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Subversive performances of quarantine: Organizing across differences at the conjuncture of protest and the pandemic

Principal Investigator: Jinthana Haritaworn Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2026. The project examines the contributions that multiple marginalized communities are making to help their societies survive and recover from the pandemic. It proposes that those who have experienced and, often, led intersecting movements for justice are in an ideal position to innovate critiques and responses […]

Drivers and consequences of individual specialization in an Arctic marine top predator

Principal Investigator: Gregory Thiemann Funding: NSERC Discovery Grant. Term: 2021-2026. The proposed research involves testing hypotheses around the environmental drivers and ecological consequences of individual specialization, using the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) as a model species and target for conservation. As a long­-lived top predator in a dynamic habitat, polar bears demonstrate several characteristics that […]

Indigenous Climate Change Futures: Envisioning Well-Being with the Earth

Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor/Co-Investigators: Lisa Myers and Alan Corbiere Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2025. The project aims to define what it means to "live well" from a self-determined Indigenous perspective. Building on previous SSHRC-funded research, the project team will focus specifically on the Anishinaabek concept of mino-mnaamodzawin (well-being with all life) as aframework for […]

Making sex education more accessible to young people by theatre

by Shira Taylor In 2014, as a fresh-faced doctoral candidate, I walked into one of Toronto’s most diverse and overpopulated high schools with the idea of making sex education more accessible by inviting young people to sing, rap, and dance about everything from chlamydia to menstruation to homophobia. On my first visit to Marc Garneau […]

EUC Research Updates - June 2023

Welcome to the June 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 Calvin Lakhan on circular economy (and why the war on plastics may be misguided). […]

Understanding Anishinaabek G'giikendaaswinmin (knowledge) on N'bi (water) in the Great Lakes Territory for Water Governance

This June, in celebration of National Indigenous History Month, Susan Chiblow, PhD alumna and now Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Science, is interviewed by Research Assistant, Igor Lutay, on her research work on water knowledge, Indigenous law, and bridging western science with Indigenous science. Q. What inspired you to choose […]

EUC, ESAC and UBC Centre for Climate Justice host Indigenous knowing and climate futures panel at Congress

On May 31st 2023 the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) and the Centre for Climate Justice (UBC) hosted an Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures panel as part of Congress 2023 at York University. The keynote panel (now available on YouTube) featured Candis Callison, Associate Professor and […]

Pastures: Exploring queer woman body and the transitions and revelations as part of the aging process

by Vanessa Dunn “Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.”[1] Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts My thesis project and installation, “Pastures”, is inspired by my own experience as an aging queer woman and the environments that have cultivated […]

Pandemic urbanism: Emerging infectious disease on a planet of cities

by Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, and Roger Keil Cities have never been confined to, or accurately defined by, their physical boundaries — and the extensive character of urban processes has tremendous implications for global health. Extended urbanization is development occurring at the peripheries of metropolitan cores, whether suburban or post-suburban zones or hinterland areas, and […]

Dear Jason Mamoa, please teach me about the circular economy (…and why the war on plastics is misguided)

by Calvin Lakhan First off, I want to preface this by saying I have nothing against Jason Mamoa – in fact, I enjoy his movies and he seems like a perfectly nice guy. But with all due respect to him (and the 30 other celebrities who signed a letter to President Biden asking the administration […]