Benjamin Forest
Title:
Associate Professor
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Research areas:
Social geography
Political geography
Urban geography
Current research:
I study the geographical nature of identity and identifications, and I am especially concerned with the political representation and construction of race, ethnicity, and nationality. My current research examines the political representation of ethnic minority groups, the use of monuments and memorials for (re)constructing post-Soviet national identities, and various issues of electoral geography, political parties, and governance.
Topics of interest
- Shaping Democracy: Boundary Commissions, Parties, and Citizens听
- The Politics of Complex Diversity in Contested Cities (Montreal)
- The Power of Symbolic Capital:听
Degree(s):
- , UCLA (1997)
- Associate 惭别尘产别谤,听Department of Political Science, 不良研究所
- 惭别尘产别谤,听, 不良研究所
- Research Fellow,听不良研究所 Institute for the Study of Canada听(2021-2025)
Selected publications:
- Forest, Benjamin, Juliet Johnson and Zarlasht M. Razeq (forthcoming) 鈥淭erritory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade鈥� Geopolitics
- Erl, Chris, Benjamin Forest, and Mike Medeiros (2022) 鈥� 鈥楻eckless, cavalier, dismissive, petty and vengeful鈥� 鈥�?: The impact of municipal constituency change on candidate diversity鈥� Political Geography 99 102788.
- Forest, Benjamin听(2022) 鈥淎s Maine Goes, No Goes the Nation: The 2020 Senate Election" in听, edited by Robert H. Watrel, et al. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield: 225-228.听
- Forest, Benjamin听and Mike Medeiros (2021) 鈥淐ontiguity, Constituencies and the Political Representation of Minorities鈥澨�EPC: Politics and Space听39 (5): 879-899.听
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Faculty