Why do we eat what we eat? What are the links between food, people, language and land? Furthermore, what are the links between mothering/homemaking, art, technology and food? This is the focus of study by EUC PhD student and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow Chandra Maracle on the psychology of eating and how to use food as […]
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is home to two graduate programs, Environmental Studies and Geography, both of which offer Master's degrees and the PhD, as well as two graduate diplomas. Our graduate degree programs are designed to train and empower diverse thinkers through multi-disciplinary approaches and hands-on learning opportunities to make positive change. […]
by Peter Vandergeest, Melissa Marschke, and Peter Duker Many public health researchers have looked to the Asia-Pacific region, including countries like Thailand, for lessons on successful pandemic management. These countries have demonstrated how it is possible to minimize community spread and thus also reduce the need for lockdowns. However, recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Thailand and nearby countries also offer warnings […]
by Cari Wu, Abidin Kusno, Ann H. Kim, Guida Man, Jing Zhao, Muyang Li, S. Harris Ali, Zhifan Luo and scholars from other universities Anti-Asian racism has been present in Canada for centuries. It is deeply rooted in the historical formation of Canada through the Chinese head tax, Japanese internment camps, the Electoral Franchise Act, which explicitly denied Chinese Canadians […]
In a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Professor Emeritus Glen Norcliffe examines the role Canada has played as China develops its professional hockey teams in the run up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to be held in and around Beijing. Geography masters candidate, Phillip Sarrazin is research assistant for the project. For the purposes of […]
by Corals Zheng The University of Toronto St. George Campus (UTSG) borders on a number of historic neighbourhoods that continue to house communities of artists, students, families, seniors, and immigrants. West Chinatown in particular serves as one of the last immigrant landing communities in Downtown Toronto that offers affordable culturally appropriate foods, professional services, employment, […]
What is a disaster? What are the root causes and material manifestations of vulnerability? What is well-being and what efforts do community leaders and civil society engage in as front-line responders to disasters? These are the questions that PhD doctoral candidate, Chaya Go asked in her doctoral dissertation on A Feminist Political Ecology of Disasters […]
by Jennifer Hyndman, Amarnath Amarasingham, and Gayathri Naganathan When states focus on diasporas through a securitizing lens, they often frame diaspora political engagement in terms of violent nationalisms, extremism and threat. At times the Tamil diaspora in Canada (the largest Tamil diaspora in the world) has been depicted in this way, especially after the Canadian […]
by Chan Arun-Pina There is a shocking dearth of work within the current geographies of sexualities and the emerging trans geographies literature at the spatial scale of urban housing, with a particularly normative gap yet to be filled attending to transient housing such as urban rental housing (i.e., non-ownership based), and institutional housing (i.e., often […]
by Mallory MacDonnell Work in fishing has received increasing attention as one of the most difficult but also poorly monitored and regulated jobs in the world. It is subject to ambiguous and overlapping jurisdiction. I travelled to Taiwan in October 2020 to start fieldwork for my dissertation. Taiwan has one of the world’s largest distant […]