Rob Shields


Robert MacArthur Shields is a Canadian sociologist and cultural theorist. He is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair at University of Alberta. Shields directs the in the Faculty of . From 1991-2004 he rose to Professor of Sociology and Directed the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada, with an interlude in 1995-97 as a Lecturer in Culture and Communications at Lancaster University, Lancaster UK.
Education: Architecture, Sociology and Urban and Regional Studies.

Contributions and notable impacts

1. Journal founder, Space and Culture: International journal of social spaces. Curb Canadian Planning Magazine using the example of the historical problem of the Seven Bridges of Königsburg solved by Leonard Euler. Recent work includes urban studies of walkability and pedestrians' experience of the city.

Published works

Books and Edited Works
Spatial Questions: Social Spatialisations and Cultural Topologies. London: Sage. 2013. 197pp. Mandarin translation 空间问题 Phoenix Educational Publishers, Nanjing 2017.
The Virtual. London: Routledge. 2003. 272pp.
Lefebvre, Love and Struggle: Spatial Dialectics. London: Routledge, 1999. 218pp.
Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity. International Library of Sociology, London: Routledge Chapman Hall, 1991. 334 pp. Library Choice Outstanding Publication of the Year Award.
City-Regions in Prospect: Place meets Practice. Co-Editor with Kevin Jones and Alex Lord. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2015.
Re-reading Jean-François Lyotard. Essays on his later works. Co-Editor with Heidi Bickis. London: Ashgate. 2013.
Demystifying Deleuze. An Introductory assemblage of crucial concepts. Co-Editor with Michael Vallee. Ottawa: Red Quill Books. 2013.
: Reimagining the Suburban Mini-mall Design Competition. Co-edited with M. Patchett. Edmonton: City Region Studies Centre / Space and Culture Publications. 2012.
Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire and Hope. Co-Editor with Tonya Davidson and Ondine Park, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2011.
What is a City? Rethinking the Urban After Katrina. Co-Editor with Philip Steinberg, Athens: Georgia University Press. 2008. 233pp.
Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Engineering and Construction. Co-Editor with André Manseau, London: Ashgate. 2005. 184pp.
Cultures of Internet. Rob Shields London: Sage, 1996. 196pp. Translated into Serbo-Croatian as Kulture Interneta Zagreb: Naklada Jesefnski I Turk, Hrvatscko socioloko drutvo. 2001.
Social Engineering, The Technics of Change. Co-Editor with Adam Podgorecki and Jon Alexander, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996. 359pp.
Life Style Shopping: The Subject of Consumption''. International Library of Sociology, London: Routledge, 1993. 239pp. Excerpts translated into Russian and German.