John Paul Catungal
Biographic Data
| ID | 326596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Paul Catungal |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Catungal |
| SIGNATURE | CATUNGAL J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4129-3327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Setting the Scene: An Introduction to FilipiNext
Between July 13 and July 15, 2022, a group of about 60 Filipinx Canadian scholars, artists, organisers, and community members gathered at York University, located in Toronto,for a transdisciplinary workshop called FilipiNEXT. Participants came from across Canada and the United States, not only from major urban centres of Toronto and Vancouverbut also from smaller cities and towns such as Halifax (Nova Scotia), Hazelton (British Columbia [BC]), Wi…
Virtual Qualitative Research Using Transnational Feminist Queer Methodology: The Challenges and Opportunities of Zoom-Based Research During Moments of Crisis
In this paper, we discussed our experiences with Zoom-based virtual qualitative research with Asian international students attending Canadian universities. When reflecting on our study, we drew inspiration from Roberts et al., (2020) who highlight the ethical challenges that emerge when conducting virtual qualitative research with a community that is experiencing the harrowing effects of COVID-19 in real time. Yet we also departed from such work …
Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/Aids and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver
Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspective…
Queering environmental regulation
Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics - namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, o…
Essential workers and the cultural politics of appreciation: Sonic, visual and mediated geographies of public gratitude in the time of Covid-19
What do sonic, visual, and mediated forms of public gratitude for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic tell us about the cultural politics of the category 'essential worker'? What racial, gender, and class structures and processes shape the content, form, and composition of these collective practices of appreciation? In this paper, I draw on my participation in a nightly ritual of collective applause in Vancouver, Canada, my encounters …
Imagining between possible and realized: Creative world-making as politically situated knowledge production
In this rejoinder to Dragos Simandan’s (2019) consolidated theory of the partiality of geographical knowledge, I draw on feminisms of colour, including Black and Chicanx feminisms, to re-place power at the heart of how we understand the situatedness and limitations of how we know, experience and produce worlds. Furthermore, dissatisfied with Simandan’s binary construction of ‘possible worlds’ (in plural) and the ‘realized world’ (in singular), an…
Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto
Neoliberalizing Social Justice in Infrastructure Revitalization Planning: Analyzing Toronto's More Moss Park Project in Its Early Stages
A public consultation process is currently underway to gather ideas on the revitalization of a park and community center in one of Toronto's most economically diverse neighborhoods. This project is a partnership between a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-focused community center, a private philanthropist, and the City of Toronto. In this article, we argue that More Moss Park is illustrative of the neoliberalization of social justice…
Feeling Bodies of Knowledge: Situating Knowledge Production Through Felt Embeddedness
This paper argues that emotionally cognisant geographies not only write emotion into research products, but also examine emotional encounters during research as embodied and felt instantiations of scholars' entanglements in broader political geographies of communities, norms and institutions. It makes this argument by describing and analysing some of the authors' emotional experiences in the process of becoming a geographer of sexuality during Ph…
Teaching the geographies of Canada: Reflections on pedagogy, curriculum, and the politics of teaching and learning
Key Messages This paper is a collection of commentaries on teaching the geographies of Canada which together challenge traditional regional approaches from a variety of perspectives and politics. It examines the politics of active learning, teaching resources, and received curricula while highlighting the embodied nature of the classroom environment. It concludes that regional geography courses are an opportunity to challenge received knowledge i…
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility
Looking at these from the vantage points of anthropology, cultural studies, education, geography, history, information science, literature, political science, sociology, and women and gender studies, Filipinos in Canada provides a strong foundation for future work in this area
"Reading Matthew Farish's "The Contours of America's Cold War
Social Justice and the Creative City: Class, Gender and Racial Inequalities
Richard Florida's creative class theory has recently been adopted by many municipal governments as a key urban economic development policy. This trend, as others have noted, has significant implications for social justice in the creative city, particularly by continuing and even deepening class inequality. This paper shares in the spirit of these class-based critiques, but goes beyond them to argue that gender and racial equality is also at stake…
Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
Governing sexuality and park space: Acts of regulation in Vancouver, BC
This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and dr…
Geographies of Displacement in the Creative City: The Case of Liberty Village, Toronto
Creative industries are increasingly associated with employment, tourism and the attraction and retention of talent in economic development discourse. However, there is a need to foreground the interests involved in promoting the creative city and the political implications of such policies. This paper analyses new industry formation in Liberty Village—a cultural industry precinct in inner-city Toronto, Canada. The focus is on the place-making st…
Contesting the creative city: Race, nation, multiculturalism
