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Eugene McCann
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Latest papers
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach.
Progress in human geography · 2026 · first author
The City Under COVID-19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology.
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie = Journal of economic and social geography = Revue de geographie economique et humaine = Zeitschrift fur okonomische und soziale Geographie = Revista de geografia economica y social · 2020
"I do my best to eat while I'm using": Mapping the foodscapes of people living with HIV/AIDS who use drugs.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019
Latest funding
- $230,709
Referencescapes and public space: futures; pasts and elsewheres in contemporary urban politics
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $172,592
Frontier politics: local institutional barriers and political struggles in the global circulation of policy models
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $97,735
A social geography of drug consumption facilities: global networks and urban policy
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach.
McCann E
The City Under COVID-19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology.
Rogers D, Herbert M, Whitzman C, McCann E, Maginn PJ, Watts B, Alam A, Pill M, Keil R, Dreher T, Novacevski M, Byrne J, Osborne N, Büdenbender M, Alizadeh T, Murray K, Dombroski K, Prasad D, Connolly C, Kass A, Dale E, Murray C, Caldis S
"I do my best to eat while I'm using": Mapping the foodscapes of people living with HIV/AIDS who use drugs.
Miewald C, McCann E, Temenos C, McIntosh A
Mobilizing Drug Consumption Rooms: inter-place networks and harm reduction drug policy.
McCann E, Temenos C
Referencescapes and public space: futures; pasts and elsewheres in contemporary urban politics
Principal investigators: McCann, Eugene J.
Keywords: public space; futures; policy mobilities; urban politics; governance; planning; design
Frontier politics: local institutional barriers and political struggles in the global circulation of policy models
Principal investigators: McCann, Eugene J.
Keywords: policy mobilities; urban politics; policy-making; globalization; harm reduction policy
A social geography of drug consumption facilities: global networks and urban policy
Principal investigators: McCann, Eugene J.
Keywords: policy transfer; urban geography; globalization; drug policy
The city in the world: urban policy transfer, politics, and global geographical imaginations
Principal investigators: McCann, Eugene J.
Keywords: urban policy; policy transfer; geographies of knowledge; urban politics
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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