Recent Publications

Recent Books:

Glen Norcliffe, Peter Cox, Tony Hadland, Sheila Hanlon, Tim Jones, Luis Vivanco, Nicholas Oddy, and Una Brogan, editors 2022 The Routledge Companion to Cycling.
(London & New York: Routledge Publishing).

Glen Norcliffe (2016) Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture. (Abingdon: Routledge Publishing) ISBN 978-1-4724-3911-6).

Tom Pinfold and Glen Norcliffe, editors (2011) Planning African Development: The Kenyan Experience (first published 1981; re-issued in the Routledge Revivals series) 201 pp.

Glen Norcliffe (2005)  Global Game, Local Arena, (St. John's: ISER Books) 247pp.

Glen Norcliffe (2001) The Ride to Modernity. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)

Selected Recent Chapters and Articles:

Philip S Sarrazin and Glen Norcliffe (2023): “Coupling in sport: geopolitics and hockey player production links between Canada and China.”  Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, Vol.9(1) 1-23.

Annika Kruse and Glen Norcliffe (2023): “A history of therapeutic cycles for persons with impairment.”  Cycle History 31:  pp.30-34.

Glen Norcliffe (2022) “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).

Ron Buliung, Annika Kruse, Glen Norcliffe, John Radford. (2022) “Cycling technologies and disability”, chapter 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).

Glen Norcliffe and Boyang Gao (2022) “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).

Michael Andreae and Glen Norcliffe: (2022) “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).

Glen Norcliffe and Stefan Decosse (2022): “Global player production networks: gaining value in the National Hockey League.” Geoforum, Vol.136(1), 101-111.

Glen Norcliffe, Ron Buliung, Annika Kruse and John Radford (2022): “Disability and cycling technology: A socio-historical analysis.” Disability Studies Quarterly Vol. 42(1) https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/8276/7609.

Stefan Decosse and Glen Norcliffe (2020): “New geographies of elite hockey player production in the neoliberal age: the case of British Columbia.” The Canadian Geographer Vol. 64(1) 120-134.

Glen Norcliffe (2019): "Mature extractive peripheries and the rise of prodigal cities.” Human Geography Vol. 12(3) 52-56.

Glen Norcliffe and Judy Bates (2019): “Neoliberal Governance and Resource Peripheries: The Case of Ontario’s mid-North during the Common Sense Revolution.” Studies in Political Economy, Vol.99(3) 331-354.

Gao Boyang, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe and Weidong Liu (2018): “Governance capacity, state policy and the rise of the Chongqing notebook computer cluster.” Area Development and Policy, Vol. 4(3), 321-345.

Glen Norcliffe (2018): “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.

Glen Norcliffe (2018): “Technological Change”:  International Encyclopedia of Human Geography 2nd  edition), edited Audrey Kobayashi. (Elsevier).

Glen Norcliffe and Gao Boyang (2018):  “Hurry-slow: automobility in Beijing or a resurrection of the kingdom of bicycles?”  in Philip Gordon Mackintosh,  Richard Dennis and Deryck W. Holdsworth eds. Architectures of Hurry: Mobilities, Cities and Modernity.  London: Routledge, pp. 83-99.

Boyang Gao, Michael Dunford, Glen Norcliffe, and Zhigao Liu (2017): “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.

Glen Norcliffe (2017):  “National identity, club citizenship and the formation of the Canadian Wheelman’s Association 1883-87.” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 51(2) 461-484.

Glen Norcliffe (2016): “Geographical imaginaries in Richard Lesclide’s « Le Tour du Monde en Vélocipède » Cycle History 26:  71-75.

Glen Norcliffe (2016) [book review] Paul Smethurst (2015) The Bicycle: Towards a Global History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Studies in Travel Writing Vol. 20(3), 313-316.

Daniel Evans and Glen Norcliffe (2016): “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.(2018) Sport Tourism and Sustainable Destinations. (Abingdon, UK: Taylor and Francis), 2018.

Michael Andreae, Jinn-yuh Hsu and Glen Norcliffe (2013) “Performing the trade show: the case of the Taipei International Cycle Show”. Geoforum, Vol. 49(1), 193-201.

Glen Norcliffe and Ron Miller  (2013) Defining the nation: the rise of the Canadian Wheelmen.” Cycle History 23: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Cycle History Conference (Quorum, Cheltenham), pp.110-121.

Maxime Lachance and Glen Norcliffe (2013) “’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.

Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu, and Glen Norcliffe (2012) "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 56(4), 439-458.

Glen Norcliffe (2012): “Before geography?  Early tricycles in the age of mecanicians.” Cycle History 22: (Cheltenham: Quorum), 86-99.

Glen Norcliffe (2011):   Neoliberal mobility and its discontents: working tricycles in China’s cities. City, Culture and Society, Vol. 2(4), 235-242.

Boyang Gao, Weidong Liu, Glen Norcliffe, and Chao Du (2011) “Trade barriers and global production networks: a study of bicycle trade between China and Canada.”  Acta Geographica Sinica, 66(4): 477-486

Glen Norcliffe (2011): “Neoliberal hypermobility and the tricycle”.  Osaka Urban Research Plaza Document 11, 70-76.

Glen Norcliffe (2009)  “G-COT: The geographical construction of technology”.  Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol.34(4), 449-475.

Glen Norcliffe (2009):  “The Coventry tricycle: technology, gender and buzz”, Cycle History19: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Cycle History Conference(St.Etienne: Musee d’Arts et d’Industries) 137-144.

Philip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe (2007)   “Men, women and the bicycle: gender and social geography of cycling in the late nineteenth century”, in D. Horton, P. Rosen and P Cox (eds)  Cycling and Society (Abingdon: Ashgate Publishing) pp.153-177.

Glen Norcliffe (2006)   “Associations, modernity and the insider-citizens of a Victorian highwheel bicycle club”.  Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 19, 121-150.

Philip Mackintosh and Glen Norcliffe (2006) “Flâneurie on bicycles: acquiescence to women in public in the 1890s,” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50, pp.17-37

Glen Norcliffe (2006)  "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 ) pp.65-78.