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Joshua Friesen

Joshua Friesen

Ph.D candidate, Anthropology

·¡-³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýjoshua.friesen [at] mail.mcgill.caÌý

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION:

Research Interests: Development Studies; Urban Development; Political Anthropology; Urban Form
Project Title:ÌýCompany Towns and Contemporary Outposts; Economic and Social Development in Two Quebecois Cities
Geographic Focus: ²Ï³Üé²ú±ð³¦
Project Description:
My doctoral research analyzes how governmental and industrial development schemes affected and continued to affect two urban communities in ²Ï³Üé²ú±ð³¦. My dissertation is an ethnographic, spatial, and historical study of urban development, economic ideologies, differing conceptions of urban resiliency and sustainability, and the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ relationship between geography, government, and local politics in Alma and Saint-Georges, Quebec.
Supervisor: Philip Carl Salzman
Previous Education:
BA (honours) in Anthropology from the University of Calgary and a MA in Anthropology from ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University
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