Housing and the Politics of Urban Development
“Gift-Giving in the Neoliberal City: Polanyi’s Substantivism and the Exchange of Density for Affordable Housing in Vancouver,” Environment and Planning A, 2021.
“Giving Back to get Ahead: Altruism as a Developer Strategy of Accumulation through Affordable Housing Policy in Toronto and Vancouver,” Geoforum, 2018.
Gentrification
“‘Ethical’ Gentrification as a Pre-Emptive Strategy: Social Enterprise, Restaurants and Resistance to Neighborhood Change in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,” in A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power and Resistance in the City, edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato and Joshua Sbicca, New York University Press, 2020.
“Omnivorous Gentrification: Restaurant Reviews and Neighborhood Change in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver,” City & Community, 2014.
– Winner, Student Paper Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association (2015)
“Foodies Remaking Cities,” (with Amy Hanser) Contexts, 2014.
Theory