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Ruth Fincher

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Books

Fincher, R, Immigration, Urban Infrastructure and the Environment AGPS, Canberra 1991
Webber, M, Campbell, M & Fincher, R (eds), Migrants in Manufacturing Office of Multicultural Studies, Canberra 1992
Grimshaw, R, Fincher, R & Campbell, M (eds), Studies in Gender Committee for Gender Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1992
Fincher, R, Foster, L & Wilmot, R, Gender Equity and Australian Immigration Policy AGPS, Canberra 1994
Fincher, R & Jacobs, J (eds),Cities of Difference Guilford Press, New York 1998
Fincher, R & Nieuwenhuysen, J (eds), Australian Poverty Then and Now Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1998
Fincher, R & Saunders, P(eds), Creating Unequal Futures? Rethinking Inequality, Poverty and Disadvantage Allen& Unwin, Sydney 2001

Chapters In Books

Fincher, R, Urban redevelopment in Boston: rhetoric and reality, in K Cox, K & R Johnston (eds), Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene, Longman,
London 1982
Webber, M & Fincher, R, Urban policy in Hamilton in the 1980s, in M Dear, J Drake & L Reeds (eds), Steel City, University of Toronto Press, Toronto
1987
Fincher, R, Political economy of the local state, in R Peet & N Thrift, George (eds), The New Models in Geography (vol 1), Allen and Unwin, London
1989
Fincher, R, Class and gender relations in the local labour market and the local state, in J Wolch & M Dear (eds), The Power of Geography: How
Territory Shapes Social Life, Unwin Hyman, Boston 1989
Fincher, R, Urban geography in the 1990s, in A Rogers, H Viles & A Goudie (eds), A Student's Companion to Geography, Basil Blackwell, Oxford
1992
Fincher, R, Gender relations in the social and spatial forming of suburbs, in P Grimshaw, R, Fincher & M Campbell (eds), Studies in Gender,
Committee for Gender Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1992
Fincher, R, Environmental claims about the impacts of immigration, in H Adelman, A Borowski, M Burstein & L Foster (eds), Immigration and
Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared (vol 2), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1992
Fincher, R, Foster, L, Preston, V & Giles, W, Gender and migration policy, in H Adelman, A Borowski, M Burstein and L Foster (eds), Immigration
and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared (vol 1), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1992
Fincher, R, Campbell, I & Webber, M, Multiculturalism, settlement and migrants' employment strategies, in G Clark & D Forbes (eds),
Multiculturalism, Difference, Postmodernism, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1993
Fincher, R, Women, the state and the life course in urban Australia, in C Katz & J Monk (eds), Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life
Course, Routledge, London, 1993
Fincher, R, Women, immigration and the state: issues of difference and social justice, in A Edwards & S Magarey (eds), Women in a Restructuring
Australia: Work and Welfare, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1995
Fincher, R, The state and child care: an international review from a geographical perspective, in K England (ed), Who Will Mind the Baby? Geographies
of Child Care and Working Mothers, Routledge, London 1996
Fincher, R & Webber, M, The impact of globalisation at local, national and international levels, in J Wiseman (ed), Alternatives to Globalisation: An
Asia-Pacific Perspective, Community Aid Abroad, Melbourne 1997
Davison, G & Fincher, R, Urban studies in Australia: a road map and the way ahead, in Challenges for the Social Sciences and Australia, Vol 2, report
published by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra 1998 [ also published in Urban Policy and Research 16(3) 183-197]
Fincher, R, In the right place at the right time? Life stages and urban spaces, in R Fincher & J Jacobs (eds), Cities of Difference Guilford Press,
New York 1998
Fincher, R & Wulff, M, The locations of poverty and disadvantage, in R Fincher, & J Nieuwenhuysen (eds), Australian Poverty Then and Now,
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1998
Fincher, R & Wulff, M, Moving in and out of disadvantage: population mobility and Australian places, in R Fincher, P Saunders, (eds), Creating Unequal
Futures? Rethinking Inequality, Poverty and Disadvantage, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2001
Fincher, R & Saunders, P, The complex contexts of Australian inequality, in R Fincher & P Saunders (eds), Creating Unequal Futures? Rethinking
Inequality, Poverty and Disadvantage, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2001
Fincher, R, Jacobs, J & Anderson, K , Rescripting cities with difference, in J Eade & C Mele (eds),Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future
Perspectives, Blackwell, Oxford 2002
Fincher, R & Costello, L, Housing ethnicity: multicultural negotiation and housing the transnational student, in B Yeoh, M Charney & C K Tong
(eds), Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Boston 2003
Fincher, R, From dualisms to multiplicities: gendered political practices in the state, the market and civil society, in L Staeheli, E Kofman & L Peake
(eds), Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography, Routledge, New York (forthcoming)

