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Las Nubes
Project Investigator: Felipe Montoya-Greenheck Funding: Fisher Fund for Neotropical Conservation; Lillian Meighen and Don Wright Foundation Term: 1998-to-date The Las Nubes project in Costa Rica supports the protection of the biological, ecological and social values of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor which contains the Las Nubes forest reserve that borders the largest protected area in Central America. Originally […]
Imagining political and economic alternatives between Canada and the Philippines
In the Filipino language, ate (pronounced “ah-tay”) means big sister. It is also the acronym for a research initiative based at York known as ‘ATE’ – the Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies project. ATE was funded between 2015 and 2022 by a SSHRC Insight Grant, with Philip Kelly as the principal investigator, and co-investigators from Canada […]
Sand and stone materials mining in the Jeneberang River in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera My dissertation explores the extractive industry of river sand and stone materials[1] by drawing on empirical research in the Jeneberang river in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. In recent years real estate capital has been key to reinvigorate the global economy, especially in Asia. This has aroused the commercial interest in […]
Inclusion and exclusion in global production networks: The case of Myanmar migrant seafood processing workers in Thailand
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of global production networks (GPNs). Throughout the pandemic, GPNs have experienced disruptions as manufacturing facilities have closed and consumers have been placed under lockdown. The impacts of such disruption have led to the reduction in wages and unemployment of millions of factory workers across South and Southeast Asia, […]