Nicholas K. Blomley (born 1962) is a British-Canadian legal geographer. He is a Professor and former Chair of Geography at
Simon Fraser University
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.
Career
In 1989, Blomley joined the faculty of Geography at
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located ...
(SFU) as a temporary replacement for a professor. He ended up impressing the department and was hired full-time. In 1994, Blomley published "''Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power''" through the
Guilford Press. This book examined the geographies of law through critical theory. In 1997, Blomley began to develop a computerized geographical information system with data on Vancouver's downtown eastside land market as a way to combat gentrification. The next year, he petitioned then University president
Jack Blaney to review the university's decision regarding support for criminology graduate student
Russel Ogden, apologize, and pay him full compensation for his court appearances. In 2001, he co-edited "''The Legal Geographies Reader''" alongside Richard Thompson Ford and David Delaney. The next year he sat on the Graduate Urban Studies Steering Committee, which introduced SFU's inaugural graduate diploma in urban studies.
Between May 2003 to May 2007, Blomley helped referee manuscripts for the ''Southeastern Geographer'' journal. In 2004, Blomley published "''Unsettling the City''" through
Routledge
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. The book focused on how problems facing gentrification and
Indigenous land claims are generated through modern concepts of property and ownership. In 2010, he published "'' Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow.''" The book would go on to win the Hart Socio-Legal Studies Association book prize. During the 2011–12 academic year, Blomley sat on the Graduate Student Activity Committee of the
Law and Society Association
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. He was also promoted to Chair of the geography department.
The next year, Blomley sat on the Editorial Advisory Board for the ''Territory, Politics, Governance'' Journal. In 2017, Blomley was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada for his research in legal geography.
In 2018, Blomley,
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, and Andy Yan began a pilot study on evictions in the private rental housing market in Metro Vancouver. The study found that
Maple Ridge had the highest number of tenant disputes that more than doubled the Metro average. As well, his paper "'' Land use, planning, and the "difficult character of property''" was shortlisted for the AESOP Best Published Paper Award 2018. The next year, he sat on the Graduate Studies Committee and on the Executive Board of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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funded research project "Landscapes of Injustice" He was also selected to sit on the Application and Nomination Review Committee for the
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. and awarded a grant for two research projects.
References
External links
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SFU profile
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Living people
1962 births
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Canadian geographers
Simon Fraser University faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Boston University faculty