Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Culture & History
- Economic Geography
- Social & Political Geography
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Economic geography, cultural geography, market practices, market work, market-shaping, institutional work, adjacent markets, artisan and craft markets, lifestyle entrepreneurship, coopetition, relational economic geography, critical realism
Supervisor
Harald Bathelt
Biography
I’m a 3rd year PhD student researching market practices, market-shaping, and institutional work in contemporary craft markets.
Specifically, I'm looking at how actors in Ontario's artisanal bakery, craft beer, and jewellery design-making industries navigate challenges and opportunities to grow these industries and adjacent markets.
I'm particularly interested in the non-economic motivations, collective market-building, cooperative behaviours, and prosocial practices we often see in these industries. This places my research in the larger general fields of economic (and) cultural geography, market-as-practices, institutional work, coopetition, and lifestyle entrepreneurship research.
While these types of localized adjacent contemporary craft markets can be important vectors of cultural production and sustainability, I recognize they're also sites of exclusivity, inequity, and precarious labour conditions, requiring balanced investigation.
Publications
Roy, K. (2024). Institutional work and institutional entrepreneurship in the Ontario craft beer industry. ZFW–Advances in Economic Geography, 68(2), 97-110.
Roy, K., & Bathelt, H. (2024). Making the Ontario craft beer market. Regional Studies, 2435517.