GLEN BODEN NORCLIFFE
Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, York University
Degrees
| 1965 | B.A.(Geography) University of Cambridge |
| 1967 | M.A.(Geography) University of Toronto |
| 1970 | Ph.D.(Geography) University of Bristol |
| 2006 | D.Sc. (Geography) University of Bristol |
Employment History
| 1970–2008 | Assistant Professor (1970-74) Associate Professor (1974-88) and Professor (1988-2008) Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, York University. |
| 1975–76 | Planning Advisor, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Republic of Kenya. |
| 1979–81 | Director, York University Kenyan Graduate Training Programme. |
| 1980–88 | Fenceviewer under the Line Fences Act (1979) for the Town of Vaughan. |
| 1984–87 | Chair, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, York University. |
| 1988–89 | Professeur Invité, Département de Géographie, Université Lumière, Lyon 2, France. |
Awards and Fellowships
| 1977 | Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. |
| 1981–82 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Leave Fellowship. |
| 1981–82 | University Research Fellow, University of Bristol. |
| 1987–88 | York University, Faculty of Arts Research Fellowship. |
| 1988–89 | Professeur Invité, L'Université Lumière, Lyon 2. |
| 1996-97 | Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester. |
| 1998 | The Fairman Prize of the American Precision Museum for contributions to the historical geography of mass production. |
| 2003 | Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction. |
| 2003 | The Robert McNair History Award of the American Wheelman for contributions to the history of cycling. |
| 2006 | Doctor of Science (University of Bristol). |
| 2011 | Visiting Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. |
| 2013 | Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. |
| 2017 | Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. |
Publications
1969 Glen Norcliffe: “On the Use and Limitations of Trend Surface Models” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 13, pp. 338–348.
1969 Glen Norcliffe: “The Role of Scale in Locational Analysis: the Case of the Phormium Industry in St. Helena” Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 29, pp. 49–57.
1969 Glen Norcliffe: “An Alternative Method for Identifying the Characteristic Scale of a Periodic Spatial Series” Area, Vol. 1 (4), pp. 21–28.
1972 Glen Norcliffe: “Canonical Analysis of the Relations Between Certain Aspects of the Demographic and Urban Systems of the Republic of Ireland” Irish Geography, Vol. 13, pp. 411–427.
1972 Glen Norcliffe: “Probability Mapping of Growth Processes” Economic Geography, Vol. 48, pp. 428–438.
1974 Glen Norcliffe: “Territorial Influences in Urban Political Space: A Study of Perception in Kitchener-Waterloo” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 18, pp. 311–329.
1974 G.B. Norcliffe and C. Heidenreich “The Preferred Orientation of Iroquoian Longhouses in Ontario” Ontario Archaeology, No. 23, pp. 3–30.
1974 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Dimensions of Canadian Regionalism by D.M. Ray, in Canadian Geographer, Vol. 18(3), pp. 206–207.
1975 Glen Norcliffe: “A Theory of Manufacturing Places,” in The Locational Dynamics of Manufacturing Activity in L. Collins and D.F. Walker (editors) (London: Wiley) pp. 19–57.
1977 Glen Norcliffe: Inferential Statistics for Geographers: An introduction (Hutchinson: London), 272pp.; 1979 (2nd impression, with revisions); 1982 (2nd edition, 264pp.); 1983 (3rd impression, with revisions); 1985 (4th impression, with revisions). Subsequently published in German (1981) as Schliessende Statistik für Geographen: Eine Einführung (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), and in Poland (1986) as Statystyka dla Geografow (Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe).
1977 Glen Norcliffe: “Discretionary Aspects of Scientific Districting” Area, Vol. 9, pp. 240–246.
1977 G.B. Norcliffe and P. Mitchell: “Structural Effects and Provincial Productivity Variations in Canadian Manufacturing Industry” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 10, pp. 695–701.
1977 Glen Norcliffe: “A Components Model for Disaggregating Regional Productivity Variations” Regional Studies, Vol. 11, pp. 395–400.
1977 Glen Norcliffe: “The Measurement of Spatial Association: a Comment” Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 7(2), pp. 93–98.
1977 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Industrial Location and Planning in the United Kingdom by D.E. Keeble, in Economic Geography, Vol. 53(3), pp. 305–306.
1979 Glen Norcliffe: “Identifying Local Industrial Complexes” Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 2, pp. 25–36.
1979 G.B. Norcliffe and J.H. Stevens: “The Heckscher-Ohlin Hypothesis and Structural Divergence in Central Canada, 1961–1969” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 23, pp. 239–254.
1979 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Models of Cities and Regions edited by A.G. Wilson, P.H. Rees and C.M. Leigh, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 31, pp. 254–255.
1980 Glen Norcliffe: “Industrial Development and Port Activity in Halifax-Dartmouth”, Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 6, pp. 533–541.
1980 Tom Pinfold and Glen Norcliffe, editors, Development Planning in Kenya: Essays on Policy Issues and the Planning Process (Toronto: Geographical Monographs No. 9, Atkinson College, York University, 210pp.)
1980 G.B. Norcliffe and L.E. Kotseff: “Local Industrial Complexes in Ontario” Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 70, pp. 68–79.
