Books & Reports

Cowen, Deborah (2008) Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Cowen, Deborah and Emily Gilbert, eds. (2008) War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.

Cowen, Deborah (2014) The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. University of Minnesota Press. 2016 International Political Sociology Book Award, International Studies Association.

Cowen, Deborah, Brett Story, Alexis Mitchell & Emily Paradis (2020) Reassembling the Infrastructures of Citizenship: Digital Life in the Global City. UBC Press.

ARTICLES

Cowen, D. (2025) “Deadly Lifeworlds meet Paillative Politics: Struggle in Circulation. Antipode, July (early view).

Cowen, D. (2024) “Crisis in Motion.” South Atlantic Quarterly. Special issue entitled Crisis/Theory: The Politics of the Present.

Cowen D. & Khalili, L. (2023) “Inscribing New Infrastructural Relations into the World.” Radical History Review.

Cowen, D. (2023). “Law as Infrastructure of Colonial Space: Sketches from Turtle Island.” Symposium on Infrastructuring International Law, American Journal of International Law, 117: 5-12.

Cowen, D. (2023). “Settler colonial infrastructures and infrastructure otherwise.” Symposium on Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism: Keywords for decolonizing geographies, ed. S. Pasternak. Political Geography. 101.

LaDuke, Winona & Deborah Cowen (2020) “Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 119(2): 243-269. 

Cowen, Deborah (2020) “Following the Infrastructures of Empire: Notes on Cities, Settler Colonialism, and Method.” Urban Geography. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2019.1677990

Cowen, Deborah (2020) “#ShutCanadaDown: Anti-colonial counterlogistics in the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty.” The Funambulist. 20, March-April. https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/our-battles

Cowen, Deborah & Niccolo Cuppini (2019) “Circulating violence and value: A dialogue on logistics with Deborah Cowen.” Social Text. https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article/37/4%20(141)/95/141541/Circulating-Violence-and-ValueA-Dialogue-on

Chua, C., Danyluk, M, Cowen, D. & L. Khalili (2018) “Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 36(4) 617–629.

Cowen, Deborah (2018) “The Jurisdiction of Infrastructure: Circulation and Canadian Settler Colonialism.” The Funambulist (17) 14-29. https://thefunambulist.net/articles/jurisdiction-infrastructure-circulation-canadian-settler-colonialism-deborah-cowen

Cowen, Deborah (2018) “Editors Interview with Deborah Cowen.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 117(2): 397-406. https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/117/2/397/134018/Editors-Interview-with-Deborah-Cowen

Cowen, Deborah (2017) “Investigating Infrastructures” and “The City and The City (and the city): Infrastructure in the Breach,” invited special forum for the Society & Space Open Site. 

Cowen, Deborah (2017) “Cartographies of Empire, and Beyond: The Logistics of Life and Death.” Reading Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics,” (book forum) Political Geography. 61: 263-271.

Cowen, Deborah and Nemoy Lewis (2016) Anti-Blackness and Urban Geopolitical Economy: Reflections on Ferguson and the Suburbanization of the ‘Internal Colony’. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/anti-blackness-and-urban-geopolitical-economy

Cowen, Deborah (2014) “Disrupting Distribution: Subversion, the Social Factory, and the ‘State’ of Supply Chains.” Viewpoint, Issue 4. October. https://www.viewpointmag.com/2014/10/29/disrupting-distribution-subversion-the-social-factory-and-the-state-of-supply-chains/

Cowen, Deborah. (2011) “Logistics Liabilities.” Anthropological Research on the Contemporary. http://anthropos-lab.net/studio/logistics’-liabilities.

Cowen, Deborah and Amy Siciliano (2011) “Surplus Masculinities and Security.” Antipode. 43(5) 1516–1541.

Parlette, Vanessa and Cowen, Deborah (2011) “Dead Malls: Suburban activism, local spaces, global logistics.” The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35(4) 794-811.

