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Mariana Valverde

Mariana Valverde

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D-Index
35
Citations
6342
World Ranking
163
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Mariana Valverde is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has made contributions primarily within the field of social sciences, with a focus on law, sociology, political science, and management. Their work spans various subfields including law, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, strategy and management, and finance.

Their research topics cover a broad range of themes such as law in society and culture, legal and policy issues, the political and economic history of the UK and US, community development and social impact, public-private partnership projects, legal principles and applications, and income, poverty, and inequality.

Valverde has published several papers, some of which are:

  • Public universities as real estate developers in the age of "the art of the deal" (2020), published in Studies in Political Economy
  • Games of Jurisdiction: How Local Governance Realities Challenge the "Creatures of the Province" Doctrine (2021), published in Journal of Law and Social Policy

Other relevant papers affiliated with their frequent coauthors include:

  • Where The Sidewalk Ends: The Governance Of Waterfront Toronto's Sidewalk Labs Deal (2020), presented in Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

Mariana Valverde has collaborated regularly with a number of scholars, including Moritz Baumgärtel, Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda, Alexandra Flynn, Jacqueline Briggs, and Grace Tran.

They have published books with Cambridge University Press, including Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance (2022), which has garnered citations within academic circles.

Valverde has had papers published in venues known for legal and social inquiry discourse, including Law & Social Inquiry, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Studies in Political Economy, Journal of Law and Social Policy, and Social & Legal Studies.

In recognition of their contributions, Mariana Valverde was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006, an honor granted by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Diseases of the will : alcohol and the dilemmas of freedom

    Mariana Valverde

  • Pleasure, Freedom and Drugs The Uses of‘Pleasure’ in Liberal Governance of Drug and Alcohol Consumption

    Pat O’Malley;Mariana Valverde

  • The age of light, soap, and water : moral reform in English Canada, 1885-1925

    Mariana Valverde

  • Chronotopes of Law

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  • Jurisdiction and Scale: Legal `Technicalities' as Resources for Theory:

    Mariana Valverde

  • Governed By Law

    Nikolas Rose;Mariana Valverde

  • ‘Despotism’ and ethical liberal governance

    Mariana Valverde

  • Seeing Like a City: The Dialectic of Modern and Premodern Ways of Seeing in Urban Governance

    Mariana Valverde

  • Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge

    Mariana Valverde

  • Everyday Law on the Street

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  • Questions of security: A framework for research

    Mariana Valverde

  • Maidens at risk: 'date rape drugs' and the formation of hybrid risk knowledges

    Dawn Moore;Mariana Valverde

  • The new police science : the police power in domestic and international governance

    Markus Dirk Dubber;Mariana Valverde

  • ‘Slavery from within’: The invention of alcoholism and the question of free will∗

    Mariana Valverde

  • Chronotopes of Law: Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance

    Mariana Valverde

  • From deserving victims to 'masters of confusion': Redefining refugees in the 1990s

    Anna Pratt;Mariana Valverde

  • Studying Law by Association: Bruno Latour Goes to the Conseil d’État

    Ron Levi;Mariana Valverde

  • `One Day at a Time' and other Slogans for Everyday Life: The Ethical Practices of Alcoholics Anonymous:

    Mariana Valverde;Kimberley White-Mair

  • Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity

    Mariana Valverde

  • Studying the governance of crime and security: Space, time and jurisdiction

    Mariana Valverde

  • Police science, British style: pub licensing and knowledges of urban disorder

    Mariana Valverde

  • Genealogies of European states: Foucauldian reflections

    Mariana Valverde

  • Taking 'land use' seriously: toward an ontology of municipal law

    Mariana Valverde

  • The Mixed Social Economy as a Canadian Tradition

    Mariana Valverde

  • Authorizing the Production of Urban Moral Order: Appellate Courts and Their Knowledge Games

    Mariana Valverde

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus D. Dubber
Markus D. Dubber University of Toronto
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose King's College London
Clifford Shearing
Clifford Shearing University of Cape Town

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