Jessica Parish

About

Jessica Parish is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, where she teaches courses on local and urban governance and sustainability. Prior to this, she was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Center for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Her MSCA project, funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, investigated the role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factor investing in the build-to-rent housing sector in the United Kingdom. Jessica’s research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and focus on debates across gentrification studies, urban environmental justice, sustainable development, and feminist theories of social reproduction. In addition to her academic roles, Jessica has also held research and policy positions at the Ontario Chiropractic Association and Lancaster House Publishing, and she is a past Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors at the Toronto-based Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations.

Work

Carleton University
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Assistant Professor

Canada

De Montfort University
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Ontario Chiropractic Association
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Health Policy Analyst

Canada

Lancaster House
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Research Associate

Canada

York University
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Research Assistant

Canada

Education

York University
Canada

PhD

Publications

Reinventing renting? ESG investing and the new landlordism of build-to-rent housing financialization

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Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

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Gold is not a metaphor*: locating financialisation and housing injustice in settler colonial property regimes in Canada

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International Journal of Housing Policy

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Fiduciary Activism From Below: Green Gentrification, Pension Finance, and the Possibility of Just Urban Futures

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Urban Planning

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What is a river? A transnational meditation on the colonial city, abolition ecologies and the future of geography

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Urban Geography

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Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Escaping the Global City? Gentrification, urban wellness industries, and the exotic-mundane

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Tourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City

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Special Issue on Geographies of Emotional and Care Labour

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Palgrave Communications: Humanities and Social Sciences

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Geographies of emotional and care labour

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Palgrave Communications

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The Vital Politics of Gentrification: Governing life in urban Canada into the 21st century

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Social Justice and Counselling Psychology: Situating the Role of Graduate Student Research, Education and Training

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Canadian Journal of Counselling

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