Curriculum Vitae (Recent Activites)

Name                 GLEN BODEN NORCLIFFE

Status                Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, York University

Degrees          1965     B.A.(Geography) University of Cambridge

                              1967     M.A.(Geography) University of Toronto

                              1970     Ph.D.(Geography) University of Bristol

                              2006     D.Sc. (Geography) University of Bristol

Employment History

1970–2008            Assistant Professor (1970-74) Associate Professor (1974-88) and Professor

                            (1988-2008) Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, York University.

1975–76                Planning Advisor, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Republic of Kenya.

1979–81                Director, York University Kenyan Graduate Training Programme.

1980–88                Fenceviewer under the Line Fences Act (1979) for the Town of Vaughan.

1984–87                Chair, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, York University.

1988–89                Professeur Invité, Département de Géographie, Université Lumière, Lyon 2, France.

Awards and Fellowships

1977                      Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.

1981–82                Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Leave Fellowship.

1981–82                University Research Fellow, University of Bristol.

1987–88                York University, Faculty of Arts Research Fellowship.

1988–89                Professeur Invité, L'Université Lumière, Lyon 2.

1996-97                 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester.

1998                     The Fairman Prize of the American Precision Museum for contributions to the

                            historical geography of mass production.

2003                     Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction.

2003                     The Robert McNair History Award of the American Wheelman for contributions                              to the history of cycling.

2006                     Doctor of Science (University of Bristol).

2011                     Visiting Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources

                            Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

2013                     Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.

2017                     Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.

Recent Publications

2000      Trevor J. Barnes, John N.H. Britton, William J. Coffey, David W. Edgington, Meric S. Gertler and Glen B. Norcliffe: “Canadian economic geography at the Millennium”, Canadian Geographer, Vol. 44(1), 4-24.

2000      Valerie Preston, Damaris Rose, Glen Norcliffe and John Holmes: “Shift work, childcare and domestic work: divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities”, Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 7(1), 5-29.   Reprinted in Kimmel, M.S., Aranson, A. and Kaler, A. editors, The Gendered Society Reader (Toronto: Oxford University Press).

2001      Glen Norcliffe: The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada 1869-1900 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 288pp.

2001      Glen Norcliffe: “Canada in a Global Economy” (invited lead paper for 50^th Anniversary Issue) Canadian Geographer, Vol. 45(1), 14-30.

2003      Glen Norcliffe and Olivero Rendace: “New geographies of comic book production in North America: the new artisan, distancing, and the periodic social economy”, Economic Geography, Vol. 79(3), 241-263.

2003      Glen Norcliffe:  entries entitled “Cycling”, and “Canada Cycle and Motor Company” to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History. (Toronto: Oxford University Press).

2005      Derrek Eberts and Glen Norcliffe: “Employment and work in Toronto’s new economy” Urban Planning Overseas, Vol. 20 (2), pp.30-40.

2005      Glen Norcliffe: Global Game, Local Arena: Restructuring in Corner Brook, Newfoundland (St. John’s: ISER Books) 247pp.

2005      Glen Norcliffe:  “The Coventry bicycle industry and the geographical construction of technology”, in  R. Van der Plas (editor), Cycle History 15: (San Francisco: Cycle Publishing)  41-58.

2006      Glen Norcliffe:  "Popeism and Fordism: examining the roots of mass production",  in Huw Benyon and Theo Nichols (editors), The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) 65-78.

2006      Philip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe: “Flâneurie on bicycles: acquiescence to women in public in the 1890s,” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50(1), 17-37.

2006      Glen Norcliffe:  “Associations, modernity and the insider-citizens of a Victorian highwheel bicycle club”.  Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 19(2), 121-150.

2007      Glen Norcliffe, editor, Cycle History 17: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Cycle History Conference, Toronto, July 2006.  (San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications 160pp.).

2007      Glen Norcliffe: “On the technical and social significance of the tricycle”, in Glen Norcliffe (editor) Cycle History17 (San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications) 59-68.

2007      Philip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe: “Gender and social geography of cycling in the late 19C”, in D. Horton, P. Rosen and P Cox (eds)  Cycling and Society (Abingdon: Ashgate) 153-177.

2009      Glen Norcliffe:  “The Coventry tricycle: technology, gender and buzz”, Cycle History19: (St.Etienne: Musee d’Arts et d’Industries) pp. 136-143.

2009       Glen Norcliffe: “Technological change”, in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. eds International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 1. (London: Elsevier) 165-170.

2009       Glen Norcliffe: “G-COT: The geographical construction of technology”.  Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 34(4), 449-475.

2011       Glen Norcliffe: “Neoliberal hypermobility and the tricycle”.  Osaka Urban Research Plaza Document 11, 70-76.

2011       Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu, Glen Norcliffe, and Chao Du, “Trade barriers …the bicycle trade between China and Canada.”  Acta Geographica Sinica, 66(4): 477-486. 

