Martha Radice
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
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Email: martha.radice@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6747
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
- Social justice and inequality
- Urban studies
- Space and place
- Ethnicity
- Cosmopolitanism
- Applied - action research
- Canada
- Quebec
Cross appointments
- Canadian Studies
- School of Planning
Education
- BA Hons, University of Sussex
- MA, Universit茅 Laval
- PhD, Insitut national de la recherche scientifique
Research interests
Martha Radice is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on the social, spatial and cultural dynamics of cities. Her ongoing areas of interest are urban anthropology, public space, public art and public culture, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, community and neighbourhoods, applied urban research, and ethnographic methods. 聽
Dr. Radice's current research explores carnival practices in New Orleans, for which she has been awarded a Fellowship (2017) and a SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2023). She also worked with Jill Grant, Ren Thomas, and Howard Ramos on the Halifax team of the Canada-wide . Her past interdisciplinary research-creation project with Solomon Nagler and Kim Morgan at NSCAD University explored how art can shape the urban public and, conversely, how the urban public can shape artistic production, and resulted in the book co-edited with . 聽
Dr. Radice is committed to opening public access to academic research, and serves on the Board of , a Canadian consortium to support open digital publishing and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. She is a past president of the and was Co-Chair of the first of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Anthropological Association in 2019. She can provide copies of most of her publications by email.
Selected publications
- Radice, M. (2023).聽Embodying cultural infrastructure in Carnival. In , edited by Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore. Agenda Publishing.聽
- Radice, M. (2022). . Anthropologica 64 (1):1-10.
- (2022) . Journal of Intercultural Studies 43 (2):267-282.
- Radice, M. (2021) . Anthropologica 63 (1):1-27.
- Radice, M. (2018) City & Society 30(1): 45-67.
- Radice, M., & Boudreault-Fournier, A. (eds) (2017) Montr茅al: McGill-Queen's University Press.