Professor Ian
MacLachlan
Department of Geography
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta
T1J 2N2
Office: UH-B872
Phone: +001 (403) 329-2076
Fax: +001 (403) 329-2016
E-mail: maclachlan at uleth.ca
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For Students in Spring 2010 semester:
Geography 1010 Week: Urban geography
Biography
I was born and raised in Montreal,
obtained my B.A. (Honours, 1976) and M.A. (1981) from Carleton University in Ottawa, and completed
my doctorate at the University of Toronto
in 1990. While working on my doctorate I taught in geography departments at University of Toronto at Mississauga
(1985-86), University of Windsor
(1986-88), and Carleton (1988-89) before I joined the Department of Geography
at the University of Lethbridge in 1989.
In 1991, I taught
International Studies on a faculty exchange with Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo,
Japan. I was a Research Associate at the Instituto de Geografía,
Universidad Autónoma de México during study leave, 1995-1996. On my second
study leave, in 2003-04, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
As an economic geographer, I have broad interests
concerned with the changing industrial landscape and the implications of
industrial restructuring for the growth and decline of metropolitan areas. In
recent years, I have grown more concerned with rural regions and the
livestock-meat commodity chain has become the dominant strand in my research
program. The processing of livestock has led me in different directions from an
initiative by Edinburgh’s Fleshers to build a collective shambles in the late
eighteenth century, to the gritty perseverance of London’s private butchers to
maintain their private slaughter houses in the late nineteenth century, to the
industrial restructuring of the North American packinghouse industry in the
late twentieth century. Currently my research is unified by a concern with the
political economy of livestock production and meat processing and the global
issues ensuing from the livestock revolution and growing trade in livestock
products. I am currently Editor-in-Chief of The
Canadian Geographer, thus much of the time that would ordinarily be
invested in my own research is shared with other Canadian geographers pursuing
diverse topics spanning the breadth of geographical endeavour.
For recreation, I
maintain, demolish and rebuild different parts of the 95 year old house that I
share with Diane Clark. Canoeing, downhill skiing, recreational cycling, hiking
in the Alberta Rockies, and riding my Boulevard C50
are avocations I do too seldom.
Current Research Interests
Canada's beef and
cattle commodity chain and restructuring of the meatpacking industry
Slaughterhouse reform
and historical geography of public abattoirs in Canada and the UK
Humane Slaughter
Livestock revolution
and its global implications
Other Research Interests (noncurrent)
Maquiladoras and Income
Distribution in Mexico City
Spatial Distribution of
Income in Canada’s Metropolitan Areas
Economic Development
Issues in Alberta
Industrial Plant
Closure in Ontario
Shift and Share models
Recent Publications
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MacLachlan, Ian
2009 “Betting the Farm: Food Safety, Risk Society, and the Canadian Cattle and
Beef Commodity Chain” in Food and Fuel: Solutions
for the Future edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon (Toronto:
House of Anansi Press): 29-60.
MacLachlan, Ian 2008 “Humanitarian Reform, Slaughter Technology, and Butcher Resistance in
Nineteenth-Century Britain” in Meat, Modernism and the Rise of
the Slaughterhouse edited by Paula Lee (Hanover, NH: University Press
of New England): 107-126.
MacLachlan, Ian 2007 “A bloody offal nuisance: The persistence of
private slaughter-houses in nineteenth century London” Urban History 34(2): 227-254
MacLachlan, Ian 2006 “Coup de
Grâce: Humane Slaughter in Nineteenth Century Britain” Food &
History 3(2): 145-171. (Password
protected)
Croil, Spencer and Ian MacLachlan 2005/06 “Your Call Is
Important to Us: Call Centres in Lethbridge, Alberta” Western Geography 15/16: 1-27.
MacLachlan, Ian 2005 “Feedlot Growth in Southern Alberta: A
Neo-Fordist Interpretation” in Rural Change and Sustainability:
Agriculture, the Environment and Communities edited by Andrew Gilg, Richard
Yarwood, Stephen Essex, John Smithers and Randall Wilson (London, CABI
Publishing): 28-47. (Password protected)
MacLachlan, Ian, Nancy Bateman, and Thomas R.R.
Johnston 2005 “Cultivating
a New Cattle Culture: Beef Production and Grassland Management in Alberta”
in Presenting and Representing Natural
Environments edited by Graham Humphrys and Michael Williams, The GeoJournal
Library Volume 81 (Amsterdam, Springer): 181-195.
Book
Kill
and Chill: Restructuring Canada’s Beef Commodity Chain by Ian MacLachlan
(University of Toronto Press, 2001)
Op-Ed
Maclachlan, Ian and Bruce MacKay 2009 “Lethbridge: Alberta’s
Airline Hub of Yesteryear” The Lethbridge Herald August 1
MacLachlan, Ian 2008 “In praise of
complementarity: Why attend both the AAG and the CAG Annual Meetings?”
Canadian Association of Geographers Newsletter 15(3) May-June: 11-12
Unpublished manuscripts
MacLachlan,
Ian and Ivan Townshend
2007 Regional Impacts of BSE in
Alberta: Exploring Regional and Structural Dynamics of Alberta’s Cattle Herd
Using a Shift-Share Model Revised May 2008
MacLachlan, Ian 2006 “The Historical Development
of Cattle Production in Canada” Unpublished manuscript
MacLachlan, Ian 2004 “Industrial Development of
Lethbridge: A Geographical Interpretation” Unpublished manuscript
The Canadian
Geographer/Le Géographe canadien
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