1980 G.B. Norcliffe and D.B. Freeman: “Nonfarm Activities in Market Centres of Central Province, Kenya,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 14, pp. 503–517.
1981 Glen Norcliffe and Tom Pinfold, editors, Planning African Development: The Kenyan Experience (London: Croom Helm, and Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 201pp.). Re-issued in 2011 in the Routledge Revivals series.
1981 Glen Norcliffe: “Processes Affecting Industrial Development in Port Areas in Canada,” in B.S. Hoyle and D.A. Pinder (editors) Cityport Industrialization and Regional Development: Spatial Analysis and Planning Strategies, (Oxford: Pergamon Press) pp. 151–165.
1981 Don Freeman and Glen Norcliffe: “The Rural Nonfarm Sector and the Development Process in Kenya,” in G.B. Norcliffe and T. Pinfold (editors) Planning African Development (London: Croom Helm), pp. 62–78.
1981 Clay Wescott and Glen Norcliffe: “Towards a Locational Policy for Manufacturing Industry in Kenya,” in G.B. Norcliffe and T. Pinfold (editors) Planning African Development (London: Croom Helm), pp. 79–109.
1981 Glen Norcliffe: “Industrial Change in Old Port Areas,” Cahiers de Géographie du Québec, Vol. 25, pp. 237–254.
1981 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Planning Industrial Development edited by David F. Walker, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 71, pp. 471–473.
1981 Glen Norcliffe: Review ofThe Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species by Norman Myers, in The CELA Newsletter, Vol. 6(2), pp. 37–40.
1982 G.B. Norcliffe and A.G. Hoare: “Enterprise Zone Policy for the Inner City: A Review and Preliminary Assessment,” Area, Vol. 14, pp. 265–274.
1982 Glen Norcliffe: “Informal Industry and Development: Observations based on the operating Characteristics of Enterprises in Central Province, Kenya,” in L. Collins (editor) Industrial Activity and Area Development (Edinburgh: Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh) pp. 237–247.
1983 Glen Norcliffe: Industrial Development in Canadian Ports, University of Toronto/York University Joint Programme in Transportation, Research Report, No. 86, 108pp.
1983 Don Freeman and Glen Norcliffe: “The Rural Nonfarm Sector: Development Opportunity or Employer of Last Resort,” Ceres, Vol. 16(1), pp. 28–34.
1983 Glen Norcliffe: “Operating Characteristics of Rural Non-farm Enterprises in Central Province, Kenya,” World Development, Vol. 11, pp. 981–994.
1983 Glen Norcliffe: “Using Location Quotients to Estimate the Economic Base and Trade Flows,” Regional Studies, Vol. 17, pp. 161–168.
1983 Glen Norcliffe: (Review Article) “A CATMOG in Gloves Catches no Mice,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 7(2), pp. 181–188.
1983 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Cover-Up: The Facts They Don't Want You To Know, by Nicholas Hilyard, in The CELA Newsletter, Vol. 8(3), pp. 54–57.
1984 D.B. Freeman and G.B. Norcliffe: “Relations between the Rural Nonfarm and Small Farm Sectors in Central Province, Kenya,” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 75, pp. 61–73.
1984 Glen Norcliffe: “Nonmetropolitan Industrialisation and the Theory of Production,” Urban Geography, Vol. 5, pp. 25–42.
1984 Nicholas Miles and Glen Norcliffe: “An Economic Typology of Rural Nonfarm Enterprises in Central Province, Kenya,” Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 9(2), pp. 150–170.
1984 D.B. Freeman and G.B. Norcliffe: “National and Regional Patterns of Rural Nonfarm Employment in Kenya,” Geography, Vol. 69, pp. 221–233.
1984 James Cameron and Glen Norcliffe: “Science and Politics in Electoral Districting: the Ward System of the Town of Vaughan, Ontario,” Ontario Geography, No. 24, pp. 63–80.
1984 G. Norcliffe, D. Freeman and N. Miles: “Rural Industrialisation in Kenya,” in Enyinna Chuta and S.V. Sethuraman, editors, Rural Small-Scale Industries and Employment in Africa and Asia (Geneva: International Labour Office), pp. 9–24.
1984 Glen Norcliffe: “Industrial Specialisation vs Industrial Diversification: An Assessment of Policy Alternatives,” in B.M. Barr and N. Waters (editors) Strategies for Regional Industrial Diversification and Change (Vancouver: Tantalus Research; B.C. Geographical Series No. 39), pp. 7–24.
1985 Glen Norcliffe: “The Industrial Geography of the Third World” in M. Pacione (editor) Progress in Industrial Geography (London: Croom Helm) pp. 249–283.
1985 Donald B. Freeman and Glen B. Norcliffe: Rural Enterprise in Kenya: Development and Spatial Organisation of the Nonfarm Sector, University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper No. 214, 180pp.
1985 James Cameron and Glen Norcliffe: “The Canadian Constitution and the Political Muskeg of One Person, One Vote,” The Operational Geographer, No. 8, pp. 30–34.
1985 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Population Growth, Employment and Economic-Demographic Interactions in Kenya: Bachue-Kenya by Richard Anker and James C. Knowles, in Third World Quarterly, Vol. 7(3), p. 751.
