Ted Rutland
Biographic Data
| ID | 92105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ted Rutland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ted |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutland |
| SIGNATURE | RUTLAND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8735-2751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ferguson effects: Libidinal geographies of “police disengagement” and late fascist urbanism
Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a prominent form of pro-police backlash has emerged, one that claims the BLM movement has caused police to “disengage” from interventions with Black and other racialized people and caused a corresponding increase in crime rates. This supposed effect of BLM protests has been termed the “Ferguson effect” or simply “police disengagement.” While the “police disengagement” thesis has been critic…
Secure and Monitor: Racial Regimes of Property and Policing in Gentrifying Halifax
This article examines the relationship between gentrification and policing by considering how regimes of property and policing produce racial subjects. To do so, we draw together recent scholarship on racial regimes of property and a more established literature on community policing. We then use this work to trace how regimes of property and policing overlapped in a gentrifying neighbourhood of Halifax, Canada. Here, regimes of property and polic…
Public relations, repression, and counter-insurgency: The overlapping functions of police ‘co-response’ teams in Montréal
Abolition, abolitions
Bien que l'été 2020 ait fait sortir le champ lexical de l’abolition et de l’abolitionnisme des petits milieux militants pour arriver dans l’espace public au Québec, l'histoire de la lutte abolitionniste ne date pas d'hier. Cet éditorial montre comment le système policier et carcéral s'est développé parallèlement au colonialisme, à l'esclavage, à l'anti-noirisme et au capitalisme hétéropatriarcal, et comment des personnes et des groupes ont combat…
Futurité blanche en crise à Montréal: Temps et espaces de la gestion de la race
Cet article porte sur la géographie de la futurité blanche au Québec, autour du cas de la ville de Montréal. Par ce concept, qui rend compte de la manière dont la blanchité est construite par rapport à l’avenir et comment l’imagination du futur façonne les discours et les pratiques raciales actuels, notre but est de saisir la gestion de la race dans ses dimensions temporelles et géographiques. Nous proposons alors une analyse générale de la futur…
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants' rights in Montreal
Property relations in 1980s Montreal were a venue of struggle and change. In this period, a well-organized tenants' movement and the election of progressive governments spawned a series of legal and policy changes that strengthened tenants' rights in the city. During the same period, however, an emerging police, government and media discourse cast Black communities as criminal 'ghettos', and a variety of mechanisms, including new policies meant t…
Profiling the Future: The Long Struggle against Police Racial Profiling in Montreal
Racial profiling is an increasingly well-studied problem in Quebec. Efforts to combat this problem, in contrast, are virtually non-existent. Seeking to address this gap, this article examines the long struggle to combat racial profiling in Montreal. This struggle began in earnest in 1979. It saw its most significant achievements between 1984 and 1991 and it saw most of these achievements watered down and rolled back between 1992 and 1997. The str…
From compromise to counter-insurgency: Variations in the racial politics of community policing in Montreal
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives. While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing co…
The spaces that anti-blackness makes
One of the most important developments for critical urban studies in recent years has been the emergence of a rejuvenated Black geography. Exemplified by publications like McKittrick and Woods’ (20
The city is an apartment house”: Property, improvement and dispossession in early twentieth-century Halifax, Nova Scotia
In early twentieth-century Halifax, municipal policies of property taxation and assessment became an important object of political discussion and contestation. Central to these political contests was a particular, theoretically informed distinction between “land” and “improvements.” This distinction would ultimately ground a set of changes in municipal taxation and assessment (introduced between 1914 and 1918) and would help to constitute a new a…
Enjoyable life: Planning, amenity and the contested terrain of urban biopolitics
This article explores the connections between urban planning and a particular form of biopolitics. These connections are investigated by looking at the emergence of "enjoyment" as a planning concern in late 1960s Halifax, Nova Scotia. This new concern, the article suggests, emerged as a result of a political struggle involving activist groups, a newly formed state agency, and elements of the post-World War II political establishment. Wedded to th…
Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, sex, and security in sixties Montreal
Where the little life unfolds’: Women's citizenship, moral regulation and the production of scale in early twentieth-century Halifax, Nova Scotia
Activists in the Making: Urban Movements, Political Processes and the Creation of Political Subjects
A constant and largely unquestioned characteristic of contemporary studies of urban movements is their conception of the activist 'subject'- the reflective agent or 'doer' who participates in, and shapes, urban movements. Whereas it has become increasingly common in other scholarly research to regard the subject as a contingent, context-specific outcome or creation, studies of urban movements have not been swayed. The latter, even as they proceed…
Re-remembering Africville
