Episode 2: Lisa Freeman & Nick Blomley, 'Enacting property'

In this episode, Lisa Freeman, an urban geographer with a doctorate from the University of Toronto who is a researcher at a healthcare union and Nick Blomley, a professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Enacting property: Making space for the public in the municipal library.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 2:35 Creating the conceptual framework: 8:31 Intended audience(s): 12:27 Drafting the manuscript: 14:03 Life intervening & keeping going, slowly: 17:59 Choosing a journal & handling a rejection: 21:18 Addressing reviewers’ & editor’s comments: 24:52 Wise advice for fellow authors: 36:35 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 4013 Podcast credits & further information: 43:41 The article was published in 2019, in Volume 37 Issue 2 of Politics & Space. It’s free to access, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654418784024