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Crafting connections: Artist Zeelie Brown on quilt-making and celebrating Black, Queer ecologies

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change welcomed Visiting Artist-in-Residence Zeelie Brown this May. Zeelie’s artistry stems from her upbringing in rural Alabama. She creates Black and queer refuges called ‘soulscapes’ – blending sound, performance, installation, wilderness and more to provide solace and challenge systemic oppressions. Hosted by Professor Andil Gosine, Zeelie collaborated with the […]

Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures: EUC Congress event with Candis Callison, Naomi Klein and Deborah McGregor

As part of the open programming at Congress 2023, the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) is hosting  a keynote panel titled "Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures" on May 31st from 3-5pm at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building. Co-sponsored by UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and the Environmental Studies Association of […]

Vertical peripheries: Planning and citizenship in Colombia’s commodified periurban housing towers

Project Investigators: Luisa Sotomayor and Lina Brand Correa Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 This interdisciplinary research project (Canada, Colombia, urban planning, anthropology, development studies, and ecological economics) will investigate the implementation and effects of Colombia's market-based housing policy as it restructures the country's metropolitan peripheries. Specifically, the project aims to understand how commodified social […]

High-rise living, public space and COVID-19 in the Greater Toronto Area

Project Investigator: Ute Lehrer Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 High-rise buildings have long been a significant form in urban development. But this form of living comes with its own challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic of the last two years has magnified some of the problems for life in close proximity. While a large body […]

The city after COVID-19: Comparing vulnerability and urban governance in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg

Project Investigators: Roger Keil (York), Xuefei Ren (MSU) and Philip Harrison (WITS) Funding: Urban Studies Foundation Term: 2022-2023 This is a pilot study of a larger comparative project on the complex effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban governance intended to initiate a systematic comparison of vulnerability and governance in post-pandemic city regions. At the […]

Nature's Wild

Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant Term: 2022-2023. The project shares the author's research collected in Nature’ Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2021). In Nature's Wild, Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise historical and contemporary understandings of queer desire. […]

Colin Robinson's unfinished work

Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2026 This five-year interdisciplinary project examines historical and contemporary articulations of and approaches to the security of sexual autonomy through consideration of the intellectual, literary and political legacy of Colin M. Robinson, the Black, Queer, Caribbean-American writer and activist who made formidable impacts during his prolific […]

Oral history, music-making and food justice

Project Investigator: Honor Ford-Smith Funding: Carswell Family Foundation Term: 2020-2023 The project aims to create music that teaches about food justice, health and nutrition through oral histories. It responds to concerns in the Jane/Finch community and offers a chance for knowledge exchange between generations, music-making and production, and community education in the service of food […]

Energy solidarity in Latin America: Generating inclusive knowledge and governance to address energy vulnerability and energy systems resilience - Colombia, Cuba and Mexico

Collaborator: Lina Brand-Correa. Principal Investigator: Harriet Thomson Funding: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. Term: 2020-2024 ESLatinA responds to the urgent need for comprehensive and inclusive understanding, evidence and governance capacity on energy vulnerability in Latin America, with an in-depth focus on Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. Energy vulnerability occurs when households cannot access vital […]

EUC Research Update - May 2023

Welcome to the May 2023 edition of the EUC Research Update  - bringing you highlights from research activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our past updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Ilan Kapoor on unconscious desire and its constitutive role in global political economy. Read […]