Razing Africville: a geography of racism, Jennifer J. Nelson. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009, 192 pp., ISBN 9781442610286, $CAN 24.95 (pbk). The story of Africville—already the subject
The Financialization of Urban Redevelopment
Spurred by the conviction that not only financial capital but also changes in finance and changes in its relations with non-financial activities have immense and complicated consequences for ongoing processes of urban redevelopment, this article puts the presently separate financialization and urban redevelopment literatures in conversation. The article begins with a review of the financialization literature, outlining and evaluating four differe…
The Work of Policy: Actor Networks, Governmentality, and Local Action on Climate Change in Portland, Oregon
To develop and implement public policy requires work. In this paper, we examine some of the work involved in a pathbreaking climate change policy adopted in Portland, Oregon. Seeking to address shortcomings in existing studies of local environmental governance, we focus particular attention on how climate change became a political priority in Portland, how a particular representation of local carbon dioxide emissions was developed in the process …
The Work of Policy: Actor Networks, Governmentality, and Local Action on Climate Change in Portland, Oregon
To develop and implement public policy requires work. In this paper, we examine some of the work involved in a pathbreaking climate change policy adopted in Portland, Oregon. Seeking to address shortcomings in existing studies of local environmental governance, we focus particular attention on how climate change became a political priority in Portland, how a particular representation of local carbon dioxide emissions was developed in the process …
The Financialization of Urban Redevelopment
Spurred by the conviction that not only financial capital but also changes in finance and changes in its relations with non-financial activities have immense and complicated consequences for ongoing processes of urban redevelopment, this article puts the presently separate financialization and urban redevelopment literatures in conversation. The article begins with a review of the financialization literature, outlining and evaluating four differe…
Enjoyable life: Planning, amenity and the contested terrain of urban biopolitics
This article explores the connections between urban planning and a particular form of biopolitics. These connections are investigated by looking at the emergence of "enjoyment" as a planning concern in late 1960s Halifax, Nova Scotia. This new concern, the article suggests, emerged as a result of a political struggle involving activist groups, a newly formed state agency, and elements of the post-World War II political establishment. Wedded to th…
Activists in the Making: Urban Movements, Political Processes and the Creation of Political Subjects
A constant and largely unquestioned characteristic of contemporary studies of urban movements is their conception of the activist 'subject'- the reflective agent or 'doer' who participates in, and shapes, urban movements. Whereas it has become increasingly common in other scholarly research to regard the subject as a contingent, context-specific outcome or creation, studies of urban movements have not been swayed. The latter, even as they proceed…
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants' rights in Montreal
Property relations in 1980s Montreal were a venue of struggle and change. In this period, a well-organized tenants' movement and the election of progressive governments spawned a series of legal and policy changes that strengthened tenants' rights in the city. During the same period, however, an emerging police, government and media discourse cast Black communities as criminal 'ghettos', and a variety of mechanisms, including new policies meant t…
From compromise to counter-insurgency: Variations in the racial politics of community policing in Montreal
The city is an apartment house”: Property, improvement and dispossession in early twentieth-century Halifax, Nova Scotia
In early twentieth-century Halifax, municipal policies of property taxation and assessment became an important object of political discussion and contestation. Central to these political contests was a particular, theoretically informed distinction between “land” and “improvements.” This distinction would ultimately ground a set of changes in municipal taxation and assessment (introduced between 1914 and 1918) and would help to constitute a new a…
Where the little life unfolds’: Women's citizenship, moral regulation and the production of scale in early twentieth-century Halifax, Nova Scotia
Re-remembering Africville
Razing Africville: a geography of racism, Jennifer J. Nelson. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009, 192 pp., ISBN 9781442610286, $CAN 24.95 (pbk). The story of Africville—already the subject
The Work of Policy: Actor Networks, Governmentality, and Local Action on Climate Change in Portland, Oregon
To develop and implement public policy requires work. In this paper, we examine some of the work involved in a pathbreaking climate change policy adopted in Portland, Oregon. Seeking to address shortcomings in existing studies of local environmental governance, we focus particular attention on how climate change became a political priority in Portland, how a particular representation of local carbon dioxide emissions was developed in the process …
The Financialization of Urban Redevelopment
Spurred by the conviction that not only financial capital but also changes in finance and changes in its relations with non-financial activities have immense and complicated consequences for ongoing processes of urban redevelopment, this article puts the presently separate financialization and urban redevelopment literatures in conversation. The article begins with a review of the financialization literature, outlining and evaluating four differe…