Journal Articles

Dear, M, Fincher, R, Currie, L, - Measuring the external effects of public programs, Environment and Planning A 9, 137-147, 1977
Fincher, R, - Is the neighbourhood a viable unit for social planning or political activity? Monadnock: Bulletin of the Clark University Geography Society 52, 1-15, 1978
Fincher, R, - Some thoughts on de-institutionalization and difference, Antipode 10, 46-50, 1978
Fincher, R, - Local implementation strategies in the urban built environment, Environment and Planning A 13, 1233-1252, 1981
Fincher, R, - Analysis of the local level capitalist state, Antipode 13, 25-31, 1981
Fincher, R, - The inconsistency of eclecticism, Environment and Planning A 15, 607-622, 1983
Fincher, R, Ruddick, S, - Transformation possibilities within the capitalist state: Co-operative housing and decentralized health care in Quebec, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 7, 44-71, 1983
Chouinard, V, Fincher, R, - A critique of 'Structural Marxism and Human Geography', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 73, 137-146, 1983
Fincher, R, - The state apparatus and the commodification of Quebec's housing co-operatives, Political Geography Quarterly 3, 127-143, 1984
Chouinard, V, Webber, M, Fincher, R, - Empirical research in scientific human geography, Progress in Human Geography 8, 347-380, 1984
Fincher, R, - Identifying class struggle outside commodity production, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2, 309-327, 1984
Fincher, R, - The call for new social theories, Environment and Planning A 16, 1267-1268, 1984
Fincher, R, - The implications of a major local planning hearing, Environment and Planning A 17, 1153-1154, 1985
Fincher R, - Editorial: Improving geography's public and educational profile, The Operational Geographer 6, 1, 1985
Fincher, R, Review essay on The City and the Grassroots, by Manuel Castells, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76(3), 435-438, 1986
Fincher, R, - Apparent peculiarities of Australian academia, Environment and Planning A 19, 3-5, 1987
Prescott, V, Fincher, R, An assessment of 'The poverty of international comparisons: so
me methodological lessons from world-systems analysis?, Studies in Comparative International Development 22, 55-69, 1987
Fincher, R, - Social theory and the future of urban geography, The Professional Geographer 39, 9-12, 1987
Fincher, R, Defining and explaining urban social movements, Urban Geography 8, 152-160, 1987
Chouinard, V, Fincher, R, - State formation in capitalist society, Antipode 19, 329-353, 1987
Fincher, R, - Space, class and political processes: the social relations of the local state, Progress in Human Geography 11, 496-515, 1987
Fincher, R, - State government bullies in the inner city, Environment and Planning A 20, 422-4, 1988
Fincher, R, - The social relations of localities: spatial divisions of labour and the local state, Environment and Planning A 21, 674-677, 1989
Fincher, R, - Multicultural matters, Environment and Planning A 21(11) 1423-1426, 1989
Fincher, R, McQuillen, J, - Women in urban social movements, Urban Geography 10, 604-613, 1989
Webber, M, Campbell, I, Fincher, R, Ethnicity, gender and industrial restructuring in Australia 1971 - 1986, Journal of Intercultural Studies 11, 1-48,1990
Fincher, R, - Women in the city, Australian Geographical Studies 28(1) 29-37, 1990
Fincher, R, - Urban and environmental issues on Australia's immigration agenda, Environment and Planning A 23(6), 780-782, 1991
Fincher, R, - Caring for workers' dependents: class, gender and local state practice in Melbourne, Political Geography Quarterly 10(4) 356-381, 1991
Campbell, I, Fincher, R, & Webber, M, Occupational mobility in segmented labour markets: the experience of immigrant workers in Melbourne, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 27(2) 172-194, 1991
Fincher, R, Locational disadvantage: an appropriate response to urban inequities? Australian Geographer 22(2) 132-135, 1991
Fincher, R, Gender relations and the geography of migration, Environment and Planning A, 25(12) 1703-1705, 1993
Fincher, R, Gender, ethnicity and age in immigration for an Australian nation, Environment and Planning A, 29, 217-236, 1997
Fincher, R, Population questions for Australian cities: reframing our narratives, Australian Geographer 29, 31-47, 1998
Fincher, R, New geographies of disadvantage: implications for service delivery, Australian Journal of Public Administration 58(3) 85-90, 1999
Fincher, R, Women in the city, Trust Women 13(2), 2-7, 2001
Fincher, R, Immigration research in the politics of an anxious nation, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19(1), 25-42 , 2001
Fincher, R & Panelli, R, Making space: women's urban and rural activism and the Australian state, Gender, Place and Culture 8(2) 129-148, 2001
Fincher, R , Planning for cities of diversity, difference and encounter, Australian Planner 40(1), 55-58, 2003
Fincher, R , Gender and life course in the narratives of Melbourne's high-rise housing developers, Australian Geographical Studies ( forthcoming)

Working Papers

Fincher, R, The demanding state: volunteer work and social polarisation, in, K, Gibson et al, Gender Issues and Social PolarisationAustralian, Housing and Urban Research Institute Working Paper 6, Melbourne 1996


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