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Mariana Valverde, FRSC
- B.A. (Brock), M.A., Ph.D. (Social and Political Thought, York)
- Professor of Criminology
- Email Address: m.valverde@utoronto.ca
Recent & Forthcoming Publications:
In the fall of 2012 the University of Chicago Press will be publishing Mariana Valverde's latest book, Everyday law on the street: city governance and the challenges of diversity, based on five years of empirical and legal research on how the city of Toronto uses the legal tools it has (zoning, business licensing, vending bylaws, etc). For more information click here.
- M. Valverde. "The Crown in a multicultural age: the changing epistemology of (post)colonial sovereignty." Forthcoming in Social and Legal Studies, 2012.
- M. Valverde, 2011. "Seeing like a city: the dialectic of modern and premodern ways of seeing in urban governance." Law & Society Review Vol.45, no.2, 277-312.
- "Specters of Foucault in Law and Society Scholarship" - Mariana Valverde
- Publications accessible through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
- M. Valverde, 2011. "Comment on Alan Brudner's Punishment and Freedom." New Criminal law Review Vol.13 no.2.
- M. Valverde, 2010. "Practices of criminalization and scales of citizenship." New Criminal Law Review Vol.14 no.3, 486-494.
- M. Valverde (2009, October) [Podcast] "How the earth became a collection of land uses." Retrieved 2009, October 14, from http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/video/#Oct.
- M. Valverde, 2008. "The ethic of urban diversity: Urban law and local norms." Law and Social Inquiry Vol.33 no.4, 895-923.
- M. Valverde, 2009. "Jurisdiction and scale: Using law's technicalities as theoretical resources." Social & Legal Studies Vol.18 no.2, 139-157.
- M. Valverde. Law and Order: Signs, Meanings, Myths. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
- M. Dubber and M. Valverde, eds., 2006. The new police science: the police power in domestic and international governance. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- P. Goodrich and M. Valverde, eds., 2005. Nietzsche and legal theory: half-written laws. New York: Routledge.
- M. Valverde, 2005. "Authorizing the production of urban moral order: appellate courts and their knowledge games." Law and Society Review Vol.39, no.2.
- M. Valverde, 2003. Law’s dream of a common knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- M. Valverde, 2003. "Pragmatist and non-pragmatist knowledge practices in American law." (March 28, 2003). Cornell Law School. Cornell Law School East Asian Law and Culture Conference Series Paper 1.
http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/ealccs/plg/1/
Ongoing & Future Research
Profesor Valverde's fields of inquiry are social and legal theory, socio-legal studies, and historical sociology
Currently, Mariana is doing comparative research in the history of urban planning and urban policing, with a focus on how cities have used a variety of tools to separate 'good' from 'bad' neighbourhoods. The time period is the century of the suburb, i.e. 1870s-1970s. An article based on that research, "Seeing like a city", appeared in Law and Society Review, 2011.
She is also planning to do research, in the near future, on public-private partnerships used to build urban infrastructure and urban amenities.
Presentations:
- Questions of Security: Presented at the Dedication of the Richard Ericson Seminar Room, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, October 30, 2008.
Criminology Courses Taught:
- CRI 1050H. Theories of Crime and Social Order.
