DEGREES ( Back )
 

1991 Ph.D., Sociology, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom, " Improved Earth: Land Settlement, Community and Class in Rural North America, 1900 to 1960 "

1984 M.A., Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, " The Elementary Forms of Religious Life in Context: The Indeterminacy of Social Scientific Debate "

1982 B.A., Honours, Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon


RESEARCH GRANTS ( Back )

2007 Centre for Regional Studies, $4,100, “Modeling the Built Environment: Sustainability Indicators for Antigonish”

1998 Centre for Regional Studies, $6,382, "Governing Environments: State and Community Environmentalism in Maine and Nova Scotia, 1980-1999"

1998 University Council for Research, $2,000, "Improved Earth: the Architecture of Rural Space"

1997 St. Francis Xavier Teacher Innovation Initiative and the Nova Scotia Economic Renewal Agency, $3,000, Pilot Project: "Interactive Learning Software,"

1996 Summer Employment /Experience Development Grant, Employment and Immigration Canada, $1,925, supplement to "Women and Environmental Activism: Nova Scotia, 1982-84"

1996 University Council of Research, $1,294, "Women and Environmental Activism: Nova Scotia, 1982-84"

1995 University Council of Research, $1,700, "Labour and Environmental Coalitions: Nova Scotia and Maine"

1994 Centre for Regional Studies, $5,845, "Fordist and Post-Fordist Politics: Labour and Environmental Movements in Nova Scotia and Maine"

1993 University Council of Research, $3,000, "Grass Roots Organization and Environmental Policy: Nova Scotia and Maine"


RESEARCH ASSISTANTS ( Back )

1997 Carmel Purkis -- technical assistance /design consultation -- pilot project to construct a 'cybertext' version of Durkheim's Suicide . Nova Scotia Employment Program for Students, St. Francis Xavier Teaching Innovation fund.

1997 Nancy Norman, Meghan Mulcahy, Rosmarie Curry - primary research -- waste audits for the Town of Antigonish. Co-operative project between the Department of Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University, the Town of Antigonish and the Nova Scotia Employment Program for Students. (Bantjes provided training through a service-learning component of a course.)

1996 Tanya Trussler - interviews, compiling database -- Summer Employment /Experience Development Grant, Employment and Immigration Canada

1996 Alicia Van de Sande - library research - St. Francis Xavier University Council of Research.

1995 Jana Kutarna - interview transcription -- University Council of Research.

1994 Kendra Shaw - library research, tape transcription - St. Francis Xavier University Centre for Regional Studies.

1993 Jason MacLean - contacting organizations, collecting and entering data on a database -- University Council of Research.


COURSES ( Back )

Soc 100 Introduction to Sociology (1991-2002)
Soc 201 Traditions in Social Thought (1999-2000)
Soc 220 Social Movements (1991-97)
Soc 212 Social Dissent (1998, 2003)
Soc 302 Social Theory (1991-98)
Soc 323 Environment and Society I: Introduction (1996-2002)
Soc 423 Environment and Society II: Paradigms and Politics (1997-2003)


PUBLICATIONS -- Books  ( Back )

 

Bantjes, Rod. Social Movements in a Global Context. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2007

Bantjes, Rod. Improved Earth: The Architecture of Rural Space. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS -- Refereed Articles ( Back )
 

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Bantjes, Rod. "Regionalization and Environmental Governance in Atlantic Canada," in Regionalism in a Global Society: Persistence and Change in Atlantic Canada and New England edited by Charles Colgan & Stephen G. Tomblin.  Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004.

 

Bantjes, Rod. " Agricultural Extension and Resistance: Rural Governance as Spatial Practice. " Prairie Forum 26.2 (2002): 203-217.

Bantjes, Rod. " Modernism and the Machine Farmer ." Journal of Historical Sociology 13.2 (2000): 121-141.

Bantjes, Rod and Tanya Trussler. " Feminism and the Grass-Roots: Women and Environmentalism in Nova Scotia, 1980-83. " The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 36.2 (1999): 179-198.

Bantjes, Rod. " Hegemony and the Power of Constitution: Labour and Environmental Advocacy in Maine and Nova Scotia. " Studies in Political Economy 54 (1997): 59-90.

Bantjes, Rod. " Benthamism in the Countryside: The Architecture of Rural Space, 1900-1930. " Journal of Historical Sociology 10.3 (1997).

Bantjes, Rod. "Governing the Great Plains: Local Embodiments of State and Class Relations, 1880-1926." Studies in Political Economy 48 (1995): 71-106.

Bantjes, Rod. " An Imperfect Architecture of Power: Class and Local Government in Saskatchewan, 1908-1936. " Prairie Forum 20 (1995): 37-62.

Bantjes, Rod. " Improved Earth: Travel on the Canadian Prairies, 1920-1950 ." Journal of Transport History 13 (1992): 115-140. Reprint forthcoming in a volume edited by Theo Barker, published by Scolar Press.


PUBLICATIONS -- Other ( Back )

Bantjes, Rod. "Inside the World Summit -- A Delegate's Diary ." Between the Issues  20.3 (2002): 8-10.

