Prof. Benjamin Forest

Recent Publications

Journal Articles:

Forest, Benjamin (forthcoming 2012) “Electoral Redistricting and Minority Political Representation in Canada and the United States” The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien.

Forest, Benjamin, and Patrick Forest (2012) “Engineering the North American Waterscape: The High Modernist Mapping of Continental Water Transfer Projects” Political Geography 31 (3): 167-183. DOI:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.11.005

Forest, Benjamin, and Juliet Johnson (2011) “Monumental Politics: Regime Type and Public Memory in Post-Communist States” Post-Soviet Affairs 27 (3): 269–288. DOI: 10.2747/1060-586X.27.3.269

Book Chapters:

Forest, Benjamin (2010) “Electoral Geography” in Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by Barney Warf. Sage Publications: 879-884.

Forest, Benjamin (2009) “Political Representation”, in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. Elsevier: 254-259.

Forest, Benjamin (2009) “Concepts géographiques dans la loi: échelle, ségrégation et les minorités raciales”, in Géographie du droit: Epistémologie, développement et perspectives, edited by Patrick Forest. Collection Dikè. Presses de l’Université Laval : 93-116.

Forest, Benjamin (2008) "The Territorial Politics of Representation", in The Handbook of Political Geography , edited by Kevin Cox, Murray Low, and Jennifer Robinson. SAGE Publications.

Editorials:

"It's time for effective representation for national minorities," April 27, 2012

"A policy that depends on segregation," March 29, 2003.