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Lawrence D. Berg

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Professor, Critical Human Geography

Degrees

• BA (distinction, UVic)
• MA (UVic)
• DPhil (Waikato)

Research Interests

My research concentrates on three primary themes: 1) Neoliberalism and Geographies of Academic Knowledge Production, 2) Place and the Politics of Identity, and 3) Cultural Safety in Healthcare for Urban Aboriginal People.

Recent Research Funding

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Aid to Scholarly Journals grant ($75,340.00)  ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, November 2011 – November 2014 (Principal Investigator).
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research ($404,571.00)  “Establishing cultural safety and effecting organizational change for aboriginal healthcare in the urban centres of the Okanagan Valley.” (Co-Principal Investigator with Rachelle Hole, Mike Evans and Joan Bottorff). October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2012.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Community-University Research Alliance Grant ($1,000,000.00)  “Climate Justice in British Columbia”. (Co-Investigator) March 2009.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Aid to Scholarly Journals grant ($58,500.00)  “ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, November 2008 – November 2011 (Principal Investigator).
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research ($1,856,000.00) “Disabilities Health Research Network” (Principal Investigator). April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2010.
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Urban Aboriginal Health Development Grant ($48,000.00)  “From planning to practice: Establishing cultural safety and effecting organizational change for aboriginal healthcare.” (Co-Principal Investigator with Rachelle Hole, Mike Evans and Joan Bottorff).  January 2007- January 2008.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Aid to Open-Access Journals Grant Fund ($13,600.00).  ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (Principal Investigator).  October 2007 – October 2008.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Grant ($25,769.00).  "Historical Geographies of Whiteness in the Okanagan Valley, 1890-1940",  (Principal Investigator) April 2004 – March 2008.
• Canada Foundation for Innovation Fund Grant ($70,863.00) "Infrastructure to support development of an Applied Social Science research program"  (Principal Investigator) June 2003 – June 2008.

Selection of Publications

• Berg, L.D. 2011.  "Geography -- Neoliberalism -- White Supremacy."  Progress in Human Geography. SAGE Online FIrst, November 2011
• Berg, L.D.  2011.  "Banal Names, Neoliberalism and Landscapes of Dispossession." in The Politics of Spatial Inscription, special guest edited issue of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Reuben Rose-Redwood and Derek Alderman, eds, Volume 10(1), 13-22.
• Berg, L.D. 2010.  "Critical Human Geography."  Encyclopedia of Geography, B. Wharf, ed., Sage Publishers.
• Berg, L.D. And J. Vuolteenaho, eds, 2009.  Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming,  Ashgate.
• Berg, L.D. 2009.  “Critical Human Geography” in The Encyclopedia of Geography, B. Warf, ed.  Sage Publishers. (in press).
• Berg, L.D.  2009.  “Geographical Journals” and “Discourse Analysis” in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, eds.  Elsevier Publishing (in press).
• Evans, M., R. Hole, L.D. Berg, P. Hutchinson, and D. Sookraj. 2009.  “Common Insights, Differing Methodologies: Towards a Fusion of Indigenous Methodologies, Participatory Action Research, and White Studies in an Urban Aboriginal Research Agenda.”  Qualitative Inquiry.  15(5): 893-910.
• Gilmartin, M, and L.D. Berg. 2007. "Locating Postcolonialism". AREA. 39(1): 120-124.  
• Berg, L.D. 2006. "Hierarchical Space: Geographers and Neoliberalism." In special thematic section on Research Assessment and the Production of Geographical Knowledge, Progress in Human Geography. 30(6): 747-782.

Affiliations

• Founding editor: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (2001-2010) http://www.acme-journal.org/
• Editor-in-Chief: The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien. (July 2002 - December 2005).
• Co-Editor:  SITES: A Journal for South Pacific Cultural Studies. (1998-2001)
• Editorial Board member: The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien (2011-2014)
• Editorial Board member: Praxis (e)Press (2003- )
• Editorial Board Member: Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic Justice Press (2011- )
• Editorial Board member: The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien (2009-2011)
• Editorial Board Member: Historical Geography (2007- 2010)
• Editorial Board Member: Gender, Place and Culture (2002-2006)
• Editorial Board member: The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien (2006-2008)
• Editorial Board member: Polimetrica Publishers (2006- )
• Editorial Board member: SITES: A Journal for South Pacific Cultural Studies. (1997-1998)
• Editorial Advisor: Hidden Geographies: Undergraduates Writing to Transgress (University of Toronto), (2008 – )
• Progress Report Author, “Geographies of Identity”: Progress in Human Geography (2011-2013)
• Nominating Committee Chair: James Blaut Award, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, 2008 - 2010.
• Judge: Ralph Brown Masters Student Paper Competition, Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, 2008, 2009.
• Judge: Andrew Hill Clark Doctoral Student Paper Competition, Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, 2008, 2009.
• Judge, Robin Armstrong Memorial Prize Committee, Canadian Association of Geographers, 2009.
• Steering Committee Member: International Critical Geography Group (1997 - present)
• Moderator, Critical Geography Forum Listserv (1998 – present) http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/crit-geog-forum.html
• Member, Advisory Committee on Policy and Equity, Canada Research Chairs Secretariat, 2008.
• Board Member: Qualitative Research Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers  (2006-07)
• Board Member: Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (2006-2010)
• Advisory Committee Member: Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship, University of British Columbia (2009-2011)
• Co-Leader: Disability Health Research Network, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (British Columbia), (2005-2010)
• Member: Canadian Association of Geographers
• Member: Canadian Women and Geography Study Group, Canadian Association of Geographers
• Member: Diversity, Migration, Ethnicity and Race Study Group, Canadian Association of Geographers
• Member: Institute of British Geographers
• Member: Association of American Geographers

Teaching Portfolio

UBC Okanagan Calendar Course Descriptions >>

• Geography 359: Culture, Space and Politics (also listed in Cultural Studies)
• Geography 474: Qualitative Research Methods (Offered every second year)
• Geography 480: Advanced Seminar in Critical Geography: (also listed in Cultural Studies)
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies 501e/601e: Society, Space and Identity
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies 524G: Professional Development Seminar

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Contact

Phone: +1-250-807-9392
Fax: +1-250-807-8001
Email: Lawrence.Berg at ubc.ca

Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic Justice

Community, Culture, and Global Studies
Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
The University of British Columbia
1147 Research Road, Arts Bldg. 368-368D
Kelowna, BC, Canada,  V1V 1V7

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