Theresa Enright
Biographic Data
| ID | 1641378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theresa Enright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Enright |
| SIGNATURE | ENRIGHT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8949-2499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Assessing health equity inconsistencies in the World Health Organization’s Urban Heart initiative
This study presents disconnects between WHO's intentions and actions that followed from Urban HEART. Moving forward, it would be important to discuss goals or approaches sought, prior to any global health initiatives, whether explicitly focused on health equity or not
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization. Considering the…
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
A Platform for Art
The flourishing of transit art globally reflects a widespread belief in the power of aesthetic practices to promote infrastructural and civic revitalisation. This article analyses how transit art engages spaces and practices of publicness and how art explores ideas of mobility in Toronto. It argues that while arts are frequently deployed to reproduce status quo relations of power and to bolster elite and exclusionary forms of urbanisation, they c…
Art in transit
High-profile architecture and design, alongside integrated arts and cultural programming are now ubiquitous features of public transit networks. This article considers how and why transit-based arts and cultural programmes are proliferating globally as well as the impact of these programmes on transit and urban dynamics. Through critically analysing the discourses surrounding different transit art initiatives and the institutional structures whic…
The potential politics of the porous city
This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the "porous city," outlining three sets of contributions that porosity offers in analyzing contemporary urbanization patterns and in orienting planning, policymaking, and knowledge production. First, the porous city offers a critical epistemological lens focused on flow and relations, which supports mobile…
Probing key informants’ views of health equity within the World Health Organization’s Urban Heart initiative
To date, no studies have assessed how those involved in the World Health Organization's (WHO) work understand the concept of health equity. To fill the gap, this research poses the question, "how do Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) key informants understand the concept of health equity?", with Urban HEART being selected given the focus on health equity. To answer this question, this study undertakes synchronous elect…
The Infrastructural Imagination
Throughout Splintering Urbanism, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin draw attention to the inadequacy of conventional representational paradigms for capturing the vast networked systems comprising contemporary urban space. In their postscript, they make this claim explicit, writing that a new “spatial imaginary” is required “to support the challenges of addressing and researching splintering cities.” In this commentary, I explore this provocation, as…
Scoping review of the World Health Organization’s underlying equity discourses
Moving forward, the WHO should revaluate its conceptualization of equity and normative position, and align its work with Amartya Sen's Capabilities Approach, as it best encapsulates the broader views of the organization. Further empirical research is needed to assess the WHO interpretations and approaches to equity
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions
Urban infrastructure has appeared as a central feature in a range of commentaries on the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the imprint of the pandemic on cities and the power-laden processes through which they are being rebuilt requires an attention to the politics and governance of infrastructure. In this intervention, we understand the pandemic as a moment to rethink claims over how infrastructures work and how they might be studied. We focus on…
Beyond Comparison in Urban Politics and Policy Analysis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The gendered production of infrastructure
Over the years, many studies have documented how the negative impacts of infrastructure investments are disproportionately borne by women, the poor and racial minorities. In this paper, we focus on the ways that unequal gender dynamics are a key feature of the production of infrastructure, a topic that has received far less attention. In particular, we show how masculinity is deeply embedded in the organizational structures, employment practices,…
Locating the Commons in the Urban Commonwealth
Debate on Margaret Kohn's The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth
This interventions forum presents a debate on Margaret Kohn's The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth . Four contributors from different disciplinary backgrounds discuss and critique Kohn's book, which offers an exploration of the political in an age of modern urbanism. Building on theories of solidarism and social rights, Kohn puts forth a set of new arguments about how the city might be a more governable commonwealth. Her book lays bare so…
Transit justice as spatial justice
The provision of mass urban transit is frequently tied to agendas of social justice and equity. Yet there are persistent challenges to locating justice within urban mobility regimes. Drawing on two cases of transit activism – Free Transit Toronto and Black Lives Matter in the San Francisco Bay Area – this paper identifies three limitations to transport justice scholarship and practice, namely the theorization of mobility, space, and justice. Thes…
Cities in Global Capitalism
Book review forum - Ugo Rossi. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2017. 213 pp., references, index. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 978- 0-7456-8966-1), $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-8967-8); $18.99 electronic (ISBN 978-0- 7456-8970-8)
The Making of Grand Paris
Making of Grand Paris
The political topology of urban uprisings
This article examines the relationship between political uprising and megaproject-based global city reform in Paris and London. On the one hand, it considers the banlieue uprisings in Paris in November 2005 as an impetus for the Grand Paris renewal initiative launched in April 2007. This is compared with the large-scale reformations of space across London in advance of the 2012 Olympics as a contributing factor in the riots of August 2011. In bot…
The great wager
This article explores the dialectics of austerity and growth through contemporary urban mega-projects. In particular it considers the relationship of the Grand Paris regional development initiative to a climate of crisis. The argument put forth is that in times of fiscal stress, the state is incentivised to invest in urban services like transportation with a potential to impel economic growth. The most recent global financial crisis of 2008 bring…
