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)

Refereed Journals

Hopkins, J., and Leckie G. 2002 'The Public Place of Central Libraries: Findings from Toronto and Vancouver' Library Quarterly 72 (3), 326-374

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
Y. Li 2000 A phenomenological study of tourists' travel experiences
MA Students Year Title
N. Sabokkhiz Current TBA
A. Ratcliffe Current TBA
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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