Dr. Jill Wigle wins FASS 2010 Research Award for Junior Faculty

Jill Wigle was recently awarded a FASS 2010 Research Award for Junior Faculty. These research awards are intended to enable faculty members to undertake research in the summer of 2010, in order to permit a formal application for a major external Tri-Council grant (SSHRC, NSERC, or CIHR) in the early fall of 2010. This award will allow Professor Wigle to develop her research on “Irregularity as a mode of governance in Mexico City.”  This research project engages the significant sustainability planning challenges facing Mexico City by exploring the dynamic interplay among irregular settlement processes and city planning. More specifically, the research seeks to investigate the complex social and spatial geometries of power manifested in local land use planning processes, especially those related to planning irregular settlements in the city’s remaining conservation land. The research aims to excavate the ways in which normative planning and irregular settlement are mutually constituted through state-society relations in the planning and settlement process.