Vanessa Mathews
Research Interests
- Craft beer
- Building reuse
- Heritage
- Urban space
- Urban planning
- Gentrification
- Embodied practice
Current Projects
I am currently the Principal Investigator on a SSHRC IDG grant (with Dr. Roger Picton, Trent University) on the effects of craft beer on small towns in Ontario.
Another theme that I am investigating in my research, is the link between historic buildings and embodied energy, with a particular interest in the role that existing buildings play in urban sustainability.
Lastly, my research explores embodiment and urban space, specifically how movements and meanings of the body are transformed/limited/directed in public.
Recent Publications
Mathews, Vanessa (2019) Lofts in translation: Gentrification in the Warehouse District, Regina, Saskatchewan. Canadian Geographer, 63(2), 284-296.
Mathews, Vanessa (2019) Reconfiguring the breastfeeding body in urban public spaces. Social & Cultural Geography, 20(9), 1266-1284.
Mathews, Vanessa (2018) Reusing Buildings, Of Land & Living Skies: A Community, Journal on Place, Land, and Learning. (Issue 8)
Mathews, Vanessa (2014) Incoherence and tension in culture-led redevelopment, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(3), 1019-1036.
Mathews, Vanessa & Roger M. Picton (2014) Intoxifying gentrification: Brew pubs and the geography of post-industrial heritage, Urban Geography, 35(3), 337-356.
Mathews, Vanessa, (2013) book review of Richard Lloyd, Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge) in The Canadian Geographer.
Mathews, Vanessa (2010) Aestheticizing space: Art, gentrification and the city, Geography Compass, 4(6), 660-675.
Mathews, Vanessa (2010) Set appeal: Film space and urban redevelopment, Social & Cultural Geography, 11(2), 171-190.
Mathews, Vanessa (2008) Artcetera: Narrativizing gentrification in Yorkville, Toronto, Urban Studies, 45(13), 2849-76.
Mathews, Vanessa (2006) Art Space and Image Value: Redevelopment at the Distillery District, Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network, Spring (No. 167).
Picton, R.M., Mathews, V. (2023). Adaptive Reuse in the Canadian Craft Beer Sector. In: Patterson, M.W., Hoalst-Pullen, N. (eds) The Geography of Beer. Springer, Cham., p. 101-111
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39008-1_8
Vanessa Mathews & Roger M. Picton (2023) Craft breweries as hermit crabs: Adaptive reuse and the revaluation of place, Local Development & Society, 4:2, 326-347 DOI: 10.1080/26883597.2022.2163918
Vanessa Mathews (2022) Planning for craft breweries: Neolocalism, third places and gentrification, Urban Geography, 44:8, 1768-1793, DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2022.2126143
Mathews, Vanessa (2022) The Place of the Public Under COVID-19, Canadian Geographer. 66(4), 632-638. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cag.12769
Recent Interviews / Podcasts
CBC National (radio). Interviewed by Jason Osler, National Trends Reporter. Breastfeeding in public. Aired 14-28 August, 2019. https://soundcloud.com/jasonosler/breastfeeding-in-public
Rebellion Brewing Co. Podcast. Craft Beer Booms. Interviewed by Matthew Barton. 13 August, 2019. https://anchor.fm/rebellionbrewing/episodes/Dr--Vanessa-Mathews-on-Craft-Beer-Booms-e4uprt
360 degree City. Podcast. Brewing up community. Interviewed by John Lewis. 26 November, 2018. https://360degree.city/2018/11/26/brewing-up-community-2/
Regina Leader-Post. More than beer: Regina urban geographer considers craft breweries’ impact on economy and community. Reporter Jennifer Ackerman. 26 July, 2018. https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/more-than-beer-regina-urban-geographer-considers-craft-breweries-impact-on-economy-and-community