The papers on this panel explore the relationship between urban politics and long-term political change in Canada and the United States. Inspired by American Political Development and related approaches, these papers seek to explain how urban changes both shape and reflect larger processes of political development at the national scale. The panelists will explore the urban dimensions of important political changes, ranging from party system shifts to the rise of the carceral state, in Canada and the United States.
Moderator: Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Black Urban Citizenship and the Development of American Urban Orders Kimberley Johnson, New York University
Forging the Urban Carceral State Timothy Weaver, SUNY - Albany
Urban Issues and Provincial Policy Agendas in Canada Jack Lucas, University of Calgary
Putting Politics in Its Place: Urbanization and the City in Canadian Political Development Zack Taylor, Western University; Jack Lucas, University of Calgary
Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario
I study urban political economy, regional governance and planning, and the intersection of space and political behaviour. I dabble in planning history.
