Martha Radice
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Dalhousie University
- Halifax NS
An anthropologist who studies the social, spatial and cultural dynamics of cities.
Social
Biography
Dr. Radice worked with Solomon Nagler and Kim Morgan at NSCAD University on an interdisciplinary research-creation project, Tracing the City: Interventions of Art in Public Space, which explored how art can shape the urban public and, conversely, how the urban public can shape artistic production. She currently works with Jill Grant and Howard Ramos on the Halifax team of the Canada-wide Neighbourhood Change Research Project. During her sabbatical in winter 2016, she was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, where she began new research into carnival culture in New Orleans.
Dr. Radice is editor-in-chief of the Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography and President-Elect of the Canadian Anthropology Society. She can provide copies of most of her publications by email.
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
President-Elect, Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d'anthropologie
2016-05-01
http://www.cas-sca.ca/about/casca-executive/executive-committee
Burgess Research Award
2013-10-30
Teaching release, awarded on a competitive basis to provide extra time for research. Awarded Fall 2013, taken up Winter 2015.
Education
Institut national de la recherche scientifique - Urbanisation Culture Société
PhD
Urban studies / Études urbaines
2010
Université Laval
M.A.
Anthropologie / Anthropology
1999
Links
Languages
- English
- French
Media Appearances
'Before I die' wall coming to Toronto this summer
Toronto Star. Reporter: Katie Daubs print
2012-05-23
Daubs, Katie (2012) '‘Before I die’ wall coming to Toronto this summer.' The Toronto Star, Toronto, 23 May 2012, p. GT1, GT11.
Research Grants
Perceptions of Change in Atlantic Cities
SSHRC Insight Grant $418000
2015-04-30
2015-2020. Co-applicant, ‘Perceptions of Change in Atlantic Cities’, SSHRC Insight Grant, $418 000, PI: Howard Ramos, Dalhousie University. Other co-applicants: Lisa Kaider, Mark Stoddart, Memorial U Newfoundland; James McDonald, UNB. Collaborators: Jill Grant, Daniel Rainham, Yoko Yoshida, Dalhousie U; Rima Wilkes, UBC; Michael Haan, Luc Thériault, UNB.
Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership
SSHRC Partnership Grant $2500000
2012-04-30
2012-2019. Co-applicant, ‘Neighbourhood Inequality, Diversity, and Change: Trends, Processes, Consequences, and Policy Options for Canada's Large Metropolitan Areas.’ Short name: ‘Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership.’
SSHRC Partnership Grant no. 895-2011-1004, $2.5 million. PI: J David Hulchanski, University of Toronto. Halifax team leader: Jill Grant, School of Planning, Dalhousie University. See http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/about/research-team/ for full list of co-applicants and community partners.
Tracing the City: Interventions of Art in Public Space
SSHRC Research-Creation Grant in the Fine Arts $237411
2011-04-30
2011-2015. Co-applicant, ‘Tracing the City: Interventions of Art in Public Space.’ SSHRC Research-Creation Grant in the Fine Arts no. 848-2010-0019, $237 411. PI: Solomon Nagler, NSCAD University; co-applicant : Kim Morgan, NSCAD University. Collaborators: Christopher Kaltenbach, NSCAD University; Ellen Moffat, independent artist; Erin Wunker, Dalhousie University.
Articles
Putting the public in public art: An ethnographic approach to two temporary art installations
City & Societyforthcoming (accepted)
"Ici, c’est polyethnique": les cadrages de la diversité ethnique dans quatre quartiers de classes moyennes à Montréal
Lien social et politiques no. 76 (Les quartiers urbains en transformation)forthcoming (accepted)
co-authors: Leloup, Xavier, Annick Germain, and Martha Radice.
What Affects Perceptions of Neighbourhood Change?
The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadienforthcoming (accepted)
co-authors: Gosse, Meghan, Howard Ramos, Martha Radice, Jill L Grant, and Paul Pritchard
Unpacking intercultural conviviality in multiethnic commercial streets
Journal of Intercultural Studies 37(5): 432-448 (special issue on Conviviality)2016-10-15
Conviviality has recently been taken up to capture everyday living-with-difference in multiethnic cities. Although it has usually been operationalised through an analysis of social interactions framed in neighbourhood or community settings, this article shifts the focus to more tightly delimited public places. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in four multiethnic neighbourhood commercial streets in Montréal, Quebec, it proposes a model that unpacks conviviality in place through four components: microplaces, codes of sociability, perceived intergroup relations, and place image (critical infrastructure). The article further argues that while conviviality not only pertains to relations across cultural difference, when it is intercultural, it overlaps conceptually with everyday cosmopolitanism – situated, emergent practices and discourses of openness to, and engagement with, cultural others. It uses the place-based model of conviviality to show how each of the commercial streets has its own distinct variety of everyday cosmopolitanism. Unpacking conviviality in place keeps us attuned to the many dimensions of social relations that make up contemporary cities.
Micro-cosmopolitanisms at the urban scale
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, special issue on ‘Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complicating the Interaction between Aspiration and Practice’, 22(5): 588-6022016-01-01
Scholars may no longer see cosmopolitanism as the preserve of the jet-setting elite, but they still tend to focus on international travel as the primary means of acquiring cosmopolitan competence. However, one should not confuse mindsets with mileage: if travel does not always generate cosmopolitanism, then neither is it a precondition for it, so stay-at-homes can become cosmopolitan too. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in multiethnic neighbourhoods of Montréal, Quebec, to show how cosmopolitanism can be produced and practised within the microcosm of the city. While international mobility is not necessarily part of these negotiations of difference, other kinds of spatial and social mobility are, especially intra-urban mobility and mobility of the imagination. Examining micro-cosmopolitanism at the urban scale, however, also reveals that practices of and aspirations towards cosmopolitanism do not necessarily coincide.
La cohabitation interethnique dans quatre quartiers de classe moyenne à Montréal : deux petites leçons tirées des discours sur la diversité
Diversité urbaine, 14(1): 5-242014-01-01
co-authors: Germain, Annick, Xavier Leloup and Martha Radice