Smith, Neil and Cowen Deborah, (2011) ““Martial Law in the Streets of Toronto”: G20 Security and State Violence.” Journal of Human Geography. 3(3) 29-46. [Republished in Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest, David Wachsmuth (ed.). Between the Lines Press. ]

Cowen, Deborah (2010) “A Geography of Logistics: Market Authority and the Security of Supply Chains.” The Annals for the Association of American Geographers. 100(3): 1-21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045601003794908

Cowen, Deborah and Smith, Neil (2009) “After Geopolitics? From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics.” Antipode. 41(1): 22-48. Republished in Geopolitics: An Introductory Reader, Jason Dittmer & Jo Sharpe (eds.). Taylor & Francis.  

Cowen, Deborah (2007) “National Soldiers and the War on Cities.” Theory & Event 10(2). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/218082

Cowen, Deborah. (2007) “Struggling with ‘Security’: National Security and Labour in the Ports.” Just Labour, 10: 30-44.

Cowen, Deborah (2006) “Fighting for ‘Freedom’: The End of Conscription and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship in the United States.” Citizenship Studies 10(2): 167-183.

Cowen, Deborah & Bunce, Susannah (2006) “Competitive Cities and Secure Nations: Conflict and Convergence in Urban Waterfront Agendas after 9/11.” The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(2): 427–39.

Cowen, Deborah (2005) “Welfare Warriors: Towards a Genealogy of the Soldier Citizen in Canada.” Antipode, 37(4): 654-678.

Cowen, Deborah (2005) “Suburban Citizenship? The Rise of Targeting and the Eclipse of Social Rights in Toronto.” Social and Cultural Geography, 6(3): 335-357. 

Cowen, Deborah (2004) “From the American Lebensraum to the American Living Room: Class, Sexuality, and the Scaled Production of ‘Domestic’ Intimacy.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22: 755-771.

BOOKS CHAPTERS 

Mazer, K., Danyluk, M., Hunchuck, E. & D. Cowen (2019) “Mapping a many-headed Hydra: Transnational infrastructures of extraction and resistance.” In J. Dhillon and N. Estes (eds.) #NoDAPL and Mni Wiconi: Reflections on Standing Rock. Minneapolis: UMP.

Cowen, Deborah (2014) “Logistics.” In Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities.

Cowen, Deborah & Amy Siciliano (2014) “Fear, Insecurity, and the City,” Tara Vinodrai (ed.) Canadian Cities in Transition. OUP. (Revised and updated from Cowen, Siciliano & Smith 2011)

Cowen, D. (2013) “Voices of Opposition: Activist Planning.” Interview published in Jerilou Hamnett (ed.)  The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World. 

Cowen, D. and Brett Story (2013) “Everyday/ Family,” invited chapter in the Ashgate Companion to Critical Geopolitics: 341-358.

Cowen, D. and Amy Siciliano, (2011) “Schooled In/Security: Surplus Subjects, Racialized Masculinity, and Citizenship.” In Shelley Feldman, Charles Geiser and Gayatri Menon (eds). Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life.Athens: University of Georgia Press. 104-121

Cowen, Deborah, Amy Siciliano & Neil Smith, (2010)  “Fear, Insecurity, and the City,” in Pierre Filion and Trudi Bunting (eds.) Canadian Cities in Transition. OUP.

Cowen, Deborah. (2009) “Containing Insecurity: US Port Cities and the ‘War on Terror.’  In Graham, Steven (ed.) Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. New York and London: Routledge: 69-84.

Cowen, Deborah (2008) “The Soldier and Social Citizenship” in Isin, Engin (ed.) Recasting the Social in Citizenship. University of Toronto Press.

Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2008) “Fear and the Familial in the U.S. War on Terror” in Rachel Pain, Susan J. Smith, Stephen Graham, ed. Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life; Aldershot: Ashgate. 

Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2008) “Introduction: The Politics of War, Citizenship, Territory” in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge. 

Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert (2008) “Citizenship in the ‘Homeland’: Families at War?” in Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. New York: Routledge.

Smith, Neil & Cowen, Deborah (2007) “New York Inside Out” in Jerilou Hammett (ed.) The Suburbanization of New York. Princeton Architectural Press, pp. 33-40.

