The arts, culture and the humanities offer creative ways to understand, question, and change, the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. EUC researchers are exploring how we think about the natural world through alternative, and especially Indigenous, forms of environmental knowledge; how scientific and cultural knowledge can work in unison; and how racialized, […]
EUC research is exploring the thinking, activism and policies that are needed to take action in the climate emergency and to plan sustainable and humane communities. We are working with Indigenous communities to define new approaches to, and knowledge of, climate change. We are also critically examining the policies and behaviours that are needed to […]
EUC researchers are producing critical analyses of contemporary global capitalism, feminist perspectives on geopolitics, and psychoanalytical interpretations of global development. We are also exploring the changing worlds of work, employment and labour organizing; the global rise of right-wing populism; and new structures of accumulation through technoscientific capitalism. A particular focus is the settlement of immigrants, […]
EUC researchers study how social power relations are entwined with environmental processes. This includes contexts such as food production, extractive industries, vulnerability to the climate crisis, and urbanization. Current funded projects take our researchers to contexts as diverse as Indigenous communities and urban peripheries in Canada, the forests of Costa Rica, river valleys in Chile, […]
EUC research examines urban processes and planning in Canada and diverse contexts around the world. There is a particular focus on critical urban theory, the experiences of marginalized communities, the role of activism in shaping urban life, and health and disease in urban settings. Specific projects examine health and well-being in urban environments, labor markets […]
EUC research examines environmental and ecological processes through field-based science, computer modelling, data analysis, and laboratory testing. EUC-based research projects in this area address: water, soils, sediments and climates in various Canadian landscapes; remote sensing and GIS applied to landscape change; changing forest landscapes; polar bear ecology in the Arctic; water quality and lake ecosystems; […]
Bill C-27 is a welcome sign that the government is taking Big Data seriously, but it needs some serious finessing before it’ll do more than reinforce the status quo - Kean Birch The federal government has tabled Bill C-27, the digital charter implementation act, which covers consumer privacy, data protection tribunal processes and the regulation […]
Racialized residents could face structural and systemic barriers to accessing, using and navigating Toronto’s greenspaces, say the authors of a new report led by York University. The report, “Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities: Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighbourhoods,” offers several recommendations toward making the city’s public greenspaces more welcoming to […]
View this Call for Submissions as a PDF From the depths of Dante’s Inferno to Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, subterranean and subaquatic environments have often been depicted as repositories of primordial forces and abiding secrets in the Western tradition. The much-repeated (if somewhat misleading; e.g. Copley, 2014) claim that humans have “explored” […]
Together with the executive committee, Jack Leong, associate dean of research and open scholarship at York University Libraries organized the conference for the Canadian Comparative Literature Association/L’Association Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (CCLA/ACLC). The event featured presentations from York faculty and graduate students. This year’s theme was “Divergence and Convergence of Comparative Literature” and the event took place […]