1986 Glen Norcliffe, Michael Goldrick and Leon Muszynski: “Cyclical Factors, Technological Change, Capital Mobility and De-Industrialisation in Metropolitan Toronto.” Urban Geography, Vol. 7, pp. 413–436.
1986 Dennis Mock and Glen Norcliffe: “Toronto's Industry in the Post-Industrial Era,” City Planning, Vol. 4(1), pp. 30–33.
1987 Glen Norcliffe: “Regional Unemployment in Canada in the 1981–1984 Recession,” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 31, pp. 150–159.
1987 Glen Norcliffe: (Review Article) “A Reappraisal of Canadian Regional Development,” Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 10, pp. 375–385.
1988 Robert Blain and Glen Norcliffe: “Japanese Investment in Canada and Canadian exports to Japan 1965–1984,” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 32, pp. 141–150.
1988 Glen Norcliffe: “Industrial structure and labour market adjustments in Canada during the 1981–84 recession”, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 11, pp. 201–226.
1989 Glen Norcliffe: “Lyon et Toronto: le trajet de deux étoiles vers une constellation homogène”. Résonances, No. 43. pp. 23–29.
1990 Glen Norcliffe and Donna Smith Featherstone: “International Influences on Regional Unemployment Patterns in Canada During the 1981–84 Recession”, in R. Hayter and P. Wilde (editors) Industrial Transformation and Challenge in Australia and Canada (Ottawa: Carleton University Press) pp. 73–92.
1990 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Labour, Environment and Industrial Change, edited by G.J.R. Linge and G.A. van der Knaap, in Canadian Geographer, Vol. 34, pp. 281–2.
1991 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Economic Growth, Stagnation and the Working Population in Western Europe, by L. Ahnström in Environment and Planning, A, Vol. 26(6), pp. 924–5.
1992 Paul Simpson-Housley and Glen Norcliffe, editors, A Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada. (Toronto: Dundurn Press 277pp.).
1992 Glen Norcliffe and Paul Simpson-Housley: “No vacant Eden” in P. Simpson-Housley and G. Norcliffe (editors) A Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canadian Landscapes. (Toronto: Dundurn Press) pp. 1–15.
1992 Glen Norcliffe: “In a Hard Land: the Geographical Context of Canadian Industrial Landscape Painting”, in P. Simpson-Housley and G. Norcliffe (editors) A Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada. (Toronto: Dundurn Press) pp. 71–85.
1993 Glen Norcliffe: “The Economic Landscape”, in J.R. Gibson (editor) Canada: Geographical Interpretations: Essays in Honour of John Warkentin (North York: Geographical Monographs) pp. 213–231.
1993 Glen Norcliffe: “The regulation of Gerland: From Mass Production to Flexible Production in Tony Garnier's `Cité Industrielle',” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 17, pp. 195–212.
1993 Glen Norcliffe and Xiao-Feng Liu: “Home, work and locality: the case of Thorold, Ontario,” Urban Geography, Vol. 14, pp.251–276.
1993 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Britain and Canada in the 1990s, edited by D.K. Adams in Environment and Planning, A, Vol. 25, pp. 1056–57.
1994 Glen Norcliffe: “Regional labour market adjustments in a period of structural transformation: an assessment of the Canadian case”, Canadian Geographer, Vol. 38, p. 2–17.
1994 G.B. Norcliffe and T.Z. Bartschat: “Locational avoidance by nonmetropolitan industry”, Environment and Planning, A, Vol. 26, pp. 1123–1145.
1994 Roy Merrens and Glen Norcliffe: “L.S. Lowry and the heritage movement”, Manchester Region Historical Review, Vol. 8, pp.50–53.
1995 Glen Norcliffe: “The regulation of restructuring: Corner Brook 1984,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 13, pp. 315–334.
1995 Glen Norcliffe: “Social reproduction and civic icons: revisioning Toronto's city halls” in C. Stadel and H. Suida (editors) Themes and Issues in Canadian Geography I, (Salzburg, Austria: Institute of Geography, University of Salzburg) pp. 75–84.
1995 Glen Norcliffe: Review of Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes by M. Castells and P. Hall in Regional Studies, Vol. 29, p. 101.
1996 Glen Norcliffe: “Foreign Trade in Goods and Services”, in J. Britton (editor) Canada and the Global Economy. (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press) pp. 25–47.
1996 Xiao-Feng Liu and Glen Norcliffe: “Closed doors, open windows: geopolitics and post-1949 mainland Chinese Immigration to Canada”, Canadian Geographer, Vol. 40, pp. 306-319.
1996 Glen Norcliffe, Keith Bassett and Tony Hoare: “The emergence of post-modernism on the urban waterfront: geographical perspectives on changing relationships”, Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 4(2), pp. 123-134.
1996 Glen Norcliffe: "Mapping de-industrialization: Brian Kipping's landscapes of Toronto" (Canadian Urban Landscape Examples - 17), Canadian Geographer, Vol. 40, pp. 266-272.
