Heather Whiteside, University of Waterloo

Research

Canada housing land privatization public ownership real property reconciliation state capitalism

Latest papers

Working with/in crises: More questions than answers?
Dialogues in urban research · 2025 · first author
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures.
Dialogues in human geography · 2025 · first author
Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory.
Environment & planning A · 2025 · senior author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Canada Lands Company
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$11,762
Back to the future? Public enterprise and Canadian economic development prospects
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$31,548
Holding the Purse Strings: Joint-Stock Royal Charter Companies and the Origins of Capitalism in North America
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$33,457

All 5 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Working with/in crises: More questions than answers?

Whiteside H

Dialogues in urban research2025First author

DOI: 10.1177/27541258251388091 PMID: 42004230

02

State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures.

Whiteside H

Dialogues in human geography2025First author

DOI: 10.1177/20438206241253566 PMID: 40735491

03

Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory.

van der Haegen T, Whiteside H

Environment & planning A2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x241312890 PMID: 40520072

04

State capitalism as Lazarus meets Loch Ness: Insights from the Asiatic mode of production.

Whiteside H

Environment & planning A2023First author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231157747 PMID: 37180847

05

Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development.

Alami I, Whiteside H, Dixon AD, Peck J

Environment & planning A2023

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231156913 PMID: 37180846

Canada Lands Company

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Whiteside, Heather

Keywords: Canada; housing; land; privatization; public ownership; real property; reconciliation; state capitalism; state owned enterprise

$11,762

Back to the future? Public enterprise and Canadian economic development prospects

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McBride, Stephen

Keywords: political economy; public policy; post-pandemic strategies; public enterprise; trade agreements

$31,548

Holding the Purse Strings: Joint-Stock Royal Charter Companies and the Origins of Capitalism in North America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Whiteside, Heather

Keywords: British joint-stock royal charter companies; Hudson's Bay Company; Virginia Company; British North America; Indigenous land; Colonialism; Capitalism; Public-Private Partnerships; Political economy

$33,457

Varieties of austerity: identification, interpretation, implications

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McBride, Stephen

Keywords: austerity; varieties of austerity; fiscal consolidation; public sector restructuring; labour market flexibility; policy change; policy continuity

$184,252

Austerity and its alternatives

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: McBride, Stephen

Keywords: austerity; policy change; policy making; alternatives to austerity; evidence and public policy

$199,740

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Jamie Peck

Department of Geography

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Canada Dear Professor Whiteside, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Working with/in crises: More questions than answers?" (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Canada Lands Company" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]