Illuminating the Path to Grand Pari(s)
This article examines the architectural exhibition associated with the large-scale Grand Paris urban development project initiated in 2007 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Through a close examination of the exhibition, I argue that imaginative representation is crucial to urban transformation, here acting to justify and naturalize neoliberal reforms. While the ten international teams of architects tasked with imagining twenty-first century Pa…
Mass Transportation in the Neoliberal City
This paper examines the discourses of transportation and mobility surrounding the Grand Paris Express mass transit network announced in January 2011 as part of the broader Grand Paris urban renewal and agglomeration initiative. It argues that though Grand Paris Express has the potential to symbolically unify the Île-de-France region, and may provide much needed infrastructure to the peripheral suburbs of Paris, because of the neoliberal political…
The gendered production of infrastructure
Over the years, many studies have documented how the negative impacts of infrastructure investments are disproportionately borne by women, the poor and racial minorities. In this paper, we focus on the ways that unequal gender dynamics are a key feature of the production of infrastructure, a topic that has received far less attention. In particular, we show how masculinity is deeply embedded in the organizational structures, employment practices,…
Mass Transportation in the Neoliberal City
This paper examines the discourses of transportation and mobility surrounding the Grand Paris Express mass transit network announced in January 2011 as part of the broader Grand Paris urban renewal and agglomeration initiative. It argues that though Grand Paris Express has the potential to symbolically unify the Île-de-France region, and may provide much needed infrastructure to the peripheral suburbs of Paris, because of the neoliberal political…
Transit justice as spatial justice
The provision of mass urban transit is frequently tied to agendas of social justice and equity. Yet there are persistent challenges to locating justice within urban mobility regimes. Drawing on two cases of transit activism – Free Transit Toronto and Black Lives Matter in the San Francisco Bay Area – this paper identifies three limitations to transport justice scholarship and practice, namely the theorization of mobility, space, and justice. Thes…
The political topology of urban uprisings
This article examines the relationship between political uprising and megaproject-based global city reform in Paris and London. On the one hand, it considers the banlieue uprisings in Paris in November 2005 as an impetus for the Grand Paris renewal initiative launched in April 2007. This is compared with the large-scale reformations of space across London in advance of the 2012 Olympics as a contributing factor in the riots of August 2011. In bot…
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions
Urban infrastructure has appeared as a central feature in a range of commentaries on the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the imprint of the pandemic on cities and the power-laden processes through which they are being rebuilt requires an attention to the politics and governance of infrastructure. In this intervention, we understand the pandemic as a moment to rethink claims over how infrastructures work and how they might be studied. We focus on…
The potential politics of the porous city
This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the "porous city," outlining three sets of contributions that porosity offers in analyzing contemporary urbanization patterns and in orienting planning, policymaking, and knowledge production. First, the porous city offers a critical epistemological lens focused on flow and relations, which supports mobile…
Illuminating the Path to Grand Pari(s)
This article examines the architectural exhibition associated with the large-scale Grand Paris urban development project initiated in 2007 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Through a close examination of the exhibition, I argue that imaginative representation is crucial to urban transformation, here acting to justify and naturalize neoliberal reforms. While the ten international teams of architects tasked with imagining twenty-first century Pa…
The great wager
This article explores the dialectics of austerity and growth through contemporary urban mega-projects. In particular it considers the relationship of the Grand Paris regional development initiative to a climate of crisis. The argument put forth is that in times of fiscal stress, the state is incentivised to invest in urban services like transportation with a potential to impel economic growth. The most recent global financial crisis of 2008 bring…
Art in transit
High-profile architecture and design, alongside integrated arts and cultural programming are now ubiquitous features of public transit networks. This article considers how and why transit-based arts and cultural programmes are proliferating globally as well as the impact of these programmes on transit and urban dynamics. Through critically analysing the discourses surrounding different transit art initiatives and the institutional structures whic…
Beyond Comparison in Urban Politics and Policy Analysis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Platform for Art
The flourishing of transit art globally reflects a widespread belief in the power of aesthetic practices to promote infrastructural and civic revitalisation. This article analyses how transit art engages spaces and practices of publicness and how art explores ideas of mobility in Toronto. It argues that while arts are frequently deployed to reproduce status quo relations of power and to bolster elite and exclusionary forms of urbanisation, they c…
Mass Transportation in the Neoliberal City
This paper examines the discourses of transportation and mobility surrounding the Grand Paris Express mass transit network announced in January 2011 as part of the broader Grand Paris urban renewal and agglomeration initiative. It argues that though Grand Paris Express has the potential to symbolically unify the Île-de-France region, and may provide much needed infrastructure to the peripheral suburbs of Paris, because of the neoliberal political…
The great wager
This article explores the dialectics of austerity and growth through contemporary urban mega-projects. In particular it considers the relationship of the Grand Paris regional development initiative to a climate of crisis. The argument put forth is that in times of fiscal stress, the state is incentivised to invest in urban services like transportation with a potential to impel economic growth. The most recent global financial crisis of 2008 bring…
Illuminating the Path to Grand Pari(s)
This article examines the architectural exhibition associated with the large-scale Grand Paris urban development project initiated in 2007 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Through a close examination of the exhibition, I argue that imaginative representation is crucial to urban transformation, here acting to justify and naturalize neoliberal reforms. While the ten international teams of architects tasked with imagining twenty-first century Pa…
The Making of Grand Paris
Making of Grand Paris
The political topology of urban uprisings
This article examines the relationship between political uprising and megaproject-based global city reform in Paris and London. On the one hand, it considers the banlieue uprisings in Paris in November 2005 as an impetus for the Grand Paris renewal initiative launched in April 2007. This is compared with the large-scale reformations of space across London in advance of the 2012 Olympics as a contributing factor in the riots of August 2011. In bot…
Cities in Global Capitalism
Book review forum - Ugo Rossi. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2017. 213 pp., references, index. $64.95 cloth (ISBN 978- 0-7456-8966-1), $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-8967-8); $18.99 electronic (ISBN 978-0- 7456-8970-8)
Beyond Comparison in Urban Politics and Policy Analysis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The gendered production of infrastructure
Over the years, many studies have documented how the negative impacts of infrastructure investments are disproportionately borne by women, the poor and racial minorities. In this paper, we focus on the ways that unequal gender dynamics are a key feature of the production of infrastructure, a topic that has received far less attention. In particular, we show how masculinity is deeply embedded in the organizational structures, employment practices,…
Locating the Commons in the Urban Commonwealth
Debate on Margaret Kohn's The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth
This interventions forum presents a debate on Margaret Kohn's The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth . Four contributors from different disciplinary backgrounds discuss and critique Kohn's book, which offers an exploration of the political in an age of modern urbanism. Building on theories of solidarism and social rights, Kohn puts forth a set of new arguments about how the city might be a more governable commonwealth. Her book lays bare so…
Transit justice as spatial justice
The provision of mass urban transit is frequently tied to agendas of social justice and equity. Yet there are persistent challenges to locating justice within urban mobility regimes. Drawing on two cases of transit activism – Free Transit Toronto and Black Lives Matter in the San Francisco Bay Area – this paper identifies three limitations to transport justice scholarship and practice, namely the theorization of mobility, space, and justice. Thes…
Scoping review of the World Health Organization’s underlying equity discourses
Moving forward, the WHO should revaluate its conceptualization of equity and normative position, and align its work with Amartya Sen's Capabilities Approach, as it best encapsulates the broader views of the organization. Further empirical research is needed to assess the WHO interpretations and approaches to equity
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions
Urban infrastructure has appeared as a central feature in a range of commentaries on the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the imprint of the pandemic on cities and the power-laden processes through which they are being rebuilt requires an attention to the politics and governance of infrastructure. In this intervention, we understand the pandemic as a moment to rethink claims over how infrastructures work and how they might be studied. We focus on…
Probing key informants’ views of health equity within the World Health Organization’s Urban Heart initiative
To date, no studies have assessed how those involved in the World Health Organization's (WHO) work understand the concept of health equity. To fill the gap, this research poses the question, "how do Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) key informants understand the concept of health equity?", with Urban HEART being selected given the focus on health equity. To answer this question, this study undertakes synchronous elect…
The Infrastructural Imagination
Throughout Splintering Urbanism, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin draw attention to the inadequacy of conventional representational paradigms for capturing the vast networked systems comprising contemporary urban space. In their postscript, they make this claim explicit, writing that a new “spatial imaginary” is required “to support the challenges of addressing and researching splintering cities.” In this commentary, I explore this provocation, as…
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization. Considering the…
Infrastructuring Urban Futures
A Platform for Art
The flourishing of transit art globally reflects a widespread belief in the power of aesthetic practices to promote infrastructural and civic revitalisation. This article analyses how transit art engages spaces and practices of publicness and how art explores ideas of mobility in Toronto. It argues that while arts are frequently deployed to reproduce status quo relations of power and to bolster elite and exclusionary forms of urbanisation, they c…
Art in transit
High-profile architecture and design, alongside integrated arts and cultural programming are now ubiquitous features of public transit networks. This article considers how and why transit-based arts and cultural programmes are proliferating globally as well as the impact of these programmes on transit and urban dynamics. Through critically analysing the discourses surrounding different transit art initiatives and the institutional structures whic…
The potential politics of the porous city
This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the "porous city," outlining three sets of contributions that porosity offers in analyzing contemporary urbanization patterns and in orienting planning, policymaking, and knowledge production. First, the porous city offers a critical epistemological lens focused on flow and relations, which supports mobile…
Assessing health equity inconsistencies in the World Health Organization’s Urban Heart initiative
This study presents disconnects between WHO's intentions and actions that followed from Urban HEART. Moving forward, it would be important to discuss goals or approaches sought, prior to any global health initiatives, whether explicitly focused on health equity or not
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works)