Susan Ruddick

Professor Emeritus

Areas of interest

  • Continental philosophy and geography
  • Urban wildlife
  • Anti-colonial and anti-racist and feminist ecologies
  • More-than-human geographies

Biography

Main Bio

Sue Ruddick is a professor emerita in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She has worked at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory and geography. Over her thirty-year career, she has explored the ways the city has accommodated or inhibited a range of unruly subjects. Substantively her work has focused the ways the organization of cities has accommodated or inhibited the daily lives of homeless youth, young people with mobility issues, and most recently urban wildlife. Her publications can be found in Theory, Culture and Society; Society and Space; Antipode; Public Culture, Urban Geography and Intellectual History Review. She has worked in city and community planning in Montreal and Los Angeles.

Following the publication of the IPCC report in 2017, she has taught a graduate course on the geography and planning of climate activism.