Professor
Credentials
PhD History, Duke University
Research Keywords
Urban politics; Settler Colonialism; Infrastructure; Political Ecology; Cultural Geographies.
Contact Information
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
416 736 2100
Research Projects
1. Modalities of Mobility: a SSHRC-IG-funded project looking at the use, representation and governance of public transportation spaces through the examination of daily activities, community advocacy, formal governance and representation in film, in Canada, Spain and India
2. Train stations as multi-species shared spaces, with Suzanne MacDonald (Psychology/Biology)
3. ‘Data’ in context: Historical and Political Geographies of First Nations’ stewardship on Lake Nipigon: a SSHRC-IDG-funded project to support the Biijitiwaabik Zaaging Anishnaabek First Nation and water scientists to contextualise their water monitoring work on Lake Nipigon with archival and oral history, with Jenny Korosi and Josh Thienpont (EUC), Rob Stewart (Lakehead) and Dale Hardy (BZA FN).
4. Toronto the Better: research project on comparative urban governance, with Alexandra Flynn, Allard School of Law, UBC
Research Output
Patricia Burke Wood and David A. Rossiter, Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia, UBC Press, 2022
Mary Gilmartin, Patricia Burke Wood and Cian O’Callaghan, Mobility and Citizenship in the Era of Brexit and Trump, Bristol University/Policy Press, 2018.
Citizenship, Activism and the City: The Invisible and the Impossible, Routledge. 2017.
“Constitutionalism and the Intentionality of Cities,” in Richard Albert, Nathalie Des Rosiers, and Alexandra Flynn, eds. The Past, Present and Future of the Canadian City: Lessons from History, Practice, and the World, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 285-302.
“The Municipal Role in Transportation Governance,” Invited contribution to IMFG Who Does What series, No. 6 / 2023: Who Does What: The Municipal Role in Transportation, April 2023.
Brittany Andrew-Amofah, Alexandra Flynn and Patricia Wood, “A New Agenda For Local Democracy: Building Just, Inclusive and Participatory Cities,” Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance, IMFG papers on municipal finance and governance, No. 60, 2022.
Patricia Wood and David A. Rossiter, “The Geography of the Crown: Reflections on Mikisew Cree and Williams Lake,” Supreme Court Law Review 94: 187-206. 2020.
“How Should We Study Racial Segregation?” Dialogues in Human Geography, 9:3, 363-365, 2019.
“Significance of Horses: Control Legislation and Impact on Irish Travellers,” Society & Animals 27:5-6, 487-504, 2019.
Patricia Wood and Mary Gilmartin, “Irish Enough: Changing Narratives of Citizenship and National Identity in the context of Brexit,” with Mary Gilmartin, Space and Polity, special issue on Brexit Geographies, 22:2, 224-237, 2018.
“‘The World Needs More Canada’: a brief historical geography of the liberal democracy we think we are,” Historical Geography, special discussion section on Canada at 150, 45: 110-113, 2018.
“Travellers, Land Management and the Political Ecology of Social Marginalisation,” Irish Geography, 50:1, 59-80, 2017.
Courses
| Course Code | Title |
|---|---|
| GEOG 5208 | Doctoral Seminar in Critical Human Geography |