1997 Glen Norcliffe: “Colonel Albert Pope: his contribution to bicycle manufacture and the development of mass production”, in R. van der Plas (editor) Cycle History: Proceedings of the Seventh International Cycle History Conference (San Francisco: Bicycle Books) pp. 74-86.
1997 Glen Norcliffe: "Popeism and Fordism: examining the roots of mass production", Regional Studies, Vol. 31(3), pp. 267-280.
1997 Suzanne Mackenzie and Glen Norcliffe: “Restructuring in the Canadian newsprint industry”, Canadian Geographer, Vol. 41, pp. 2-6.
1997 Glen Norcliffe and Judy Bates: "Implementing lean production in an old industrial space: restructuring at Corner Brook, Newfoundland 1984-1994", Canadian Geographer, Vol. 41, pp. 41-60.
1998 Derrek Eberts and Glen Norcliffe: “New forms of artisanal production in Toronto’s computer animation industry”, Geographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 86(2), pp. 120-133.
1998 Glen Norcliffe: “The flâneur on wheels”, in R. Van der Plas (editor) Cycle History: Proceedings of the Eighth International Cycle History Conference (San Francisco: Bicycle Books) pp. 93-100.
1999 Glen Norcliffe and Rob van der Plas, editors, Cycle History 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Cycle History Conference. (San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications).
1999 Glen Norcliffe: “Embedded Innovation: Canadian bicycle related patents 1868-1900", in G. Norcliffe and R. Van der Plas (editors), Cycle History: Proceedings of the Ninth International Cycle History Conference (San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications) pp. 9-20.
1999 Glen Norcliffe and Derrek Eberts: “The new artisan and metropolitan space”, in J-M Fontan, J-L Klein and D-G Tremblay Entre la Métropolitanisation et le Village Global (Sainte Foy: Presses de l’Université du Québec) pp. 215-232.
1999 Glen Norcliffe: “John Cabot’s legacy in Newfoundland: resource depletion and the resource cycle”, Geography, Vol. 84, pp. 97-109.
2000 Trevor J. Barnes, John N.H. Britton, William J. Coffey, David W. Edgington, Meric S. Gertler and Glen B. Norcliffe: “Canadian economic geography at the Millennium”, Canadian Geographer, Vol. 44(1), 4-24.
2000 Valerie Preston, Damaris Rose, Glen Norcliffe and John Holmes: “Shift work, childcare and domestic work: divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities”, Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 7(1), 5-29. Reprinted in Kimmel, M.S., Aranson, A. and Kaler, A. editors, The Gendered Society Reader (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
2001 Glen Norcliffe: The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada 1869-1900 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 288pp.
2001 Glen Norcliffe: “Canada in a Global Economy” (invited lead paper for 50th Anniversary Issue) Canadian Geographer, Vol. 45(1), 14-30.
2003 Glen Norcliffe and Olivero Rendace: “New geographies of comic book production in North America: the new artisan, distancing, and the periodic social economy”, Economic Geography, Vol. 79(3), 241-263.
2003 Glen Norcliffe: entries entitled “Cycling”, and “Canada Cycle and Motor Company” to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History. (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
2005 Derrek Eberts and Glen Norcliffe: “Employment and work in Toronto’s new economy” Urban Planning Overseas, Vol. 20 (2), pp.30-40.
2005 Glen Norcliffe: Global Game, Local Arena: Restructuring in Corner Brook, Newfoundland (St. John’s: ISER Books) 247pp.
2005 Glen Norcliffe: “The Coventry bicycle industry and the geographical construction of technology”, in R. Van der Plas (editor), Cycle History 15: (San Francisco: Cycle Publishing) 41-58.
2006 Glen Norcliffe: "Popeism and Fordism: examining the roots of mass production", in Huw Benyon and Theo Nichols (editors), The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) 65-78.
2006 Philip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe: “Flâneurie on bicycles: acquiescence to women in public in the 1890s,” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50(1), 17-37.
2006 Glen Norcliffe: “Associations, modernity and the insider-citizens of a Victorian highwheel bicycle club”. Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 19(2), 121-150.
2007 Glen Norcliffe, editor, Cycle History 17: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Cycle History Conference, Toronto, July 2006. (San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications 160pp.).
2007 Glen Norcliffe: “On the technical and social significance of the tricycle”, in Glen Norcliffe (editor) Cycle History17 (San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications) 59-68.
2007 Philip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe: “Gender and social geography of cycling in the late 19C”, in D. Horton, P. Rosen and P Cox (eds) Cycling and Society (Abingdon: Ashgate) 153-177.
2009 Glen Norcliffe: “The Coventry tricycle: technology, gender and buzz”, Cycle History19: (St.Etienne: Musee d’Arts et d’Industries) pp. 136-143.
2009 Glen Norcliffe: “Technological change”, in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. eds International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Volume 1. (London: Elsevier) 165-170.
2009 Glen Norcliffe: “G-COT: The geographical construction of technology”. Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 34(4), 449-475.
2010 Gao Boyang, Liu Weidong, Glen Norcliffe, Du Chao. “Land policy and the geographies of manufacturing industries: a case study of Beijing”. Progress in Geography. 29(7), 878-886. (In Chinese)
2011 Glen Norcliffe: “Neoliberal hypermobility and the tricycle”. Osaka Urban Research Plaza Document 11, 70-76.
2011 Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu, Glen Norcliffe, and Chao Du, “Trade barriers …the bicycle trade between China and Canada.” Acta Geographica Sinica, 66(4): 477-486.
2011 Glen Norcliffe: “Neoliberal mobility and its discontents in China”. City, Culture and Society, Vol. 2(4), 235-242.
2012 Glen Norcliffe: “Before geography? Early tricycles in the age of mecanicians.” Cycle History 22: (Cheltenham: Quorum), 86-99.
2012 Donald Freeman and Glen Norcliffe: “The 1970s: Growing pains in a changing world.” Geography at York University: Reflections on the First Fifty Years edited by William Found and John Radford (Toronto, Ontario: Department of Geography, York University) 73-90.
2012 Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu and Glen Norcliffe: “Hypermobility and the governance of global production networks: the case of the Canadian cycle industry and its links with China and Taiwan”. The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 56(4), 439-458.
2013 Maxime Lessard-Lachance and Glen Norcliffe: “’To Storm the Citadel’: Geographies of protest at the Summit of the Americas in Québec City, April 2001”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 103(1), 180-194.
2013 Michael Andreae, Jinn-yuh Hsu and Glen Norcliffe: “Performing the trade show: the case of the Taipei International Cycle Show”. Geoforum, Vol. 49(1), 193-201.
2013 Glen Norcliffe and Ron Miller: “Defining the nation: the rise of the Canadian Wheelmen.” Cycle History 23: (Cheltenham, Quorum), pp.110-121.
2013 [eBook] Glen Norcliffe: Schliessende Statistik für Geographen: Eine Einführung (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) [First published in 1981, and re-issued as an eBook in 2013 as one of “40 renowned imprints” in the Springer Book Archives accumulated between 1842 and 2005].
2015 Glen Norcliffe: Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, reissued in 2016 by Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing) 285pp.
2016 Glen Norcliffe: “Geographical imaginaries in Richard Lesclide’s « Le Tour du Monde en Vélocipède » Cycle History 26: 71-75.
2016 Glen Norcliffe [book review] Paul Smethurst (2015) The Bicycle: Towards a Global History(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Studies in Travel Writing Vol. 20(3), 313-316.
2016 Daniel Evans and Glen Norcliffe: “Local identities in a global game: the social production of football space in Liverpool.” Journal of Sport and Tourism, 20(3-4) 217-232. Reprinted in: T. Hinch, J. Higham and B. Moyle eds., Sport Tourism and Sustainable Destinations. (Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis) 2018.
2017 Glen Norcliffe: “National identity, club citizenship and the formation of the Canadian Wheelman’s Association 1883-87.” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 51(2) 461-484.
2017 Boyang Gao, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe and Zhigao Liu: “Capturing gains by relocating global production networks: the rise of Chongqing’s notebook computer industry, 2008–2014”.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 58(2) 231-257.
2018 Glen Norcliffe and Gao Boyang: “Hurry-slow: automobility in Beijing?” in Philip Gordon Mackintosh, Richard Dennis and Deryck W. Holdsworth eds. Architectures of Hurry: Mobilities, Cities and Modernity.London: Routledge, pp. 83-99.
2018 Glen Norcliffe: “Women and cycling: a revisionist interpretation.” In Cycle History 28: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Cycle History Conference edited by Gary Sanderson (San Francisco: Cycle Publishing) pp. 86-89.
2019 Gao Boyang, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe and Weidong Liu: “Governance capacity, state policy and the rise of the Chongqing notebook computer cluster.” Area Development and Policy, Vol.4(3) 321-345.
2019 Glen Norcliffe and Judy Bates: “Neoliberal Governance and Resource Peripheries: The Case of Ontario’s mid-North during the Common Sense Revolution.” Studies in Political Economy, 99(3), 280-295.
2019 Glen Norcliffe: “Mature extractive peripheries and the rise of prodigal cities.” Human Geography Vol. 12(3) 52-56.
2019 Glen Norcliffe: “Technological Change”: International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography (2nd edition), edited Audrey Kobayashi. (Elsevier).
2020 Stefan Decosse and Glen Norcliffe: “New geographies of elite hockey player production in the neoliberal age: the case of British Columbia.” The Canadian Geographer Vol. 63(4) (on-line).
2022 Glen Norcliffe (lead editor), Una Brogan, Peter Cox, Boyang Gao, Tony Hadland, Sheila Hanlon, Tim Jones, Nicholas Oddy, and Luis Vivanco: The Routledge Companion to Cycling (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing).
2022 Glen Norcliffe: “Introduction”, in The Routledge Companion to Cycling, edited by Glen Norcliffe, Una Brogan, Peter Cox, Boyang Gao, Tony Hadland, Sheila Hanlon, Tim Jones, Nicholas Oddy, and Luis Vivanco (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing).
2022 Ron Buliung, Annika Kruse, Glen Norcliffe and John Radford: "Cycling technologies and disability." Ch. 13 in The Routledge Companion to Cycling edited by Glen Norcliffe Una Brogan, Peter Cox, Boyang Gao, Tony Hadland, Sheila Hanlon, Tim Jones, Nicholas Oddy, and Luis Vivanco (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing).
