Jeff Hopkins

Associate Professor

Research Interests

I am interested in the many cultural conflicts that arise between people over the use, design, control, representation and identity of places. My study of both the material (physical) and immaterial (social, symbolic) aspects of Western Landscapes focuses on four inter-related themes:

  1. Public Places - indoor/underground cities, public libraries, shopping malls, tourist sites;
  2. Symbolic Landscapes - advertisements, film;
  3. Cultural Studies - consumption, cultural politics, postmodernism, semiotics, space;
  4. Gender - masculinities.

Publications (past 7 years)

Books

Fellmann, D., Getis, A., Getis, J., Shrubsole, D. and Hopkins, J. 2007 Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities (Canadian edition) (McGraw Hill, Ryerson Higher Education: Whitby)

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

Ph.D. Students Year Title
W. Kinghorn Current TBA
A. Ratcliffe Current The Everyday Geographies of Recent Immigrants: Case Studies of Place-Making Practices in Host Programs (London, Ontario)
Y. Li 2000 A phenomenological study of tourists' travel experiences
MA Students Year Title
M. Milczarek Current TBA
A. Ratcliffe 2010 Upgrade from Masters Program to PhD Program
V. Munro 2005 Spaces of female friendships
G. Howard 2005 Seasonal variation in residents' lived geographies in a tourist town: Stratford, Ontario
M. Feehely 2003 Investigating heteropatriarchy in the landscape: A hidden beach at Grand Bend, Ontario?

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