2025, with Naomi Klein, Kyo Maclear & Madeleine Thien “Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help Palestinians.” The Globe & Mail. July 9.
2025, “What Counts as Antisemitism? The Debate That Is Dividing Communities.” The Walrus, April 11.
2024, “UofT faculty members declare support for pro-Palestinian protesters after administration’s discipline threat” The Globe & Mail. May 28.
2024, “Encampment negotiations continue as U of T threatens eviction Monday morning.” Toronto Star. May 27.
2024, with Mohammad Yassin “University of Toronto Protesters Vow to Continue Gaza Encampment as Admin Demands Police Clear It.” Democracy Now. 15 minute live appearance. May 30.
2024, “UofT seeks court injunction to clear encampment as protesters stay put.” CBC News. May 28.
2024, “Does the protest encampment at the University of Toronto make Jews unsafe? Depends which side of the fence you’re on while asking the question.” The Canadian Jewish News. May 16.
2024, “University of Toronto offers a deal to protesters—and a Monday morning deadline to end the encampment—but the school refuses to participate in academic boycotts of Israel.” The Canadian Jewish News. May 24.
2024, “‘Our University Is Complicit.’” The Grind. May 4.
2024, “University of Toronto woke up to an encampment that’s joined the wave of anti-Israel protests in Canada.” The Canadian Jewish News. May 2.
2024, “Protesters set up encampment at U of T, demand the university divest from Israel.” The Globe and Mail. May 2.
2021, with Abigail Bakan, Alejandro Paz and Anna Zalik “Jewish scholars defend the right to academic freedom on Israel/Palestine.” The Conversation. April 11. https://theconversation.com/jewish-scholars-defend-the-right-to-academic-freedom-on-israel-palestine-157674
2020, with Dayna Scott “Mining push continues despite water crisis in Neskantaga First Nation and Ontario’s Ring of Fire.” The Conversation, 22 Nov. https://theconversation.com/mining-push-continues-despite-water-crisis-in-neskantaga-first-nation-and-ontarios-ring-of-fire-150522
2020, There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace. Director: Lulu Wei. Feature length documentary film on the housing crisis in Toronto. https://www.theresnoplacelikethisplace.com
2020, ‘My Parkdale is gone’: How Gentrification Reached the One Place That Seemed Immune.” Interview with the Guardian. January 14 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/14/my-parkdale-is-gone-how-gentrification-reached-the-one-place-that-seemed-immune
2018, The Agenda with Steve Paikin and Nam Kiwanuka, Municipal Reinvention. 22 min TV interview. August 27. https://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/municipal-reinvention
2018, with Shiri Pasternak “Trans Mountain pipeline another colonial project asserting jurisdiction over Indigenous lands.” The Star, April 24 https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/04/24/trans-mountain-pipeline-another-colonial-project-asserting-jurisdiction-over-indigenous-lands.html
2018, “The Seductive Power of a Suburban Utopia.” Extended interview with Mimi Kirk, March 16, CityLab. https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/03/the-seductive-power-of-a-suburban-utopia/555329/
2017, “Backlash to magazine story exposes ugly side of Toronto’s housing obsession: U of T experts.” U of T News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/backlash-magazine-story-exposes-ugly-side-toronto-s-housing-obsession-u-t-experts
2017, “The special power of disruption in an age of logistical warfare.” Interview with K. Woznicki, Open Democracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/krystian-woznicki-deborah-cowen/acts-of-disruption
2017, “Where in the city do people struggle to pay for their homes?” Interview with Toronto Star, reprinted in Metro News. October 25. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/25/where-in-the-city-do-people-struggle-most-to-pay-for-their-homes.html
2017, “Deborah Cowen” Interview with Full Stop, April 26. http://www.full-stop.net/2017/04/26/interviews/haley-markbreiter/deborah-cowen/
2016, “Public Space is Personal Space” Research 2 Reality, https://research2reality.com/science-society/public-space-is-personal-space/?hilite=cowen
