My research focuses on the intersections between political economy and culture. My publications span the areas of cultural policy, visual culture, cultural economy and psychoanalytical theory. My book, Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference focuses on the gendered nature of discourses in aesthetics and political economy, while in the past I have explored topics such as the creative city, the cosmopolitan nature of Canadian cultural policy and design discourses.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of cultural economy, art, architecture, the museum, design discourses, cultural policy and the creative city.

Books

• Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference. (Routledge, 2017), 217pp.
• This is Not an Art Book (TINA). (Also Collective/Design Tennis, 2016), 208pp.
• The Paradox of Continental Production.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Journal Articles

• Jenkins, B., "Smart City Toronto: Extraction, Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism." Canadian Journal of Communication, 47(2), 247-270.
• Jenkins, B., "A Guaranteed Basic Income and the Aesthetics of Existence." Journal of Cultural Economy. 12:1, 21-35, 2019.
• Gardner, P. and Jenkins, B. "Bodily Intra-actions with Biometric Devices," Body and Society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2016, pp. 3-30.
• “Erotic Economics,” Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol 6 #2, 2013, pp. 168-183.
• “Cultural spending in Ontario, Canada: trends in public and private funding,” International Journal of Cultural Policy Vol. 15, #3, September 2009, pp. 329-342.
• Laura Dent, Daniel Asmar, Barbara Jenkins, John Zelek, “Finding Order in Sense of Place with Wearable Computing”, Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Vol. 2 Issue 2, 2008 http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.89
• Patricia Goff and Barbara Jenkins, “The New World of Culture: Re-examining Canada’s Cultural Policy,” Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Vol. 36 #3, Fall 2006, pp. 181-197.
• “The Dialectics of Design,” Space and Culture, Volume 9 #2, 2006, pp. 195-209.
• “Toronto’s Cultural Renaissance,” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 30, 2005, pp. 169-186.

Book Chapters

• “National Cultural Policy and the International Liberal Order,” in Negotiations in a Vacant Lot, Lynda Jessop, Erin Morton and Kirsty Robertson eds. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 114-129.

• SSHRC Research-Creation Grant 848-2008-109, “Biomapping: Mobile Experiments in Self- Computation and Spatial Aesthetics,” co-applicant with Paula Gardner of OCAD and John Zelek of University of Waterloo $158,000. (2009)
• SSHRC Workshop Grant for “Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada”. I was a participant in this grant application, Co-applicants are Kirsty Robertson (UWO), Erin Morton (Queens) and Lynda Jessop (Queens). (2009)
• SSHRC Image, Sound, Text and Technology grant, co-applicant with John Zelek (University of Waterloo) and Daniel Asmar (American University Beirut) entitled, “Finding Beauty and Order with Wearable Computing, $30,000. (2008)
• SSHRC Research Grant, $39,385. Principal investigator for study of the impact of the Mercosur regional trade agreements on foreign direct investment in the southern cone of South America. (1993 to 1996)