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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Aidin Torkameh On 16 September last year, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman named Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was murdered, severely beaten by the Islamic morality police. Her death resulted in nation-wide protests that have been unfolding in Iran for more than 40 days. Iran Human Rights reported that at least 233 people have been killed by security forces across […]
Working animals have historically occupied important roles in human societies as protectors, partners in work, companions, and others. Social, economic, and ecological changes over time – as well as new ideas about the proper ‘place’ of animals in our human world – have created new expectations for working animals and their caregivers. Despite the fact […]
About Alia Abbas Alia Abbas (she/her) is the CEO/Founder of Alia Consulting – an Economic Development Firm with an offices in Toronto and Texas. She was previously an Economic Development Officer at the City of Toronto. She has experience assisting local and foreign businesses with their expansion plans into the Toronto Region. Her academic accomplishments […]
Professor Ilan Kapoor has a new co-authored book titled Global Libidinal Economy (SUNY Press, 2023). The book examines global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective and claims that the libidinal—the site of unconscious desire—plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive, role in global political economy. The book will be launched at the Author Meets Critics Session at […]
Ria Jhoanna Ducusin’s doctoral research in Geography examines how ecological conditions and socio-political relations create and shape flooding in coastal cities. On a global scale, 53% of the world’s population resides in coastal areas in 4,285 coastal cities. By 2050, about 70% of the population is projected to live in these cities. However, the scale […]
As an urban, social and political geographer Professor Ranu Basu’s research explores questions of power, space and activism focusing on the urban geographies of migration and displacement; critical geographies of education; and the politics of redistributive justice. Basu’s current SSHRC Insight project on ‘Subalterity, Education and Welfare Cities’ traces the geopolitical impacts of forced displacement […]