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
Study
Leave 2011-2012
I shall be
resident in Perth at the University of Western Australia from June 28, 2011
until about August 1, 2012. You can reach me at my usual e-mail address during
this time but response time may sometimes be slow.
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. My third study leave is currently underway in the Geography
Discipline, School of Earth and
Environment, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University
of Western Australia where I shall be a Visiting Scholar until August 1, 2012.
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 shall be Editor-in-Chief of The
Canadian Geographer until December 31, 2011 thus my research time is shared
with other geographers pursuing diverse topics spanning the breadth of
geographical endeavour.
For recreation, I
maintain, demolish and rebuild different parts of the 98 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
Economic geography of
Western Australia
Livestock revolution
and its global implications
Live food animal exports
from Australia
Canada's beef and
cattle commodity chain and restructuring of the meatpacking industry
Global consumption
patterns
Other
Research Interests (noncurrent)
Slaughterhouse reform
and historical geography of public abattoirs in Canada and the UK
Humane Slaughter
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
(Please contact
me for access to password protected items)
MacLachlan, Ian and Ivan Townshend 2010 “Regional
Impacts of BSE in Alberta: Exploring Regional and Structural Dynamics of
Alberta’s Cattle Herd Using a Shift-Share Model” Geographical Perspectives on
Sustainable Rural Change Chapter 14, edited by Dick
G. Winchell, Rhonda Koster, Doug Ramsey and Guy M. Robinson, Brandon
University: Rural Development Institute, 263-283.
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
(University of Toronto Press, 2001)
Op-Ed & Short Articles
MacLachlan,
Ian 2011 “Progress
in human development affects what people eat” The Public Professor Lethbridge Herald January 8, p. A5.
MacLachlan, Ian 2010 “Global
trends in meat consumption and livestock production” The Public Professor Lethbridge Herald December 11, p. A4.
MacLachlan,
Ian 2010 “Tips for journal contributors: How to submit an article to a
peer-reviewed journal” University Affairs
51:8 (October):88.
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 2004 Bifactor Partitioning: Assessing a New Model of Regional
Growth and Structural Change (Protected)
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
Europe 2011 for Geography 2000
The Canadian
Geographer/Le Géographe canadien
Courses taught recently
http://classes.uleth.ca/200703/geog2210a/
http://classes.uleth.ca/200703/geog3235a/
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http://classes.uleth.ca/200803/geog2210a/
http://classes.uleth.ca/200803/geog3235a/
http://classes.uleth.ca/200903/geog2240a/