 -- research at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa ($1,450.00)
PhD Students
Ayesha Basit (Committee Member)
Simone Browne (Examining Committee--Completed)
Caroline Cormier (Supervisor)
Deborah Cowen (Committe Member--Completed)
Martin Danyluk (Committee Member)
Emily Eaton (Committee Member--Completed)
Melissa Fong (Committee Member)
Lisa Freeman (Committee Member)
Glenna Harris (Supervisor--Competed)
Caitlin Henry (Committee Member)
Carrianne Leung (Committee Member--Completed)
Vanessa Mathews (Committee Member--Completed)
Katie Mazer (Committee Member)
Roger Picton (Committee Member--Competed)
Eleanor Rae (Committee Member)
Robert Ramsay (Committee Member)
Emily Reid-Musson (Committee Member)
David Seitz (Committee Member)
Amy Siciliano (Committee Member--Completed)
Lindsay Stephens (Committee Member--Completed)
Brett Story (Committee Member)
Laura Taylor (Committee Member--Completed)
Patrick Vitale (Committee Member)
Chin-Yen Anne Wu (Committee Member--Completed)
MA Students
Nancy Worth (Supervisor--Completed)
Robert Ramsay (Supervisor--Completed)
Caroline Cormier (Supervisor--Completed)
Corey Ponder (Supervisor--Completed)
Katia Snukal (Supervisor-- )
Victor Short (Co-Supervisor--)
Raneem Azzam (Examiner)
Matt Smith (Examiner)
4th Year Undergraduate Research Papers
Brandon Bailey (Supervisor)
Corey Jung (Supervisor)
Melissa Tarsitano (Supervisor)
David Berkal (Supervisor--Completed 2011)
Kimberly Elias (Supervisor--Completed 2011)
Michellene Beckett (Supervisor--Completed 2005)
Christine Bonner (Supervisor--Completed 2006)
Tim Cowl (Supervisor--Completed 2004)
Lori-Beth Hallock (Supervisor--Completed 2005)
Jee Hyun Kim (Supervisor--Completed 2007)
David Meyer (Supervisor--Completed 2006)
Erin Valentine (Supervisor--completed 2003)
Kevin Yepson (Supervisor--completed 2004)