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 […]
Birds are important in human cultures, inspiring art, technology and in some cases, are significant sources of food. Migratory birds, those that spend parts of the year in different places, present challenges in understanding their ecology and conservation because their migration across jurisdictions requires a coordinated effort to manage their populations. This is true for […]
By Edward Greenspon Contributors Bruce Lourie (PhD '19 and MES '87) The era in which the 2015 Paris Agreement represented the holy writ of climate change action is fast drawing to a close — not because it has failed but because it has so spectacularly set the stage for policy-makers and markets to move toward the […]
The Canadian and global challenge of living within the Earth's carrying capacity requires robust measures of this capacity and its use by humans to meaningfully inform policy. Currently, Canada does not employ any such accounting system to monitor transition towards a carbon neutral future. Various measures and measurement systems are used to quantify carrying capacity […]
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 created by Professor Howard Daugherty following a donation made by Toronto physician and medical researcher, Dr. Woody […]
“Water is life” is a key slogan for anti-extractivist movements, particularly in the Americas. In a project that examines a dam conflict in the remote Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia, Professor Carlota McAllister explores how gauchos living in river valleys threatened with damming draw on this substance and the histories of its use on this “last frontier” […]
What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits? This is the overall question that the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) led by Professor Tim Jackson from the University of Surrey and participated in by York University’s Peter Victor and a network of experts is addressing to develop pragmatic steps towards a shared […]
With diverse geographic interests, Professor Patricia Wood's research focuses on citizenship, identity, mobility, and attachment to place. She does both contemporary and historical work in Canada, the United States and Ireland, analyzing a wide range of sources and activities concerning political expression and identity, as well as conducting community-based research with an emphasis on participatory, collaborative research practices. She […]