Placing Power in the Creative City: Governmentalities and Subjectivities in Liberty Village, Toronto
In this paper we analyze the making of Liberty Village as a creative hub in inner-city Toronto. We focus on the role of property developers and the Liberty Village Business Improvement Association in fostering the area's internal economic geography. Drawing on the literature on governmentality, we dissect how the production of a place identity requires both the production of new subjectivities and the exclusion of alternative actors and understan…
Geographies of Displacement in the Creative City: The Case of Liberty Village, Toronto
Creative industries are increasingly associated with employment, tourism and the attraction and retention of talent in economic development discourse. However, there is a need to foreground the interests involved in promoting the creative city and the political implications of such policies. This paper analyses new industry formation in Liberty Village—a cultural industry precinct in inner-city Toronto, Canada. The focus is on the place-making st…
Social Justice and the Creative City: Class, Gender and Racial Inequalities
Richard Florida's creative class theory has recently been adopted by many municipal governments as a key urban economic development policy. This trend, as others have noted, has significant implications for social justice in the creative city, particularly by continuing and even deepening class inequality. This paper shares in the spirit of these class-based critiques, but goes beyond them to argue that gender and racial equality is also at stake…
Governing sexuality and park space: Acts of regulation in Vancouver, BC
This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and dr…
Placing Power in the Creative City: Governmentalities and Subjectivities in Liberty Village, Toronto
In this paper we analyze the making of Liberty Village as a creative hub in inner-city Toronto. We focus on the role of property developers and the Liberty Village Business Improvement Association in fostering the area's internal economic geography. Drawing on the literature on governmentality, we dissect how the production of a place identity requires both the production of new subjectivities and the exclusion of alternative actors and understan…
Contesting the creative city: Race, nation, multiculturalism
Virtual Qualitative Research Using Transnational Feminist Queer Methodology: The Challenges and Opportunities of Zoom-Based Research During Moments of Crisis
In this paper, we discussed our experiences with Zoom-based virtual qualitative research with Asian international students attending Canadian universities. When reflecting on our study, we drew inspiration from Roberts et al., (2020) who highlight the ethical challenges that emerge when conducting virtual qualitative research with a community that is experiencing the harrowing effects of COVID-19 in real time. Yet we also departed from such work …
Feeling Bodies of Knowledge: Situating Knowledge Production Through Felt Embeddedness
This paper argues that emotionally cognisant geographies not only write emotion into research products, but also examine emotional encounters during research as embodied and felt instantiations of scholars' entanglements in broader political geographies of communities, norms and institutions. It makes this argument by describing and analysing some of the authors' emotional experiences in the process of becoming a geographer of sexuality during Ph…
Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/Aids and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver
Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspective…
Essential workers and the cultural politics of appreciation: Sonic, visual and mediated geographies of public gratitude in the time of Covid-19
What do sonic, visual, and mediated forms of public gratitude for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic tell us about the cultural politics of the category 'essential worker'? What racial, gender, and class structures and processes shape the content, form, and composition of these collective practices of appreciation? In this paper, I draw on my participation in a nightly ritual of collective applause in Vancouver, Canada, my encounters …
Neoliberalizing Social Justice in Infrastructure Revitalization Planning: Analyzing Toronto's More Moss Park Project in Its Early Stages
A public consultation process is currently underway to gather ideas on the revitalization of a park and community center in one of Toronto's most economically diverse neighborhoods. This project is a partnership between a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-focused community center, a private philanthropist, and the City of Toronto. In this article, we argue that More Moss Park is illustrative of the neoliberalization of social justice…
Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
Queering environmental regulation
Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics - namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, o…
Imagining between possible and realized: Creative world-making as politically situated knowledge production
In this rejoinder to Dragos Simandan’s (2019) consolidated theory of the partiality of geographical knowledge, I draw on feminisms of colour, including Black and Chicanx feminisms, to re-place power at the heart of how we understand the situatedness and limitations of how we know, experience and produce worlds. Furthermore, dissatisfied with Simandan’s binary construction of ‘possible worlds’ (in plural) and the ‘realized world’ (in singular), an…
Teaching the geographies of Canada: Reflections on pedagogy, curriculum, and the politics of teaching and learning
Key Messages This paper is a collection of commentaries on teaching the geographies of Canada which together challenge traditional regional approaches from a variety of perspectives and politics. It examines the politics of active learning, teaching resources, and received curricula while highlighting the embodied nature of the classroom environment. It concludes that regional geography courses are an opportunity to challenge received knowledge i…
Geographies of Displacement in the Creative City: The Case of Liberty Village, Toronto