Cowen, Deborah; Lehrer, Ute & Winkler, Andrea (2005) “The secret lives of toilets: A public discourse on ‘private’ space in the city” in Alana Wilcox (ed.) uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, Toronto: Coach House Press: 194-204.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Cowen, Deborah & Niccolo Cuppini (2019) “Guardare il mondo attraverso la logistica. Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e processi di globalizzazione.” Ledizioni, Milano.

Cowen, Deborah, Kay Dickinson & Patrick Brodie (2019) “A Conversation on Media and Logistics with Deborah Cowen and Kay Dickinson.” SYNOPTIQUE, l(8): 104-110. https://synoptique.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/8.1-Brodie-Cowen-Dickinson.pdf

Cowen, Deborah (2017) “Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance.” Verso Books. http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3067-infrastructures-of-empire-and-resistance

Mazer, K., Danyluk, M., Hunchuck, E., Chua, C. & Cowen, D. (2017) Mapping a Many Headed Hydra: The Struggle Over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Infrastructure Otherwise. Report 001. 18,389 words.

Cowen, D. (2017) Everyday Antiracism on Campus. Society and Space Open Site. http://societyandspace.org/2017/10/07/everyday-anti-racism-on-campus/

Cowen, D. and Stuart Elden (2014) “Geopolitical Economy.” Introduction to theme issue on the Society and Space open site. http://societyandspace.com/2013/11/18/geo-political-economy-virtual-theme-issue/

Cowen, D. (2013) “Murder in Passing: An Interview with Filmmakers John Greyson and Chase Joynt.” http://societyandspace.com/2013/03/05/murder-in-passing-an-interview-with-filmmakers-john-greyson-and-chase-joynt/?preview=true&preview_id=2466&preview_nonce=ec6f41637f

Cowen, D. (2013) Invited review essay of Kinsman, G. and Patricia Gentile (2013) The Canadian War on Queers. Vancouver: UBC Press. Acme (12) 2.

Cowen, D. ed. (2012) Militarism? A Mini Forum. http://societyandspace.com/material/discussion-forum/militarism-a-mini-forum/ 

Cowen, D. ed. (2012) “Forum on the ‘Occupy’ Movement.” http://societyandspace.com/2011/11/18/forum-on-the-occupy-movement/?preview=true&preview_id=443&preview_nonce=d420a9b018

Cowen, Deborah and Vanessa Parlette (2011) Inner Suburbs at Stake: Social Infrastructure in East Scarborough. Report prepared for the Cities Centre. 33,700 words.Companion report for public circulation entitled “Toronto’s Inner Suburbs: Investing in Social Infrastructure in Scarborough.” Available at http://www.citiescentre.utoronto.ca/Assets/Cities+Centre+Digital+Assets/pdfs/publications/Cowen+Torontos+Inner+Suburbs+2011.pdf

Cowen, Deborah (2009) Solicited book review of Jasbir Puar’s (2007) Terrorist Assemblages: Homonormativity in Queer Times.  (Duke University Press) Antipode, (41)3: 583-587.

Cowen, Deborah (2009) “Recruiting Homonationals” Social and Cultural Geography. 

Cowen, Deborah (2009) Review of Home/Bodies: Geographies of Self, Place and Space. University of Toronto Quarterly. 78(1): 135-6.

Cowen, Deborah and Tom Dufrene (2008) “Why We Challenge Canada’s Port Security Policy” Transport International Magazine. International Transport Federation. (2): 29-30

Cowen, Deborah (2006) “Hipster Urbanism” Relay, 13: 22-23.

Cowen, Deborah (2004) “Activist Planning and the Neoliberal City: The case of Planning Action” Progressive Planning, summer, 5pp.

Cowen, Deborah (2004) “Activist Planning and the Neoliberal City: The case of Planning Action” Progressive Planning, summer, 5pp.

Cowen, Deborah (2000) “Accidental Village” Planners Network Journal, July/Aug., 142, p. 4.

Cowen, Deborah (2000) “Recreation Policy and Local State Intervention in Toronto’s Post-War Suburbs,” report prepared for the Community and Social Planning Council, August.