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OWEN TOEWS

otoews [at] gmail.com

Publications

Toews, Owen. 2023. Island Falls. Winnipeg: ARP Books.

Toews, Owen. 2022. “What’s Going on With Portage Place?” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives monograph, 48 pp.

Toews, Owen. 2022. “New Vision Needed for Portage Place.” Winnipeg Free Press, March 3, 2022.

Toews, Owen, Abby Stadnyk, and Serenity Joo. 2021. “‘Defund the Police’ means re-fund the community.” Canadian Dimension, March 7, 2021.

Wilson, Alex, Owen Toews, and Kevin Settee. 2021. “Against the Duck Factory.” Briarpatch March/April 2021.

Toews, Owen. 2020. “Great Manitoba.” Briarpatch May/June 2020.

Toews, Owen. 2020. “Rooster Town World: Remapping the Suburbs.” Aboriginal Policy Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2020, pp. 96-105.

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn and Owen Toews. 2020. “Dauphin jail closure: Manitoba NDP must abandon failed law and order politics.” Canadian Dimension, February 6, 2020.

Toews, Owen. 2019. “Red Flags: Reflections on Racism and Radicalism.” Canadian Dimension Vol. 53, Issue 1, Summer 2019.

Toews, Owen. 2019. “Portage Place: Let’s Take Back What’s Ours.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba Office.

Toews, Owen. 2018. Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg. Winnipeg: ARP Books.

Toews, Owen. 2017. “Winnipeg Free for All: Towards Democracy at City Hall.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives monograph, 36 pp.

Silver, Jim and Owen Toews. 2016. “Thirty Years of Hard-Earned Lessons: Combatting Poverty in Winnipeg’s Inner City, 1960s-1990s.” Solving Poverty: Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg’s Inner City, Jim Silver (ed.). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Hugill, David and Owen Toews. 2014. “Born Again Urbanism: New Missionary Incursions, Aboriginal Resistance and Barriers to Rebuilding Relationships in Winnipeg’s North End”. Human Geography Vol.7, No.1, 69-84.

Toews, Owen, et al. 2012. “Responses to the Expansion of the Criminal Justice System in Manitoba”. Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2012, Brigette DePape (ed.). Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Toews, Owen. 2011. “Missing and Murdered: The Canadian State’s Solution”. Canadian Dimension Vol.45, Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2011, 28-29.

Toews, Owen. 2011. “Detained: Securing Territories and Policing For Profit”. Geez Magazine Issue 21, Spring 2011, 38-39.

Dobchuk-Land, Bronwyn, Jim Silver and Owen Toews. 2010. “Neighbourhood-Level Responses to Safety Concerns in Four Winnipeg Inner-City Neighbourhoods: Reflections on Collective Efficacy”. Canadian Journal of Urban Research Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 18-33.

Toews, Owen. 2009. “From Revitalisation to Revaluation in the Spence Neighbourhood”. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives monograph, 53 pp.

Dissertation

Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada.

Committee:
Dr. Setha Low (Chair)
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Dr. Rupal Oza.

Education

Ph.D. 2015. Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center.

M.Phil. 2013. Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center.

B.A. Honours. 2009. Urban Planning and Social Justice, University of Winnipeg.

Teaching

History of Winnipeg’s Inner City 3036, University of Winnipeg Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies (Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023). Instructor.

Special Issues: Ending homelessness with vacant buildings 3100, University of Winnipeg Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies (Fall 2020). Instructor.

Housing and the Neighbourhood 3430, University of Winnipeg Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies (Fall 2019). Instructor.

Geography of Culture and Inequality 2640, University of Manitoba Department of Environment and Geography (Winter 2018). Content specialist, online course development.

Geography of Natural Resources 2520, University of Manitoba Department of Environment and Geography (Fall 2016). Instructor.

Honors Seminar 4, Shaping the Future of New York City. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (Spring 2015). Instructor. Course site.

URBS 101 Urban Life. Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012). Instructor.

URBS 403 Urban Revitalization. Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York (Fall 2010). Instructor.

Honors Seminar 1, The Arts in New York City. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (Fall 2012, 2013, 2014). Instructional Technology Fellow.

Honors Seminar 2, The Peopling of New York City. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (Spring 2013, 2014, 2015). Instructional Technology Fellow.

Honors Seminar 3, Science and Technology in New York City. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (Fall 2012, 2013, 2014). Instructional Technology Fellow.

Honors Seminar 4, Shaping the Future of New York City. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (Spring 2013, 2014, 2015). Instructional Technology Fellow.

URBS 403.77 Urban Planning Studio: NYC’s Second Avenue Subway. Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York. (Spring 2011). Studio Assistant.

Scholarships and Awards

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. For Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg. Manitoba Book Awards (2019)

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher. For Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg. Manitoba Book Awards (2019)

Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in politics, history, economy, or society of Western Canada (2017-2018)

Macaulay Honors College Instructional Technology Fellow (2012-2015)

CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies (2013)

CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant (2013)

CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant (2011)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2010-2013)

Fulbright Student Award, Canada-US Fulbright Program (2009)

CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Teaching Fellow (2009-2012)

Media Appearances

“Exploring Inner City Winnipeg.” Ideas with Nahlah Ayed, CBC Radio, aired December 20, 2023.

Art

WAP No.3 Gambling. Winnipeg Arcades Project. Exhibited at 298 Simcoe Street, Winnipeg, MB, August 2015.

WAP No.2. Winnipeg Arcades Project. Exhibited at Atomic Centre, Winnipeg, MB, August 2011.

WAP No.1 Where is the Capital of the 21^st Century? Winnipeg Arcades Project. Exhibited at Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, MB, July 2010.

Island Burden. Winnipeg Arcades Project Booklet No.1, 2010.

mmm, ahh, this is turtle island. 4 minutes, digital video. Winnipeg Arcades Project. Screened at the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque, May 2009.

Non-Teaching Academic Employment

Researcher/Author, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2008-present)

Research Assistant with Dr. Setha Low, CUNY Graduate Center (2009-2010)

Research Assistant/Co-Author with Dr. Jim Silver, University of Winnipeg (2007-2009)

Professional Activities

Acquisitions Editor, Semaphore series, ARP Books (2017 – Present)

Researcher, The Duck Factory, National Film Board of Canada (2022)

Member, Bar None (abolitionist prisoner solidarity group) (2015 – Present)

Co-organizer. “Whose Winnipeg? Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Production of Urban Space”. Workshop, The Social Enterprise Centre, 765 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 20, 2013.

Co-organizer. “Whose Winnipeg? Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Production of Urban Space”. Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013.

Founding Member, Winnipeg Arcades Project (2010-Present)

Member, Space Time Research Collective, CUNY Graduate Centre (2009-Present)

Co-organizer, 2^nd Annual Northeast Regional Space Time Workshop, Brooklyn, NY (2010)

Organizer, Ruth Wilson Gilmore Golden Gulag (2007 U.C. Press) Master Class, CUNY G.C. (2010)

Student Colloquium Co-Organizer, Manitoba Research Alliance “Transforming Inner-City and Aboriginal Communities” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Community-University Research Alliance (2008)

Guest Editor and Contributor, West Central Streets community newspaper, Winnipeg, MB (2007)