Dr. Terry KadingAssociate Professor | Faculty of Arts
Email: tkading@tru.ca
Phone:
(250) 371-5523
Interests
Teaching specialties include Canadian Politics, Public Policy, Comparative Politics, and Local Government in Canada.
Research Interests
Recent research interests include social and economic challenges in small-medium sized cities, immigration, and federalism and governance issues.
Education
Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
Dissertation: The Military and the Maya in Guatemala: Ethnicity and Economic Development in the Making
of a Massacre
M.A. (University of Waterloo)
Thesis: The Role of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
B.A. (University of Lethbridge)
Publications
Edited Collections:
No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities (editor).
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2018.
Small cities, Big Issues: Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era (editor with Christopher Walmsley).
Athabasca University Press, 2018.
The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity, & Quality of Life in Western Canada. Eds. Anne
Gagnon, W.F. Garrett-Petts, Terry Kading, James Hoffman, Henry Hubert, Kelly-Anne Maddox, Virginia
Ratsoy. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2009
The Canadian Studies Issue of Textual Studies in Canada: Canada's Journal of Cultural Literacy. Eds.
Anne Gagnon, Henry Hubert, Terry Kading, Martin Whittles, Virginia Ratsoy. (17, Summer), 2004
Articles:
"Homelessness and Housing Insecurity: Government Inaction in the Creation of a Major Crisis" in Robert
Harding & Daphne Jeyapal (editors), Canadian Social Policy for Social Workers (Oxford University
Press), 2019
"Promoting Community Leadership and Learning on Social Challenges: Government of Canada Homelessness
Initiatives and the Small City of Kamloops, B.C." in No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path
from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Ed. Terry Kading). University of Calgary Press, 2018
"Leadership Initiatives and Community-Engaged Research - Explorations and Critical Insights on
Leadership and Learning in the Small City of Kamloops" with Kendra Besanger, Tina Block, Lisa Cooke,
Dawn Farough, Terry Kading, Ginny Ratsoy, Robin Reid in No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path
from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Ed. Terry Kading). University of Calgary Press, 2018
"Homelessness and the Small City Response" (with Christopher Walmsley)in Small Cities, Big Issues:
Community in a Neoliberal Era. (Eds. C. Walmsley and T. Kading). Athabasca University Press, 2018
"Social Planning and the Politics of Small City Governance" (with Christopher Walmsley) in Small Cities,
Big Issues: Community in a Neoliberal Era. (Eds. C. Walmsley and T. Kading). Athabasca University Press,
2018
"Can You Build an Open-Pit Mine in an Urban Centre? Big Copper versus a Small City and the Urban
Environment in a B.C. Interior Community" (with Elizabeth Bass) in Alternate Routes: A Journal of
Critical Social Research. Vol. 25, 2014
"The Politics of the Arts in the Small City: Contexts and Prospects" (with Dr. Christopher Walmsley) in
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? Community Engagement in Small Cities. Eds. W.F. Garrett-Petts, James
Hoffman & Ginny Ratsoy. New Star Books, 2014
"Drawn Into 9/11, But Where Have All the Superheroes Gone?", Philosophy and Comics (ed. J. McLaughlin).
University of Mississippi Press, 2005
"Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA): From Liberal Idealism to Realist Power
Politics" in From Philosophy to Politics (ed. D. Carmichael). Edmonton: University of Alberta Press,
2005
"Canada and the Hemisphere: The Summit of the Americas Process and the Free Trade Area of the Americas",
in Reinventing Canada: Politics of the 21st Century (eds. J. Brodie and L. Trimble). Toronto:
Prentice-Hall, 2003
"The Guatemalan Military and the Economics of La Violencia" Canadian Journal of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, 24 (47), 1999: 57-91
Research Reports (recent):
"2018 Kamloops Youth Homelessness Count Report" Kamloops A Way Home Committee to End Youth Homelessness.
With Katherine McParland - Youth Homelessness Manager, Caitlin Quist and the Kamloops A Way Home Youth
Count Committee, 2019
"Changes in the Social Planning Landscape of British Columbia Since 2009 - Results of a Research
Collaboration" City of Kamloops & TRU (2017-18), 2019
Courses Taught
POLI 1110 - The Government and Politics of Canada
POLI 1210 - Contemporary Ideologies
POLI 2140 - Resistance and Revolution
POLI 2150 - Comparative Politics
POLI 2350 - Canadian Public Policy and Public Admin
POLI 3010 - Canadian Political Parties
POLI 3030 - Federalism in Canada
POLI 3050 - Canadian Political Ideas
POLI 3100 - Local Government in Canada
POLI 3200 - American Government and Politics
POLI 3460 - Democratic Theory
POLI 3500 - The Politics of Mexico
POLI 3520 - Politics of Developing Nations
POLI 4010 - Canadian Provincial and Regional Politics
POLI 4020 - Politics of Canadian Constitutions
POLI 4050 - Topics in Canadian Politics: Canada and Globalization
POLI 4060 - Topics in Latin American Politics
