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The Banana Fish Project by Michael Bradley
Exhibit at Zig Zag Gallery: June 3rd, 2024 - August 15th, 2024 The Banana Fish Project is a character art series by artist Michael Bradley. Using his banana fish characters as the focus of his master’s project, he imagines brighter futures and alternative ways of living through painting, sculpture, prints, and picture books. The current […]
Rabia Munir
About Rabia Munir Rabia is currently working as Associate Development Manager at GWL Realty Advisors. She has experience with urban planning, quantitative and qualitative research, and building construction. Rabia draws on past projects and education to develop creative solutions to contemporary projects. Could you share how you decided on the stream that you’d be focusing […]
Land assembly, financialization and agriculture in Canada’s North
by Sarah Rotz Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on a hitherto neglected topic: The expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country’s north. Focusing on the intertwined processes of capitalist frontier-making, large-scale land assembly, and financialization, she engages with the questions of whether such processes reify settler colonial land […]
Exploring interactions between humans and large carnivores
This spring, Dr. Sunetro Ghosal, visiting faculty at St Xavier’s Autonomous College, Mumbai and Norwegian University of Life Sciences, as well as editor of the inter-disciplinary journal Ladakh Studies and the periodical Stawa visited EUC for a two-week residency. This included an interdisciplinary workshop on animal agency as well as interactions with faculty and students focusing […]
EUC Research Updates - April/May 2024
Welcome to the April/May 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Siobhan Speiran on potential for multispecies justice through care-full wildlife […]
Future Changemakers Summer Program 2025
The Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at York University is hosting it's Summer camp for the second year in a row. This experience is the place to be for young minds ready to make a difference! Are you a high school student starting Grade 10, 11 or 12 in September? Join us for a […]
Examining the labour market transitions to Personal Support Worker roles among Filipina women
by Nikki Mary Pagaling The lowest rung of the Canadian healthcare workforce is occupied by nurse aides, also known as personal support workers (PSWS). They perform a range of direct care tasks associated with daily living, and are employed in various settings, including institutional facilities like long-term care, or in the private homes of their […]