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Vera Chouinard
Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Office: General Science Building, Rm 320
Tel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 23518
Fax: (905) 546-0463
Email: chouinar@mcmaster.ca

 

Vera Chouinard

Vera Chouinard

"Achieving international distinction for creativity, innovation and excellence in geographical, geological and environmental education, research and outreach."

Research Interests

  • Theories of the state and law
  • Feminist, materialist,  'post-structuralist', and postmodern perspectives and their implications for geographic research (conceptual, methodological, substantive and political)
  • Urban policy, policy struggles and social consequences.
  • Methodologies of historical research in human geography
  • Explanation of trends in Canadian social housing policy
  • Urban social movements
  • Historical development of cities and urban planning
  • Development and regulation of Ontario's community legal clinics
  • The role of class and gender in urban politics and legal struggles
  • Feminist geography:  concepts, methods and applied research
  • Disability in the Global South
  • Impacts of economic restructuring on diverse women in Canadian northern communities
  • the Occupy Movement

 

Updated:October 29, 2012

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