2022 Glen Norcliffe and Boyang Gao: “The global bicycle industry”, chapter 14 in The Routledge Companion to Cycling, edited by Glen Norcliffe, Una Brogan, Peter Cox, Boyang Gao, Tony Hadland, Sheila Hanlon, Tim Jones, Nicholas Oddy, and Luis Vivanco (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing).
2022 Michael Andreae and Glen Norcliffe: “Bicycle trade shows as transactional spaces.” Chapter 16 in The Routledge Companion to Cycling, edited by Glen Norcliffe, Una Brogan, Peter Cox, Boyang Gao, Tony Hadland, Sheila Hanlon, Tim Jones, Nicholas Oddy, and Luis Vivanco (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Publishing).
2022 Glen Norcliffe, Ron Buliung, Annika Kruse and John Radford:“Disability and cycling technology: A socio-historical analysis.” Disability Studies Quarterly Vol. 42(1).
2023 Annika Kruse and Glen Norcliffe: “A history of therapeutic cycles for persons with impairment.” Cycle History 31: Proceedings of the Thirty First International Cycle History Conference, Gary Sanderson et al. eds. pp.30-34.
2023 Glen Norcliffe and Stefan Decosse: “Global player production networks: gaining value in the National Hockey League.” Geoforum, Vol.136(1), 101-111.
2023 Philip S Sarrazin and Glen Norcliffe: “Coupling in sport: geopolitics and hockey player production links between Canada and China.” Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, Vol.9(1) 1-21.
Conference Papers Given
Glen Norcliffe: “Problems with Trend Surface Analysis,” presented at a conference of the Study Group in Quantitative Techniques, Institute of British Geographers, at Cambridge University, March 1969.
Glen Norcliffe: “Matrix Methods in Regional Forecasting,” presented at I.G.U. Workshop on Urban and Regional Forecasting, Montreal, August 1972, 34pp.
Glen Norcliffe: “Managing Parastatals in Kenya,” Discussion paper prepared for CAFRAD Seminar, Mombasa, Kenya, December 1976, 19pp.
Glen Norcliffe: “A Model of Mix, Scale, and Competitive Effects in Regional Productivity Variations,” presented at Annual Meeting, Institute of British Geographers, January 1977.
Glen Norcliffe: “A Trade Theory Approach to Structural Divergence between Quebec and Ontario, 1961–1969,” presented at Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Western Ontario, May 1978.
Glen Norcliffe: “Identifying Local Industrial Complexes,” presented at Annual Meeting, Canadian Regional Science Association at the University of Waterloo, May
Glen Norcliffe and N. Miles: “Small Scale Manufacturing in Central Province, Kenya,” presented at meeting of the Ontario Division, Canadian Association of Geographers at Ryerson Polytechnic, October 1978.
Glen Norcliffe: “The Role of the Great Lakes in the Canadian Transportation System,” presented at the Anticipatory Planning Workshop, Science Advisory Board, International Joint Commission 4–7 March 1979.
Glen Norcliffe: “The Changing Role of Port Industries,” presented at Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Victoria, May 1979.
Glen Norcliffe: “Process Affecting Port Industrial Development in Canada,” Social Science Research Council's Anglo-French Symposium on Seaport Industrialization at the University of Southampton, England, November 1979.
Glen Norcliffe: “Operating Characteristics of Rural Nonfarm Enterprises in Central Province, Kenya,” Anglo-Canadian Symposium on Industrial Activity and Area Development, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 August 1981.
Glen Norcliffe: “Industrial Location and Production Theory,” presented at Annual Meeting, Institute of British Geographers, University of Southampton, 6 January 1982.
Glen Norcliffe: “The case for and against industrial diversification,” presented at the Second Anglo-Canadian Symposium on Industrial Activity and Area Development, University of Calgary, August 1983.
Glen Norcliffe: “Inner City Industrial Development under an Oligopolistic Land Market: The Case of Hamilton, Ontario,” presented to the Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division Conference at McMaster University, 29 October.
Glen Norcliffe and M. Goldrick: “Plant closures and de-industrialisation in Metropolitan Toronto” presented at the Third Anglo-Canadian Symposium on Industrial Activity and Area Development, Swansea, Wales, August 1985.
Glen Norcliffe and Donna Featherstone: “International Influences on Regional Unemployment Patterns in Canada during the 1981–84 Recession,” presented to the joint meeting of the Australian and Canadian Study Groups in Industrial Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, August 1986.
Glen Norcliffe: “Employment change in regional labour markets in Canada in the 1981–1984 recession.” Annual Meeting, Canadian Regional Science Association, Windsor, Ontario, June 1988.
Glen Norcliffe: “Painting the periphery: Images of Canada's industrial hinterland.” Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Edmonton, Alberta, May 1990.
Glen Norcliffe: “From Fordism to Flexible Production in the Technopole of Gerland: Tony Garnier's Legacy,” Institute of British Geographers Annual Meeting, Swansea, January 1992.
Glen Norcliffe: “The economic transformation of Toronto: towards the post-industrial city.” Keynote lecture, Eighth Annual Symposium, British Association for Canadian Studies, Birkbeck College, London, February 1992.
