Katherine Rankin

Katherine Rankin is part of the affiliated faculty network at the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods. Her broad research interests include gender and development, comparative market regulation, financial restructuring, planning history and theory, South Asia (Nepal). She is currently conducting comparative research on the gender politics of development institutions in Nepal and Vietnam. She is currently undertaking research in the areas of commercial gentrification, neighborhood-based economic development, and post-conflict transition/Nepal. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal (2004, Pluto Press and University of Toronto Press), as well as journal articles in Economy and Society, International Planning Studies, Journal of Feminist Economics, Gender, Place and Culture, and Progress in Human Geography. She is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto.