Martha Radice
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
Email: martha.radice@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6747
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
- Social justice and inequality
- Urban studies
- Space and place
- Ethnicity
- Cosmopolitanism
- Applied - action research
- Canada
- Quebec
Cross appointments
- Canadian Studies
- School of Planning
Education
- BA Hons, University of Sussex
- MA, Université Laval
- PhD, Insitut national de la recherche scientifique
Research interests
Martha Radice is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on the social, spatial and cultural dynamics of cities. Her ongoing areas of interest are urban anthropology, public space, public art and public culture, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, community and neighbourhoods, applied urban research, and ethnographic methods.
Dr. Radice's current research explores carnival practices in New Orleans, for which she has been awarded a New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive Fellowship (2017) and a SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2023). She also worked with Jill Grant, Ren Thomas, and Howard Ramos on the Halifax team of the Canada-wide Neighbourhood Change Research Project. Her past interdisciplinary research-creation project with Solomon Nagler and Kim Morgan at NSCAD University explored how art can shape the urban public and, conversely, how the urban public can shape artistic production, and resulted in the book Urban Encounters: Art and the Public, co-edited with Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier.
Dr. Radice is committed to opening public access to academic research, and serves on the Board of Érudit, a Canadian consortium to support open digital publishing and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. She is a past president of the Canadian Anthropology Society and was Co-Chair of the first joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Anthropological Association in 2019. She can provide copies of most of her publications by email.
Selected publications
- Radice, M. (2023). Embodying cultural infrastructure in Carnival. In The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, edited by Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore. Agenda Publishing.
- Radice, M. (2022). The Call of the Great Indoors. Anthropologica 64 (1):1-10.
- (2022) Pop-Up Ethnography: Methods for Studying Social Relations at the Register of Urban Public Space. Journal of Intercultural Studies 43 (2):267-282.
- Radice, M. (2021) Creativity, Sociability, Solidarity: New-Wave Carnival Krewes’ Responses to COVID-19 in New Orleans. Anthropologica 63 (1):1-27.
- Radice, M. (2018) Putting the public in public art: An ethnographic approach to two temporary art installations. City & Society 30(1): 45-67.
- Radice, M., & Boudreault-Fournier, A. (eds) (2017) Urban Encounters: Art and the Public. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press.