Principal Investigator: Lisa Myers. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2021-2022. This podcast creation project is an outreach and knowledge mobilization initiative of Finding Flowers with main focus on researching, replanting and caring for the more-than-twenty Medicine and Butterfly Garden artworks created across Canada by the late Mi'kmaw/Beothuk and 2-Spirit artist Mike MacDonald. MacDonald's gardens were […]
Principal Investigator: Sarah Flicker. Partner: Sketch Working Arts. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Term: 2021-2023. The project aims to build on and actualize the knowledge and learning surfaced and generated by Sketch Working Arts' Making with Place youth artist researchers, to disseminate key stories and findings, and identify pathways forward for the Sketch agency, and […]
Principal Investigator: Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2021-2022. The project supports the first collaborative Indigenous Economics Conference held in partnership by the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) and Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). The Assembly that took place virtually from June 10-12, 2021 brought together scholars, students, business leaders, organizers, policy-makers and community […]
Principal Investigator: Sarah Flicker Funding: York Research Chair Term: 2020-2025 The overarching goal of the research program is to improve the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of youth communities with a special emphasis on those communities that experience heightened vulnerabilities as a result of historic and ongoing structural and interpersonal violence. Focusing on improving structural, […]
Principal Investigator: Sheila Colla Funding: York Research Chair Term: 2020-2025 The research program over the next five years continues to combine ecology, citizen science, policy and biocultural understanding to better address pollinator conservation and management challenges. The broad objectives are to: investigate differential success of native pollinators subject to multiple environmental stressors; develop new conservation […]
By MES Alumn Michael Bach & Carlos Ríos-Espinosa Canada is celebrated for welcoming newcomers and refugees, and for its commitments to building a multicultural, diverse and tolerant society. But if you scratch the surface, this is the hard truth: every year, Canada’s immigration and refugee asylum system detains thousands of people who are seeking protection […]
Alice Hovorka, dean and professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, has co-edited a new book, A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021), with Sandra McCubbin from the Government of Canada and Lauren Van Patter from Queen’s University. Launched at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers on April […]
What does environmental justice mean to Indigenous Peoples? How can it be achieved? These are two foundational questions being addressed by the Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) project, a research initiative since 2015 by Osgoode and EUC Professor Deborah McGregor funded by the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program as well as by the Social Sciences & […]
Miijim: Food as Relations was EUC’s inaugural seminar series in Fall and Winter 2020-2021 that involved conversations among distinguished Indigenous, Black and People of Colour food scholars, growers, artists, and advocates from all over Canada. The series of events attended by 150-250 participants, some with more than 500 views were presented by the Finding Flowers project co-led […]
What is humanity’s relationship to water and efforts on improvement for humans, animals, and the waters themselves? How does Anishinaabek law construct the role of women in decision making about water? How does Anishinaabek law understand the relationship between water and memory? What responsibilities do humans have under Naaknigewin (law/Anishinaabek legal traditions)? Can the broader […]