Benjamin Forest
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Associate Professor
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Research areas:
Social geography
Political geography
Urban geography
Current research:
I study the geographical nature of identity and identifications, and I am especially concerned with the political representation and construction of race, ethnicity, and nationality. My current research examines the political representation of ethnic minority groups, the use of monuments and memorials for (re)constructing post-Soviet national identities, and various issues of electoral geography, political parties, and governance.
Topics of interest
- Shaping Democracy: Boundary Commissions, Parties, and Citizens聽
- Municipal Policy Variation in the United States
- The Power of Symbolic Capital:聽
Degree(s):
- , UCLA (1997)
- Associate 惭别尘产别谤,听Department of Political Science, 九色视频
- 惭别尘产别谤,听, 九色视频
- Research Fellow,聽九色视频 Institute for the Study of Canada
Selected publications:
- Johnson, Juliet and Benjamin Forest (2025) 鈥淎spirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol鈥� Annals of the American Association of Geographers: DOI:
- Forest, Benjamin (2025) 鈥淣ationalism and Nation-Building鈥� in , edited by Virginie Mamadouh, Natalie Koch, Chih Yuan Woon, and John Agnew. Hoboken, NJ, USA/Bognor Regis, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
- Forest, Benjamin, Juliet Johnson and Zarlasht M. Razeq (2024) 鈥淭erritory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade鈥� Geopolitics
- Erl, Chris, Benjamin Forest, and Mike Medeiros (2022) 鈥� 鈥楻eckless, cavalier, dismissive, petty and vengeful鈥� 鈥�?: The impact of municipal constituency change on candidate diversity鈥� Political Geography 99 102788.
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