2011       Glen Norcliffe:  “Neoliberal mobility and its discontents in China”.  City, Culture and Society, Vol. 2(4), 235-242.

2012       Glen Norcliffe: “Before geography?  Early tricycles in the age of mecanicians.” Cycle History 22: (Cheltenham: Quorum), 86-99.

2012       Donald Freeman and Glen Norcliffe:  “The 1970s: Growing pains in a changing world.” Geography at York University: Reflections on the First Fifty Years edited by William Found and John Radford (Toronto, Ontario: Department of Geography, York University)  73-90.

2012       Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu and Glen Norcliffe: “Hypermobility and the governance of global production networks: the case of the Canadian cycle industry and its links with China and Taiwan”. The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 56(4), 439-458.

2013       Maxime Lessard-Lachance and Glen Norcliffe: “’To Storm the Citadel’: Geographies of protest at the Summit of the Americas in Québec City, April 2001”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 103(1), 180-194.

2013       Michael Andreae, Jinn-yuh Hsu and Glen Norcliffe: “Performing the trade show: the case of the Taipei International Cycle Show”.  Geoforum, Vol. 49(1), 193-201.

2013      Glen Norcliffe and Ron Miller:  “Defining the nation: the rise of the Canadian Wheelmen.” Cycle History 23: (Cheltenham, Quorum), pp.110-121.

2013      [eBook]  Glen Norcliffe: Schliessende Statistik für Geographen: Eine Einführung (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) [First published in 1981, and re-issued as an eBook in 2013 as one of “40 renowned imprints” in the Springer Book Archives accumulated between 1842 and 2005].

2015      Glen Norcliffe:  Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, reissued in 2016 by Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing) 285pp.

2016      Glen Norcliffe: “Geographical imaginaries in Richard Lesclide’s « Le Tour du Monde en Vélocipède » Cycle History 26:  71-75.

2016      Glen Norcliffe [book review] Paul Smethurst (2015) The Bicycle: Towards a Global History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Studies in Travel Writing Vol. 20(3), 313-316.

2016       Daniel Evans and Glen Norcliffe: “Local identities in a global game: the social production of football space in Liverpool.” Journal of Sport and Tourism, 20(3-4) 217-232. To be reprinted in:  T. Hinch, J. Higham and B. Moyle eds., Sport Tourism and Sustainable Destinations. (Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis) forthcoming, 2018.

2017       Glen Norcliffe:  “National identity, club citizenship and the formation of the Canadian Wheelman’s Association 1883-87.” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 51(2) 461-484.

2018       Glen Norcliffe and Gao Boyang:  “Hurry-slow: automobility in Beijing?”  in Philip Gordon Mackintosh,  Richard Dennis and Deryck W. Holdsworth eds. Architectures of Hurry: Mobilities, Cities and Modernity.  London: Routledge, pp. 83-99.

2017        Boyang Gao, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe and Zhigao Liu: “Capturing gains by relocating global production networks: the rise of Chongqing’s notebook computer industry, 2008–2014”.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 58(2) 231-257.

2018        Glen Norcliffe: “Women and cycling: a revisionist interpretation.”  In Cycle History 28: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Cycle History Conference edited by Gary Sanderson (San Francisco: Cycle Publishing) pp. 86-89.

2018        Glen Norcliffe and Judy Bates: “Neoliberal Governance and Resource Peripheries: The Case of Ontario’s mid-North during the Common Sense Revolution.”  Studies in Political Economy, in press.

Recent Conference Papers Given

Glen Norcliffe and Oliver Rendace: “Cultural production in a periodic social economy: the case

of the comic book industry”, at Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh,

April 2000.

Maxime Lachance and Glen Norcliffe: “Geographies of globalization and protest: The Summit

of the Americas, Quebec City, April 2001" at Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers,

Montreal, May 2001.

Judy Bates and Glen Norcliffe: “Community impacts of restructuring in Corner Brook and the

surrounding rural region”, Canadian Rural Studies Association conference or recent rural change,

University of Guelph, March 2002.

Glen Norcliffe:  “Reflexive modernity, work insecurity, institutions and the new artisan”, Annual

Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Victoria, May 2003

Glen Norcliffe: “Acts of exclusion: the highwheel cavalry of the Montreal Bicycle Club, 1878-1890.” 

Conference on Acts of Citizenship, York University, Toronto, March 2004.

Glen Norcliffe: “G-COT: the geographical construction of technology.”  Annual Meeting, Canadian

Association of Geographers, University of Moncton, New Brunswick, May 2004.

Glen Norcliffe: “The rise of the Coventry bicycle industry 1869-1880, and the geographical

construction of technology”, 15th International Cycle History Conference, Technisches Museum,

Vienna, Austria, September 2004.

Glen Norcliffe: “Emptying the Green North: the state and the changing political economy of

Canadian regional development”, Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University

of Western Ontario, May 2005.

Judy Bates and Glen Norcliffe:  “Rohmer’s Dream and neoliberal reality: de-industrialization and

urban crisis in Canada’s Mid-North”, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers,

Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.