Creative industries are increasingly associated with employment, tourism and the attraction and retention of talent in economic development discourse. However, there is a need to foreground the interests involved in promoting the creative city and the political implications of such policies. This paper analyses new industry formation in Liberty Village—a cultural industry precinct in inner-city Toronto, Canada. The focus is on the place-making st…
Contesting the creative city: Race, nation, multiculturalism
Placing Power in the Creative City: Governmentalities and Subjectivities in Liberty Village, Toronto
In this paper we analyze the making of Liberty Village as a creative hub in inner-city Toronto. We focus on the role of property developers and the Liberty Village Business Improvement Association in fostering the area's internal economic geography. Drawing on the literature on governmentality, we dissect how the production of a place identity requires both the production of new subjectivities and the exclusion of alternative actors and understan…
Governing sexuality and park space: Acts of regulation in Vancouver, BC
This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and dr…
Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility
Looking at these from the vantage points of anthropology, cultural studies, education, geography, history, information science, literature, political science, sociology, and women and gender studies, Filipinos in Canada provides a strong foundation for future work in this area
"Reading Matthew Farish's "The Contours of America's Cold War
Social Justice and the Creative City: Class, Gender and Racial Inequalities
Richard Florida's creative class theory has recently been adopted by many municipal governments as a key urban economic development policy. This trend, as others have noted, has significant implications for social justice in the creative city, particularly by continuing and even deepening class inequality. This paper shares in the spirit of these class-based critiques, but goes beyond them to argue that gender and racial equality is also at stake…
Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
Teaching the geographies of Canada: Reflections on pedagogy, curriculum, and the politics of teaching and learning
Key Messages This paper is a collection of commentaries on teaching the geographies of Canada which together challenge traditional regional approaches from a variety of perspectives and politics. It examines the politics of active learning, teaching resources, and received curricula while highlighting the embodied nature of the classroom environment. It concludes that regional geography courses are an opportunity to challenge received knowledge i…
Feeling Bodies of Knowledge: Situating Knowledge Production Through Felt Embeddedness
This paper argues that emotionally cognisant geographies not only write emotion into research products, but also examine emotional encounters during research as embodied and felt instantiations of scholars' entanglements in broader political geographies of communities, norms and institutions. It makes this argument by describing and analysing some of the authors' emotional experiences in the process of becoming a geographer of sexuality during Ph…
Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto
Neoliberalizing Social Justice in Infrastructure Revitalization Planning: Analyzing Toronto's More Moss Park Project in Its Early Stages
A public consultation process is currently underway to gather ideas on the revitalization of a park and community center in one of Toronto's most economically diverse neighborhoods. This project is a partnership between a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-focused community center, a private philanthropist, and the City of Toronto. In this article, we argue that More Moss Park is illustrative of the neoliberalization of social justice…
Imagining between possible and realized: Creative world-making as politically situated knowledge production
In this rejoinder to Dragos Simandan’s (2019) consolidated theory of the partiality of geographical knowledge, I draw on feminisms of colour, including Black and Chicanx feminisms, to re-place power at the heart of how we understand the situatedness and limitations of how we know, experience and produce worlds. Furthermore, dissatisfied with Simandan’s binary construction of ‘possible worlds’ (in plural) and the ‘realized world’ (in singular), an…
Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/Aids and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver
Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspective…
Queering environmental regulation
Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics - namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, o…
Essential workers and the cultural politics of appreciation: Sonic, visual and mediated geographies of public gratitude in the time of Covid-19
What do sonic, visual, and mediated forms of public gratitude for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic tell us about the cultural politics of the category 'essential worker'? What racial, gender, and class structures and processes shape the content, form, and composition of these collective practices of appreciation? In this paper, I draw on my participation in a nightly ritual of collective applause in Vancouver, Canada, my encounters …
Virtual Qualitative Research Using Transnational Feminist Queer Methodology: The Challenges and Opportunities of Zoom-Based Research During Moments of Crisis
In this paper, we discussed our experiences with Zoom-based virtual qualitative research with Asian international students attending Canadian universities. When reflecting on our study, we drew inspiration from Roberts et al., (2020) who highlight the ethical challenges that emerge when conducting virtual qualitative research with a community that is experiencing the harrowing effects of COVID-19 in real time. Yet we also departed from such work …
Setting the Scene: An Introduction to FilipiNext
Between July 13 and July 15, 2022, a group of about 60 Filipinx Canadian scholars, artists, organisers, and community members gathered at York University, located in Toronto,for a transdisciplinary workshop called FilipiNEXT. Participants came from across Canada and the United States, not only from major urban centres of Toronto and Vancouverbut also from smaller cities and towns such as Halifax (Nova Scotia), Hazelton (British Columbia [BC]), Wi…
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