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Deborah Leslie
Univ ersity of Toronto Rm 5066 Sid Smith Hall 100 St. George Street Toronto, ON. M5S 3G3 tel: 416.978.8467 email: leslie@geog.utoronto.ca

Associate Professor of Geography Canada Research Chair in the Cultural Economy (Tier II). 2004-2009 My research interests are united by a common theme: the relationships between economy, culture and place. I am interested in: The location and dynamics of cultural industries and their production systems. I have done research on industrial and graphic design services in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, and also on advertising agencies in New York City. More recently my research focuses on processes of talent attraction and retention and skill formation in the fashion and art sectors in Toronto. I am also conducting research on new industry formation and displacement in Liberty Village, Toronto. Together with Norma Rantisi at Concordia University in Montreal, I am examining the unique geographic and regulatory factors that have fostered innovation in the circus in Montreal. Urban cultural policies and new forms and scales of urban governance. I have a particular interest in the shift towards more entrepreneurial/ neoliberal regimes of urban governance and on policies designed to support creativity and culture. The spatial and temporal logic of commodity chains and networks, and ethical issues surrounding consumption. W ork emphasizes discourses, labour practices and corporate codes of conduct in the home furnishings and clothing commodity chains. The body and the workplace. I have done research on the construction of the body in the workplace, concentrating on both the clothing industry and the automobile industry. W ith respect to the automobile industry, my research emphasizes lean production, injury and the spatial reconfiguration of production processes. I have done research on how the restructuring of assembly lines and management practices has been accompanied by new discourses of the body and increased rates of injury.

Publications
- Leslie, Deborah, 2008 Forthcoming, Consumption. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Ed. Rob Kitchen and Nigel Thrift. Elsevier. forthcoming - Leslie, Deborah and Norma Rantisi, 2008, Fostering a culture of design: insights from the case of Montreal, Canada. Creativity and Innovation in the Cultural Economy. Ed. Paul Jeffcutt and Andy Pratt. London: Routledge. Forthcoming. - Reimer, S. and D. Leslie. 2008, Furniture Design and national imaginaries Growth And Change. 39(1): 144-171 - Leslie, D. and N. Rantisi, 2006, Governing the Design Economy in Montreal, Canada. Urban Affairs Review. 40(5): 1-29 - Leslie, D. and S. Reimer, 2006, Situating Design in the Canadian Household Furniture Industry. Canadian Geographer. 50(3): 319-341 - Rantisi, N. and D. Leslie, 2006, Branding the Design Metropole: the Case of Montreal, Canada. Area. 38(4): 364-376 - Rantisi, N. Leslie, D. and S. Christopherson, 2006, Placing the creative economy: scale, politics, and the material. Environment and Planning A. 38: 1789-1797

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- Leslie, D, 2005, Creative cities?. Geoforum. 1-3 - Reimer, S. and D. Leslie, 2004, Knowledge, ethics and power in the home furnishings commodity chain. Geographies of Commodity Chains. Ed. A. Hughes and S. Reimer. London: Routledge. 250-269 - Reimer, S. and D. Leslie, 2004, Identity, consumption and the home. Home Cultures. 1(2): 187-208 - Leslie, D. and S. Reimer, 2003, Gender, modernism and home consumption Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 21: 293-316 - Leslie, D. and S. Reimer, 2003, Fashioning Furniture: Restructuring the Furniture Commodity Chain. Area. 35(4): 427-437 - Leslie, D, 2002, Gender, retail employment and the clothing commodity chain. Gender, place and culture. 9(1): 61-76 - Butz, D. and D. Leslie, 2001, "Risky Subjects: Changing Geographies of Employment in the Automobile Industry". Area. 33(2): 212-219 - Leslie, D, 1999 "Consumer subjectivity, space and advertising research". Environment and Planning A. 31: 1443-1457 - Leslie, D. and S. Reimer, 1999, "Spatializing commodity chains". Progress in Human Geography. 23(3): 401-420 - Leslie, D. and D. Butz, 1998, "'GM Suicide': Flexibility, space and the injured body". Economic Geography. 74(4): 360-378. - Leslie, D, 1997, "Femininity, post-fordism and the 'new traditionalism'". reprinted in Space, gender, knowledge. Ed. Linda McDowell and Joanne Sharp. London: Arnold. 300-317 - Leslie, D, 1997, "Flexibly specialized agencies? Reflexivity, identity and the advertising industry". Environment and Planning A. 29: 1017-1038 - Leslie, D, 1997, "Abandoning Madison Avenue: the relocation of advertising services in New York City". Urban Geography. 18(7): 568-590 - Leslie, D, 1995, "Global Scan: The Globalization of Advertising Agencies, Concepts and Campaigns". Economic Geography. 71(4): 402-426 - Leslie, D. A, 1993, "Femininity, post-fordism and the 'new traditionalism'". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 11. 689-708

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