Glen Norcliffe: “On the technical and social significance of the tricycle”, 17th International Cycle

History Conference, York University, Toronto, July 2006.

Glen Norcliffe: “The state, institutions and supply networks: the case of the Canadian bicycle

industry”, Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, Beijing, China, June 2007.

Glen Norcliffe: “Global Supply networks, neoliberalism and the state”, Association of American

Geographers, Boston, April, 2008.

Glen Norcliffe:  “The Coventry tricycle: technology, gender and buzz”, Nineteenth International

Cycle History Conference, St. Etienne, France, June 2008.

Michael Andreae and Glen Norcliffe: “Performing the trade show: the case of the Taipei

International Cycle Show”, Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division, Brock University,

October 2008.

Glen Norcliffe:  “Neoliberal mobility and its discontents”, Conference on Creating Cities:  Culture,

Space and Sustainability, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, February 2010.

Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu and Glen Norcliffe:  “Hypermobility and the global supply networks

of the Canadian bicycle industry”, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, London,

UK, September 2010.

Glen Norcliffe: “Before geography?  Early tricycles in the age of mecanicians.” Twenty Second

International Cycle History Conference, Paris, France, May 2011.

Glen Norcliffe:  “Performing the trade show:  the case of the Taipei International Cycle Show”.

 Third Global Conference on Economic Geography, Seoul, South Korea, June 2011.

Glen Norcliffe: “Global Sloanism”, Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2012.

Glen Norcliffe and Ron Miller:  “Defining the nation: the rise of the Canadian Wheelmen.”  23rd International Cycle History Conference, Roeselare, Belgium, May 2012.

Glen Norcliffe, Derrek Eberts and Boyang Gao:  “The governance of neo-artisanal production in Germany and Canada”.  Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 2013.

Glen Norcliffe:  “For a geography of cycling.”  25th International Cycle History Conference, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2014.

Glen Norcliffe, Gao Boyang and Mick Dunford: “Capturing gains in relocated global supply chains:  the case of Chongqing’s computer notebook industry.” Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 2015.

Glen Norcliffe: “Richard Lesclide’s geographical imaginaries.” 26th International Cycle History Conference, Entraigues sur la Sorgue, France, August 2015.

Glen Norcliffe and Gao Boyang: “Variegated governance of industry in the neoliberal age”, Annual Conference, American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, April 2016.

Gao Boyang and Glen Norcliffe: “State governance in the development of Chongqing’s notebook computer cluster”, Annual Conference, American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, April 2016.

Glen Norcliffe: “Women and cycling: a revisionist interpretation”.  28th International Cycle History Conference, Mannheim Technomuseum, Germany, May 2017.

Glen Norcliffe and Stefan Decosse: “Evolutionary changes in the global production networks for elite hockey players.”  International Conference on Global Production, National University of Singapore, 6-8 December 2017.

Gao Boyang, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe and Liu Weidong: “Governance capacity and strategic coupling: state policy and the rise of the Chongqing laptop cluster.”  International Conference on Global Production, National University of Singapore, 6-8 December, 2017.

Selected Recent Scholarly and Professional Activities

1994 and 1995     Chair, Ontario Graduate Scholarships Panel for Human Geography

1995                   Invited Lecturer, Western Canadian Universities’ Lecture Series in Geography

1996                   Research Grant Adjudication Committee (Panel 9), Social Sciences and

                          Humanities Research Council of Canada

1997                   Public lecture in Bristol, England sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society to

                          mark the 500th Anniversary of Cabot’s voyage from Bristol

2000                   CBC Radio: Metro Morning: live interview on cycling.

2001                   CBC Radio: Fresh Air: live interview on the bicycle.

2002                   Curator of Exhibition:  “The County Bicycle Shop”, Bruce County Museum,

                          Southampton, Ontario, subsequently touring other County Museums in Ontario.

2002                   CBC Television: On the Road Again: on the importance of cycling heritage.

2003                   TVOntario: Studio 2: on preparing a museum exhibition.  

2005                   The History Channel: half hour program on the bicycle in Things that Move.

2006                   (with Royal Ontario Museum) Curated exhibition “Victorian Cycling” at Pearson

                          International Airport.

2007                   Programme appraiser:  B.A. programmes in Urban Studies, Health and Society, and

                          Labour Studies, for the Academic Vice-President, York University.

2008                   Programme Appraiser:  PhD, M.Sc. and M.A. programmes in Geography, University

                          of Ottawa (for the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies).

2008- present      Ediitorial Board, The Canadian Geographer.

Recent Research Grants

2006                   Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Aid to Scholarly

                          Publications for Book: Global Game: Local Arena) $7000. 

2007-2008           Sabbatical Fellowship, York University “Geographies of Industry in the Neoliberal 

                          Age” ($5000).

2007-2011           Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Standard Grant) “The state,

                          institutions and the supply chains of the Canadian bicycle industry”. $42,000