REVIEWS

 Bantjes, Rod. Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Era of Globalization, by Jennifer Sumner. Labour/le Travail 58: 241.

Bantjes, Rod. Review of Producing Places, by Ray Hudson . Canadian Journal of Sociology Online , July - August 2002.

Bantjes, Rod. Review of Sociology after Postmodernism, edited by David Owen. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19 (1998): 84-85.

Bantjes, Rod. Review of From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada, by Robert Brym and Bonnie Fox. The International Journal of Comparative Sociology (1993).

Bantjes, Rod. Review of A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State , by Chandra Mukerji. The Canadian Journal of Sociology 17 (1992).

Bantjes, Rod. Review of Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village, by Victoria Bernal. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 29 (1992): 372-3.



CONFERENCES ( Back )

2003 "The Geography of “Global” Representation, " 6th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Sciences (NESS) June 12-14, 2003, Turku/Åbo, Finland.

2003 "Regionalization and Environmental Governance: Atlantic Canada and New England ," 6th Nordic Conference on Environmental Social Sciences (NESS) June 12-14, 2003, Turku/Åbo, Finland.

2001, Chair of session "Development and the State: Nova Scotia."  Centre for Regional Studies conference "Imagining a Region: Constructing and Deconstructing Atlantic Canada." St. Francis Xavier University, August 26, 2001.

2001 " Spaces of Environmental Governance and Resistance: The Case of New England /Atlantic Canada Regionalism, " Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, session "Space, Place, and the Politics of the Environment," San Francisco, California, March 30, 2001.

2000 " The Dominion Survey as Imperial Panorama: Inscriptions and Counter-Inscriptions ," Terms of Empire: Landscape and Writing, 1800-2000, University of Aberdeen, June 11, 2000

1998 "Unpopular Environmentalism: the Marginalization of the Environmental Movement in Nova Scotia," Centre for Regional Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, February 19,1998.

1997 "Feminism and the Grass Roots: Women and Environmentalism in Nova Scotia, 1980-83," Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) Annual Meeting, St. John's, Newfoundland, June 9, 1997.

1997 Discussant, "Environment and Hegemony," Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, St. John's, June 8, 1997.

1996 "Benthamism in the Countryside: The Architecture of Rural Space, 1900-1930," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 16, 1996.

1996 Discussant /presenter, "Social Movements: How Movement Impact is Shaped by Context," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 19, 1996.

1996 Discussant, "Social Movements II," CSAA Annual Meeting, St. Catharines, June 4, 1996.

1996 "Speaking for the Environment: Symbolic Struggle and the Power of Constitution in Maritime Environmental Politics," Annual General Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Political Studies Association, October, 1996, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

1995 "Post-Fordist Politics: Labour and Environmental Advocacy in Maine and Nova Scotia," CSAA Annual Meeting, Montréal, Quebec, June 6, 1994.

1994 "Fordism and Political Identity in the Maine and Nova Scotia Environmental Movements," CSAA Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 12, 1994.

1994 Discussant, "Flexible Work Arrangements: Current Trends and Their Implications," CSAA Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 11, 1994.

1994 Global Political Ecology Conference, Toronto, March 3-6, 1994, participant.

1993 "A New Geography of Power?

 `Remote work,' Locational Flexibility, Gender Practices and the Labour Process," Atlantic Anthropology and Sociology Association, Annual Meeting, Antigonish, NS, March 10, 1993.

1992 Session organizer, "The Politics of Independent Small Producers," Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Charlottetown, PEI, June 2, 1992.

 

 

COMMITTEES ( Back )

2001/2002 Advisory Committee for the Atlantic Canada Stats Can Regional Data Centre.

2000/2002 Editorial Board, Journal of Historical Sociology

2000/2003 Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Francis Xavier University

2000/2002 Academic Computing Committee, St. Francis Xavier University

1995-98 Board of Directors, Centre for Regional Studies

1996-97 Faculty Advisor to incoming students

1991-95 Library Representative, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1997/98 Handbook Committee, St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers

1997/98 Pilot Project: "Interactive Learning Software," co-funded by the St. Francis Xavier Teacher Innovation Initiative and the Nova Scotia Economic Renewal Agency ($3,000)

1997/98 Ad-Hoc Committee on Teaching Technologies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1996/97 Presidential Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women, St. Francis Xavier University

1996/97 Status of Women Committee, St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers

1996/97 Library Committee, Angus L. MacDonald Library, St. Francis Xavier University

1995/96 Service Learning Project, Nicaragua, February, 24 to March 3, 1996.

1996/97 Evaluation Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1994/95 Secretary, University Faculty, St. Francis Xavier University

1993/94 Adjudicator, Atlantic Anthropology and Sociology Association Student Essay Competition

1993/94 Organizer, public lectures: "Environmental Advocacy in Nova Scotia," Howard Epstein, Ecology Action Centre; "The Atlantic Fisheries Crisis," Bruno Marcocchio, Greenpeace

1992/93 Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

1992/93 Organizer, publishers' book display, Atlantic Association for Sociology and Anthropology Conference

1991/92 Workshop, "Co-operatives and Environmental Activism," for Responsible Action Committee on the Environment, St. Francis Xavier University

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