不良研究所

Axis 鈥淓conomy, social innovation, and social transformation鈥

不良研究所

Norma Rantisi

Associate member

Portrait of Norma RantisiAffiliation

Associate Professor,听Department of Geography, Planning and Environment (Concordia University)

Research interests

Urban economic development; labour market intermediaries, wear industry; socio-spatial organization of the contemporary circus arts and apparel industries; economic policies; vernacular creativity

Contact information


Henry F. Hall Building
1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West
Office S-H 1255-37
Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3G 1M8
Phone: (514) 848-2424, ext. 2018

norma.rantisi [at] concordia.ca (> Email)

Selected publications


Brydges, T., Leslie, D., and Rantisi, N.M. (2023) 鈥淐rafting alternative urban fashion infrastructure in a digital and pandemic age?鈥 in The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, edited by Alison L. Bain and Julie Podmore. Agenda Publishing.

(R) Leslie, D., Rantisi, N.M., Black, S. (2023) 鈥淩ealizing the social mandate of work-integration social enterprises through an anti-racist feminist praxis and spatiality?鈥 Geoforum 138 1-11.

Brydges, T., d鈥橭vidio, M., Lavanga, M., Leslie, D. and N.M. Rantisi (2022) 鈥淭he field of fashion in the digital age鈥 Culture, Creativity and Economy. Edited by Hracs, B., Brydges, T., Haisch, T., Hauge, A., Jansson, J. and Sjoholm, J. Routledge Press.

Norma Rantisi and Leslie, D. (2020) 鈥淚n and Against the Neoliberal State: The Precarious Siting of Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) as Counter-movement in Montreal, Quebec鈥 Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.

M.S Sprague and Rantisi, N.M. (2019) 鈥淧roductive Gentrification in the Mile-Ex neighborhood of Montreal, Canada: Exploring the Role of the State in Remaking Urban Industrial Clusters鈥 Urban Research and Practice. 12(4): 301-321.

Norma Rantisi听and D. Leslie. "Le Mile-End听: un quartier au carrefourde la vie culturelle et听茅conomique", in Montr茅al:听la cit茅 des cit茅s,听Juan-Luis Klein and Richard Shearmur (dir.), Qu茅bec, Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 du Qu茅bec, 2017.

D. G. Tremblay,听Norma听Rantisi,听and Juan-Luis Klein. 鈥淭he Revitalization of Montreal:听The Significance of Social Innovation as a Pillar of Economic Development鈥, in听Growing Urban听Economies, D. Wolfe and M. Gertler (dir.), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016, p. 82-108.

Norma Rantisi听and Deborah Leslie. "The Significance of Higher Educational Institutions as Cultural Intermediaries: The Case of 脡cole Nationale du Cirque in Montr茅al, Canada",听Regional Studies, vol. XLIX, n掳 3, 2015, p. 404-417.

Norma Rantisi. "Gendering Fashion, Fashion Fur: On the (Re)production of a Gendered Labor Market Within a Craft Industry in Transition",听Environment and Planning D : Society and Space, vol. XXXII, n掳 2, 2014, p. 223-239.

Mandana Nouri-Nekoei and Norma Rantisi. "The Enduring Significance of Economic Factors for the Attraction of Creative Workers: The Case of Montreal鈥檚 Video Game Industry",听Northeastern Geographer, vol. IV, n掳 1, 2012, p. 1-16.

Thomas A. Communs-Russell and Norma Rantisi. "Networks and 芦Places禄 in Montreal鈥檚 Independent Music Industry",听The Canadian Geography, vol. LVI, n掳 1, p. 80-97.

Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington and Norma Rantisi听(dir.).听Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy, New York, Routledge, 2009.

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