{"id":2773,"date":"2018-02-08T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=2773"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:53","slug":"jill-wigle","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/jill-wigle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Wigle"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As an urban geographer, I\u2019m broadly interested in housing, planning and urban governance issues and their relationship to precarity and equity. In Mexico City, my research has focused on the geographies of \u201cinformal\u201d housing and spatial regulation; everyday planning practices, space and gender; and city-making and the politics of neighbourhood upgrading. This research explores access to land and housing, the right to the city, and the ways that \u201cformal\u201d planning practices produce \u201cinformality\u201d in different territories of the city. More recently, I\u2019ve started to explore affordable housing and community land trusts as part of the Carleton\u2019s multidisciplinary research project,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/a-safe-and-affordable-place-to-call-home-a-multi-disciplinary-longitudinal-outcomes-analysis-of-the-national-housing-strategy\/\">A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home (2023-2033)<\/a>. At Carleton, I\u2019m cross-appointed to the Institute of Political Economy (IPE) and participate in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program. I welcome graduate students with related research interests. Some students may also be interested in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.carleton.ca\/grad\/gradprograms\/geography\/#MA_Geography__with_Specialization_in_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_Studies\">MA Geography with Specialization in Latin American and Caribbean Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"2024-2025-courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2024-2025 Courses<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Community-engaged Research (GEOG 4450), Fall 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approaches to Geographic Inquiry (GEOG 5000), Fall 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cities in a Global World (GEOG 3023), Winter 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico-City-field-course-promo-poster_2025.pdf\">Regional Field Excursion: Mexico City (GEOG 3030), May 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The social production of housing and the right to the city<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Urban planning, spatial regulation, power and precarity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Affordable housing and community land trusts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill&nbsp;Wigle,&nbsp;Laura&nbsp;Macdonald,&nbsp;Lucy&nbsp;Luccisano&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Paula&nbsp;Maurutto. 2023.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/07352166.2023.2250025\">Struggles over city-making: The community program for neighborhood improvement in Mexico City.<\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Journal of Urban Affairs.&nbsp;<\/em>pp.1-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill and Lorena Z\u00e1rate.2022. Claiming the right to the city in Mexico City: From lived experience to mobilizing for change, in Patricia Ballamingie and David Szanto (eds.)&nbsp;<em>Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes<\/em>. Showing Theory Press. Available at:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub\/showingtheory\/\">https:\/\/ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub\/showingtheory\/<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22215\/stkt\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22215\/stkt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill and Lorena Z\u00e1rate. 2022. The right to the city in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Jes\u00fas Gonz\u00e1lez-P\u00e9rez, Clara Iraz\u00e1bal Zurita and Rub\u00e9n Lois-Gonz\u00e1lez (eds.)&nbsp;<em>Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill. 2020.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0094582X19898199\">Fast-track redevelopment and slow-track regularization: The uneven geographies of spatial regulation in Mexico City<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Latin American Perspectives&nbsp;<\/em>47 (6): 56-76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hungrycities.net\/publication\/hcp-report-no-7-urban-food-system-mexico-city-mexico\/\"><em>Hungry Cities Partnership Report No. 7: The Urban Food System of Mexico City, Mexico<\/em>.<\/a>&nbsp;2017. Cape Town, South Africa and Waterloo, Canada: African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town and Wilfrid Laurier University\/Balsillie School of International Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connolly, Priscilla and Jill Wigle. 2017.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/14649357.2017.1279678\">(Re)constructing Informality and \u201cDoing Regularization\u201din the Conservation Zone of Mexico City<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Planning Theory and Practice<\/em>, 18 (2): 183-201.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill. 2016. De \u00c1reas Verdes a Zonas Grises: Gobernanza del Espacio y Asentamientos Irregulares en Xochimilco, Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, in Antonio Azuela (Ed.)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ru.iis.sociales.unam.mx\/jspui\/handle\/IIS\/5234\"><em>La Ciudad y Sus Reglas: Sobre la Huella del Derecho en el Orden Urbano<\/em><\/a>. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones, UNAM and PAOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill. 2014.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1468-2427.12019\/abstract\">The \u201cgraying\u201d of \u201cgreen\u201d zones: Spatial governance and irregular settlement in Xochimilco, Mexico City.&nbsp;<\/a><em>International Journal of Urban and Regional Research<\/em>. 38(2): 573-589.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill and Lorena Z\u00e1rate. 2012.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannersnetwork.org\/2012\/10\/fall-2012-communities-and-design\/\">Realizing the Right to the City: From declaration to action?<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Progressive Planning<\/em>&nbsp;193: 35-38.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill. 2010.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264275110000673\">The \u201cXochimilco model\u201d for managing irregular settlements in conservation land in Mexico City<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Cities<\/em>&nbsp;27: 337\u2013347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill. 2010.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/usj.sagepub.com\/content\/47\/2\/411\">Social Relations, Property and \u201cPeripheral\u201d Informal Settlement: The Case of Ampliaci\u00f3n San Marcos, Mexico City<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Urban Studies<\/em>&nbsp;47(2): 411\u2013436.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wigle, Jill. 2008.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/13563470802521390\">Shelter, Location and Livelihoods: Exploring the Linkages in Mexico City.<\/a>&nbsp;<em>International Planning Studies<\/em>&nbsp;13 (3): 197-222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"graduate-student-supervision\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Student Supervision<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>2018-2020. Lucia Morales Vargas, MA student in Human Geography. <em>Gender Mobility on Guatemala City\u2019s Transmetro:<\/em> <em>Women\u2019s lived experiences of public transportation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019- Monika Imeri, PhD student in Human Geography (co-supervision with Professor David Hugill)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019- Jessica Sperry, MA student in Human Geography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2018- Lucia Morales Vargas, MA student in Human Geography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017- Lorna Quiroga, PhD student in Human Geography (co-supervision with Professor Christina Rojas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017-2019 Paulina Ascencio Ramos, MA student in Human Geography.&nbsp;<em>Everyday Experiences of Women in Mass-produced Housing in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, Mexico<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010-2016&nbsp;&nbsp; Andrea Carri\u00f3n, PhD, DGES, co-supervised with Professor Derek Smith.&nbsp;<em>The Spatial Restructuring of Resource Regulation. The Gold Mining Enclave of Zaruma and Portovelo, Ecuador (1860-1980).&nbsp;<\/em>Winner of the 2017 award for best doctoral dissertation, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013-2016&nbsp;&nbsp; Alex Copp, &nbsp;MA, DGES,&nbsp;<em>From Urban Forests to Neighbourhood Treescapes: An Examination of Power, Actors and Processes in Champlain Park, Ottawa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013-2014&nbsp;&nbsp; Glennys Egan, MA, IPE, co-supervised with Professor Blair Rutherford. \u2018<em>Actually-existing\u2019 Neoliberalism in Nairobi, Kenya: Examining Informal Traders\u2019 Negotiations over Access to the Entrepreneurial City<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010-2013&nbsp;&nbsp; Chris Bisson, MA, DGES, co-supervised with Professor Patricia Ballamingie.&nbsp;<em>Forests for the People: Resisting Neoliberalism through Permaculture Design.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2774,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jill","cu_people_last_name":"Wigle","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[52],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2773","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-geography-env-studies"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"MSc.Planning (University of Toronto) Ph.D. (University of Toronto)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jill.wigle@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}