Re-remembering Africville
Razing Africville: a geography of racism, Jennifer J. Nelson. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009, 192 pp., ISBN 9781442610286, $CAN 24.95 (pbk). The story of Africville—already the subject
Where the little life unfolds’: Women's citizenship, moral regulation and the production of scale in early twentieth-century Halifax, Nova Scotia
Activists in the Making: Urban Movements, Political Processes and the Creation of Political Subjects
A constant and largely unquestioned characteristic of contemporary studies of urban movements is their conception of the activist 'subject'- the reflective agent or 'doer' who participates in, and shapes, urban movements. Whereas it has become increasingly common in other scholarly research to regard the subject as a contingent, context-specific outcome or creation, studies of urban movements have not been swayed. The latter, even as they proceed…
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, sex, and security in sixties Montreal
The city is an apartment house”: Property, improvement and dispossession in early twentieth-century Halifax, Nova Scotia
In early twentieth-century Halifax, municipal policies of property taxation and assessment became an important object of political discussion and contestation. Central to these political contests was a particular, theoretically informed distinction between “land” and “improvements.” This distinction would ultimately ground a set of changes in municipal taxation and assessment (introduced between 1914 and 1918) and would help to constitute a new a…
Enjoyable life: Planning, amenity and the contested terrain of urban biopolitics
This article explores the connections between urban planning and a particular form of biopolitics. These connections are investigated by looking at the emergence of "enjoyment" as a planning concern in late 1960s Halifax, Nova Scotia. This new concern, the article suggests, emerged as a result of a political struggle involving activist groups, a newly formed state agency, and elements of the post-World War II political establishment. Wedded to th…
Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements
The spaces that anti-blackness makes
One of the most important developments for critical urban studies in recent years has been the emergence of a rejuvenated Black geography. Exemplified by publications like McKittrick and Woods’ (20
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people’s lives. While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing co…
Profiling the Future: The Long Struggle against Police Racial Profiling in Montreal
Racial profiling is an increasingly well-studied problem in Quebec. Efforts to combat this problem, in contrast, are virtually non-existent. Seeking to address this gap, this article examines the long struggle to combat racial profiling in Montreal. This struggle began in earnest in 1979. It saw its most significant achievements between 1984 and 1991 and it saw most of these achievements watered down and rolled back between 1992 and 1997. The str…
From compromise to counter-insurgency: Variations in the racial politics of community policing in Montreal
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants' rights in Montreal
Property relations in 1980s Montreal were a venue of struggle and change. In this period, a well-organized tenants' movement and the election of progressive governments spawned a series of legal and policy changes that strengthened tenants' rights in the city. During the same period, however, an emerging police, government and media discourse cast Black communities as criminal 'ghettos', and a variety of mechanisms, including new policies meant t…
Abolition, abolitions
Bien que l'été 2020 ait fait sortir le champ lexical de l’abolition et de l’abolitionnisme des petits milieux militants pour arriver dans l’espace public au Québec, l'histoire de la lutte abolitionniste ne date pas d'hier. Cet éditorial montre comment le système policier et carcéral s'est développé parallèlement au colonialisme, à l'esclavage, à l'anti-noirisme et au capitalisme hétéropatriarcal, et comment des personnes et des groupes ont combat…
Futurité blanche en crise à Montréal: Temps et espaces de la gestion de la race
Cet article porte sur la géographie de la futurité blanche au Québec, autour du cas de la ville de Montréal. Par ce concept, qui rend compte de la manière dont la blanchité est construite par rapport à l’avenir et comment l’imagination du futur façonne les discours et les pratiques raciales actuels, notre but est de saisir la gestion de la race dans ses dimensions temporelles et géographiques. Nous proposons alors une analyse générale de la futur…
Public relations, repression, and counter-insurgency: The overlapping functions of police ‘co-response’ teams in Montréal
Ferguson effects: Libidinal geographies of “police disengagement” and late fascist urbanism
Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a prominent form of pro-police backlash has emerged, one that claims the BLM movement has caused police to “disengage” from interventions with Black and other racialized people and caused a corresponding increase in crime rates. This supposed effect of BLM protests has been termed the “Ferguson effect” or simply “police disengagement.” While the “police disengagement” thesis has been critic…
Secure and Monitor: Racial Regimes of Property and Policing in Gentrifying Halifax
This article examines the relationship between gentrification and policing by considering how regimes of property and policing produce racial subjects. To do so, we draw together recent scholarship on racial regimes of property and a more established literature on community policing. We then use this work to trace how regimes of property and policing overlapped in a gentrifying neighbourhood of Halifax, Canada. Here, regimes of property and polic…
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