Tony Hoare, Keith Bassett and Glen Norcliffe: “Economic Change on the Urban Waterfront: From Port Activity to Urban Consumption,” European Harbour Masters Association, 4th Congress, Bristol, May 1992.
Glen Norcliffe: “The regulation of restructuring: Corner Brook 1984,” Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, May 1993.
Glen Norcliffe: “The imagined port: work and play on the city waterfront”, Key speaker at Canadian Nautical Research Society Annual Conference, Toronto, May 1993.
Judy Bates and Glen Norcliffe: “Implementing lean production in an old industrial space: Corner Brook 1984–1994” Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Waterloo, June 1994.
Glen Norcliffe: “Localities and global economic processes: restructuring for lean production in the Canadian pulp and paper industry” in Harold Innis Centenary Conference entitled Regions, Institutions and Technology: Reorganizing economic geography in Canada and the Anglo-American World, University of Toronto, September 1994.
Glen Norcliffe: “Establishing lean production in an old pulp and paper mill: restructuring at Corner Brook, Newfoundland 1984–1994.” Conference on “Global Efficiency; Regional Integrity and Cultural Identity in Atlantic Canada”, St. Mary's University, Halifax, November 1994.
Glen Norcliffe: “After the mill whistle blows: family life and domestic work of three categories of workers in a newsprint town”, Annual meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, May 1995.
Glen Norcliffe: "Bicycle manufacture and the development of mass production: the contribution of Colonel Albert Pope." Seventh International Cycle History Conference, Buffalo, September 1996.
Glen Norcliffe: “John Cabot’s Legacy: 500 years of resource exploitation in Newfoundland”, Keynote lecture for Royal Geographical Society and Geographical Association in Bristol to mark the voyage of the Matthew, April 1997.
Glen Norcliffe: “The economic space that history makes: Cabot 500", Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, St. John’s, August 1997.
Glen Norcliffe: “The flâneur on wheels”, Eighth International Cycle History Conference, Glasgow, August 1997.
Glen Norcliffe: “Mass customization and the new artisan”, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Boston, March 1998.
Glen Norcliffe: “Newfoundland and Toronto: contrasts in forms of work and forms of knowledge”, Invited Paper at Conference on Regions of Work, University of Toronto, April 1998.
Glen Norcliffe: “Artisanal production and mass customization”, Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Ottawa, May 1998.
Glen Norcliffe: “Embedded innovation: the record of Canadian bicycle-related patents 1868-1900”, Ninth International Cycle History Conference, Ottawa, August 1998.
Glen Norcliffe: “Le nouvel artisan et l’éspace métropolitain”, at annual colloquium of L’Association d’Économie Politique, on Entre La Métropolitisation et le Village Global”, Montreal, October 1998.
Glen Norcliffe: “The ride to modernity”, at Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Lethbridge, May 1999.
Glen Norcliffe and Oliver Rendace: “Cultural production in a periodic social economy: the case of the comic book industry”, at Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 2000.
Maxime Lachance and Glen Norcliffe: “Geographies of globalization and protest: The Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, April 2001" at Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, May 2001.
Judy Bates and Glen Norcliffe: “Community impacts of restructuring in Corner Brook and the surrounding rural region”, Canadian Rural Studies Association conference or recent rural change, University of Guelph, March 2002.
Glen Norcliffe: “Reflexive modernity, work insecurity, institutions and the new artisan”, Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Victoria, May 2003
Glen Norcliffe: “Acts of exclusion: the highwheel cavalry of the Montreal Bicycle Club, 1878-1890.” Conference on Acts of Citizenship, York University, Toronto, March 2004.
Glen Norcliffe: “G-COT: the geographical construction of technology.” Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Moncton, New Brunswick, May 2004.
Glen Norcliffe: “The rise of the Coventry bicycle industry 1869-1880, and the geographical construction of technology”, 15th International Cycle History Conference, Technisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, September 2004.
Glen Norcliffe: “Emptying the Green North: the state and the changing political economy of Canadian regional development”, Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.
Judy Bates and Glen Norcliffe: “Rohmer’s Dream and neoliberal reality: de-industrialization and urban crisis in Canada’s Mid-North”, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.
Glen Norcliffe: “On the technical and social significance of the tricycle”, 17th International Cycle History Conference, York University, Toronto, July 2006.
Glen Norcliffe: “The state, institutions and supply networks: the case of the Canadian bicycle industry”, Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, Beijing, China, June 2007.
Glen Norcliffe: “Global Supply networks, neoliberalism and the state”, Association of American Geographers, Boston, April, 2008.
Glen Norcliffe: “The Coventry tricycle: technology, gender and buzz”, Nineteenth International Cycle History Conference, St. Etienne, France, June 2008.
Michael Andreae and Glen Norcliffe: “Performing the trade show: the case of the Taipei International Cycle Show”, Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division, Brock University, October 2008.
Glen Norcliffe: “Neoliberal mobility and its discontents”, Conference on Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, February 2010.
Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu and Glen Norcliffe: “Hypermobility and the global supply networks of the Canadian bicycle industry”, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, September 2010.
