Researchers

Benjamin Forest
McGill University
Department of Geography
Address: 805 Sherbrooke St. West
Tel: 514-398-4111
Education
PhD Geography, UCLA
Research
Benjamin Forest is an Associate Professor at McGill University in the Department of Geography as well as an Associate Member of the Department of Political Science. A specialist in the field of political geography, his work revolves around the theme of diversity and electoral reform. In addition to being part of a project studying monuments and memorials in the post-Soviet sphere, Professor Forest is currently heading a project on diversity in party structures and constituencies in Canada. He is also working on research exploring municipal LGBTQ policies.
Research Interests
Research Axis
  • Axis 3: Representing and Governing Citizens in Critical Times - After learning and practicing democratic citizenship, the next critical steps are representation and governance. Democratic institutions are key elements. They shape the norms and incentives for active citizenship and they link citizens and their representatives in ways that foster accountability, legitimacy and representation. In Québec and Canada, as well as in other countries, confidence of citizens toward the institutions is low, as many dislike the way that members of parliaments behave and consider that politicians don’t honour their promises, hence various political endeavours to reform these institutions. Research on this axis will focus on the role of electoral systems, parliaments, parliamentary debates, and political parties.
Themes
Publications
The Territorial Politics of Representation
Journal: The Handbook of Political Geography
Year: 2008
First page:375
Last page: 388
Publisher: Sage Publications
Agent-Based Simulation of Urban Residential Dynamics and Land Rent Change in a Gentrifying Area of Boston
Journal: Transactions in GIS
Volume: 12
Issue: 4
Year: 2008
First page:475
Last page: 491
Political Representation
Journal: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Volume: 254
Issue: 259
Year: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier
Concepts géographiques dans la loi: échelle, ségrégation et les minorités raciales
Journal: Géographie du droit: Epistémologie, développement et perspectives
Volume: 93
Issue: 116
Year: 2009
Publisher: Presses de l¿Université Laval
Electoral Geography
Journal: Encyclopedia of Geography
Year: 2010
Publisher: Sage Publications
The Politics of Public Space: Regime Type and Public Memory in Post-Communist States, 1996-2008.
Journal: Post-Soviet Affairs
Year: 2010
Monumental Politics: Regime Type and Public Memory in Post-Communist States
Journal: Post-Soviet Affairs
Volume: 27
Issue: 3
Year: 2011
First page:269
Last page: 288
Engineering the North American Waterscape: The High Modernist Mapping of Continental Water Transfer Projects
Journal: Political Geography
Volume: 31
Issue: 3
Year: 2012
First page:167
Last page: 183
Electoral Redistricting and Minority Political Representation in Canada and the United States
Journal: The Canadian Geographer
Volume: 56
Issue: 3
Year: 2012
First page:318
Last page: 338
The Imputed Demographic and Political Characteristics of the Proposed Federal Ridings for Quebec
Journal: Report submitted to the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Quebec
Year: 2012
It's time for effective representation for national minorities
Journal: Montreal Gazette
Year: 2012
Place: Montreal
It's time for effective representation for national minorities
Journal: The Montreal Gazette
Year: 2012
Place: Montreal
It’s time for effective representation for national minorities
Journal: The Gazette
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Benjamin Forest
Security and Atonement: Controlling Access to the World Trade Center Memorial
Journal: cultural geographies
Volume: 20
Issue: 3
Year: 2013
First page:405
Last page: 411
Juliet Johnson
Redistricting and the Elusive Ideals of Representation
Journal: Political Geography
Volume: 32
Issue: 1
Year: 2013
First page:15
Last page: 17
La géographie de l’élection 2012 au Québec
Journal: Les Québécois aux urnes: les partis, les médias et les citoyens en campagne
Year: 2013
First page:247
Last page: 266
Place: Montréal
Publisher: Presses UdM
Representation of Minority Communities in the Canadian and American Political Systems
Journal: Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law
Year: 2014
Non-Contiguous Ridings: A Proposal for Enhancing Aboriginal Parliamentary Representation
Journal: Inroads Journal
Volume: 34
Year: 2014
First page:118
Last page: 125
Mike Medeiros
Unrepresented No More: Noncontiguous ridings could enhance Aboriginals' voice in our political institutions
Journal: Inroads
Year: 2014
Mike Medeiros
Unrepresented No More: Noncontiguous Ridings could Enhance Aboriginals’ Voice in our Political Institutions
Journal: In Roads
Volume: 34
Issue: 9
Year: 2014
First page:119
Last page: 125
Benjamin Forest
Electoral Geography
Journal: International Encyclopedia of Geography
Year: 2016
Legal Geography
Journal: International Encyclopedia of Geography
Year: 2016
Legal Geographies
Journal: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology
Year: 2017
Place: Chichester
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Electoral Geographies
Journal: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology
Year: 2017
Place: Chichester
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Confederate Monuments and the Problem of Forgetting
Journal: Cultural Geographies
Year: 2018
Juliet Johnson
Where Women Stand: Female Parliamentary Candidate Selection in Canada
Journal: Politics, Groups and Identities
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Year: 2019
First page:389
Last page: 400
Still Not There: Continued Challenges to Women’s Political Representation
Journal: Politics, Groups, and Identities
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Year: 2019
First page:386
Last page: 388
Where Women Stand: Parliamentary Candidate Selection in Canada
Journal: Politics, Groups, and Identities
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Year: 2019
First page:389
Last page: 400
Mike Medeiros
Chris Erl
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