2015, The Atlantic: CITYLAB, “The Long Shadow of Mumbai’s Mushrooming Highrises.” http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/06/the-long-shadow-of-mumbais-mushrooming-highrises/393911/
2015, The Star, “Bridging social divides in a highrise world.” http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/06/07/bridging-social-divides-in-a-highrise-world.html
2015, The Atlantic: CITYLAB, “The Value in Following a Single Building for Years.” http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/06/the-value-in-following-a-single-building-for-years/393986/
2015, RealScreen, “NFB readies launch of final ‘Highrise’ chapter.” http://realscreen.com/2015/05/28/nfb-readies-launch-of-final-highrise-chapter/
2015, U of T News, “How U of T researchers helped shape HIGHRISE, the NFB’s interactive documentary.” http://news.utoronto.ca/how-u-t-researchers-helped-shape-highrise-nfbs-interactive-documentary
2015, U of T News, “Urban geographer explores the changing face of suburbs: Expert Deborah Cowen on the racial and economic polarization of our cities.” http://news.utoronto.ca/urban-geographer-explores-changing-face-suburbs
2015, Interview with U of T Magazine, “Tower Trouble: In India, urban renewal schemes and corruption have created a violent economy around the demolition of apartment buildings.” http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/leading-edge/tower-trouble-scott-anderson/
2013, U of T Magazine, “Markets Without Borders? Deborah Cowen investigates what happens when governments sacrifice the rights of their citizens to protect the flow of goods across national lines.” http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/market-without-borders-deborah-cowen/
2012, CBC Radio, “Building Community, Life in a Rexdale Highrise.” https://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episode-update/2012/02/08/live-broadcast-from-rexdale-wednesday-the-15th/#igImgId_30945
2012, Open File, Interview with Jared Stuffco about homelessness in the inner suburbs, “As Poverty Gets Pushed to the Suburbs, so does Panhandling.”
2011, Toronto Star, Interview with Christopher Hume regarding release of research report. “Why Its Crucial to Invest in Scarborough.” June 16. G4. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/06/16/hume_why_its_crucial_to_invest_in_scarborough.html
2011, CBC Radio Metro Morning, “Investing in suburban social infrastructure” interview with Matt Galloway. June 16. http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/multimedia/investing-in-scarborough-social-infrastructure-cbc-toronto-metro-morning/
2010, Toronto Star, Interviewed about community project in East Scarborough, “A Toronto Bridge Becomes a Symbol of Hope.” September 10. https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/yourcitymycity/2010/09/10/a_toronto_bridge_becomes_a_symbol_of_hope.html
2010, CBC Radio, ‘Metro Morning,’ interview with Matt Galloway about public transit and the Toronto mayoral debate, September 2.
2010, CBC Radio, “The Current.” Panel discussion on Cities, Security, and the G20. June 23.
2010, CBC Radio, ‘Metro Morning,’ 8 minute interview about the impact of the Provincial budget cuts to public transit funding for inner suburban communities, March 29.
2009, with Neil Smith, Globe and Mail, “Continental Divide” November 13. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/continental-divide/article792770/
2009, Globe and Mail, Interviewed by senior writer Erin Anderssen for feature article on military recruitment “There’s no Midlife Like It,” Feb 21.
2008, Radio Canada International, “The Link” 10 minute segment on “Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada” with host Victor Nurenberg, October 11.
2008, The Bulletin, interview with Jenny Lass entitled, “Geography professor uncovers how military shapes Canadian culture.” September 23.
2008, CBC Radio, ‘Here and Now’, 8 minute interview with host Matt Galloway about the decline of Toronto’s inner suburbs and local responses, September 22.
2008, CBC Television, “The National”, segment about a the ‘Kingston-Galloway’ priority neighbourhood in Scarborough, Ontario, May 1.
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