Glen Norcliffe: “Before geography? Early tricycles in the age of mecanicians.” Twenty Second International Cycle History Conference, Paris, France, May 2011.
Glen Norcliffe: “Performing the trade show: the case of the Taipei International Cycle Show”. Third Global Conference on Economic Geography, Seoul, South Korea, June 2011.
Glen Norcliffe: “Global Sloanism”, Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2012.
Glen Norcliffe and Ron Miller: “Defining the nation: the rise of the Canadian Wheelmen.” 23rd International Cycle History Conference, Roeselare, Belgium, May 2012.
Glen Norcliffe, Derrek Eberts and Boyang Gao: “The governance of neo-artisanal production in Germany and Canada”. Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 2013.
Glen Norcliffe: “For a geography of cycling.” 25th International Cycle History Conference, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2014.
Glen Norcliffe, Gao Boyang and Mick Dunford: “Capturing gains in relocated global supply chains: the case of Chongqing’s computer notebook industry.” Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 2015.
Glen Norcliffe: “Richard Lesclide’s geographical imaginaries.” 26th International Cycle History Conference, Entraigues sur la Sorgue, France, August 2015.
Glen Norcliffe and Gao Boyang: “Variegated governance of industry in the neoliberal age”, Annual Conference, American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, April 2016.
Gao Boyang and Glen Norcliffe: “State governance in the development of Chongqing’s notebook computer cluster”, Annual Conference, American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, April 2016.
Glen Norcliffe: “Women and cycling: a revisionist interpretation”. 28th International Cycle History Conference, Mannheim Technomuseum, Germany, May 2017.
Glen Norcliffe and Stefan Decosse: “Evolutionary changes in the global production networks for elite hockey players.” International Conference on Global Production, National University of Singapore, 6-8 December 2017.
Gao Boyang, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe and Liu Weidong: “Governance capacity and strategic coupling: state policy and the rise of the Chongqing laptop cluster.” International Conference on Global Production, National University of Singapore, 6-8 December, 2017.
Glen Norcliffe and Stefan Decosse: “Global production networks for elite sportspeople. The case of hockey.” International Geographical Union - Annual Conference. Quebec City, 7-10 August, 2018.
Glen Norcliffe and Stefan Decosse: "Global player production networks for the National Hockey League." American Association of Geographers - Annual Conference. Washington DC, 3-6 April, 2019.
Phil Sarrazin and Glen Norcliffe: “Coupling and decoupling in hockey player production networks: Canada and China.” Annual Conference, American Association of Geographers, virtual meeting, on-line, February 2022.
Phil Sarrazin and Glen Norcliffe: “Coupling in hockey player production networks: Canada and China”. Annual Conference, Canadian Association of Geographers, Toronto Metropolitan University, May 2022.
Annika Kruse and Glen Norcliffe: “A history of therapeutic cycles for disabled people.” Presented at the 31st International Cycle History Conference,
Indianapolis, Indiana, July 2022.
Glen Norcliffe and John Radford: “Mobility justice for persons with disability: body-environment interactions and velomobility.” Annual Conference, American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March. 2023.
Selected Recent Scholarly and Professional Activities
| 1994 and 1995 | Chair, Ontario Graduate Scholarships Panel for Human Geography |
| 1995 | Invited Lecturer, Western Canadian Universities’ Lecture Series in Geography |
| 1996 | Research Grant Adjudication Committee (Panel 9), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| 1997 | Public lecture in Bristol, England sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society to mark the 500th Anniversary of Cabot’s voyage from Bristol |
| 2000 | CBC Radio: Metro Morning: live interview on cycling. |
| 2001 | CBC Radio: Fresh Air: live interview on the bicycle. |
| 2002 | Curator of Exhibition: “The County Bicycle Shop”, Bruce County Museum, Southampton, Ontario, subsequently touring other County Museums in Ontario. |
| 2002 | CBC Television: On the Road Again: on the importance of cycling heritage. |
| 2003 | TVOntario: Studio 2: on preparing a museum exhibition. |
| 2005 | The History Channel: half hour program on the bicycle in Things that Move. |
| 2006 | (with Royal Ontario Museum) Curated exhibition “Victorian Cycling” at Pearson International Airport. |
| 2007 | Programme appraiser: B.A. programmes in Urban Studies, Health and Society, and Labour Studies, for the Academic Vice-President, York University. |
| 2008 | Programme Appraiser: PhD, M.Sc. and M.A. programmes in Geography, University of Ottawa (for the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies). |
| 2008- present | Editorial Board, The Canadian Geographer. |
| 2017- present | Assistant Editor, Journal of Emerging Sports Studies. |
| 2018 | Camões Radio, Toronto half hour discussion of the impact of the planned closure of the GM Oshawa plant (6.Dec.2018). |
Recent Research Grants
2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (small grant program) “The development of the IT sector and the related global supply chain in Chongqing, China”. $2,632.
2019-2021 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Insight Development Grant: “Global player production networks: Canada's role in developing Chinese hockey.” $43,426
2023-2026 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Insight Development Grant: “Velomobility for disability: the design, production, and distribution of cycles that assist the mobility of persons with a disability.” $65,209.
