Heather Whiteside

   

Heather Whiteside
BSIA Fellow
BSIA Fellow

RESEARCH CLUSTER

RESEARCH CLUSTER

Heather Whiteside

  University Profile

Heather Whiteside is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Heather studies the political economy of the state. She is currently working on grant-funded projects related to colonial era joint-stock royal charter companies in British North America (SSHRC Insight Development Grant) and public enterprise solutions for post-pandemic recoveries (SSHRC Insight Grant). In 2020, she received an Arts Award for Excellence in Research; in 2017, she received an Outstanding Performance Award.

Heather has published six books and twenty articles in venues such as Canadian Public Administration, Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Review of International Political Economy, and Studies in Political Economy.

Awards

  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Austerity and Its Alternatives)
  • SSHRC Insight Grant (Varieties of Austerity)

Select Publications

  • Palcic, D., Reeves, E., and Whiteside, H. 2022. “Reluctant State Capitalism: antipathy, accommodation, and hybridity in Irish telecommunications.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. January 24, 2022, online first.
  • Whiteside, H., McBride, S., and Evans, B. 2021. Varieties of Austerity. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Whiteside, H. 2021. “State and Collective Ownership: Thwarting and Enabling Financialization? Urban Geography Plenary Lecture Discussant Paper.” Urban Geography. October 4, 2021, online first.
  • Whiteside, H. 2021. “Reconciling with Capitalism: selling Crown land to settle with First Nations.” Canadian Public Administration. 64:2, pp. 257-278.
  • Whiteside, H. 2021. “Beyond Death and Taxes: Fiscal Studies and the Fiscal State.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. February 9, 2021, online first.
  • Whiteside, H., ed. 2020. Canadian Political Economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Whiteside, H. 2020. Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories. London: Routledge.
  • Whiteside, H. 2020. “Privatizing Canadian Government Real Estate: Railroads, Reconciliation, and Rip-Offs.” Land Use Policy. June 7, 2020, online first.
  • Whiteside, H. 2019. “Is, ought and being careful what you wish for.” Dialogues in Human Geography. September 9, 2019, online first.
  • Whiteside, H. 2019 “Public-Private Partnerships: Market Development Through Management Reform.” Review of International Political Economy. July 3, 2019, online first.
  • Whiteside, H. 2019. “Critical Commentary: Advanced Perspectives on Financialized Urban Infrastructures.” Urban Studies. February 14, 2019, online first.

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