Welcome to the June 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Loren March on understanding the particularities of how queer urban […]
by Loren March While there have been many studies on queer geographies and geographies of sexualities in the city of Toronto, these have – with some notable exceptions (for example Sandilands & Hobbs 2013) – tended not to focus on urban ecologies or more-than-human worlds. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Environmental and […]
We are thrilled to invite you to a special event on June 26th, organized by EUC, Maloca Garden, and Regenesis. It promises to be a day filled with fun, food, and awareness. Event Details: · Date: June 26th, 2024 · Time: 12 - 2pm · Location: We all start together at 11:50am from EUC main entrance. Highlights: · Enjoy a guided hike […]
“The only way to appropriately understand Indigenous Knowledge Systems or Indigenous Knowledges is to establish meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples on their own terms.” - Deborah McGregor What is Indigenous knowledge and how does it contribute to the achievement of UN’s Sustainable Development Goal on climate action? How can the integration of Indigenous knowledge contribute […]
About Alana Jones Alana Jones is the Founder and Executive Director at Borden Place Inc. We caught up with Alana, who shared with us her experience at EUC and her journey post-graduation, which includes forming Borden Place Inc., her own registered non-profit charitable organization formed out of community advocacy and necessity. Their vision was simple: […]
Exhibit at Zig Zag Gallery: June 3rd, 2024 - August 15th, 2024 The Banana Fish Project is a character art series by artist Michael Bradley. Using his banana fish characters as the focus of his master’s project, he imagines brighter futures and alternative ways of living through painting, sculpture, prints, and picture books. The current […]
About Rabia Munir Rabia is currently working as Associate Development Manager at GWL Realty Advisors. She has experience with urban planning, quantitative and qualitative research, and building construction. Rabia draws on past projects and education to develop creative solutions to contemporary projects. Could you share how you decided on the stream that you’d be focusing […]
by Sarah Rotz Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on a hitherto neglected topic: The expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country’s north. Focusing on the intertwined processes of capitalist frontier-making, large-scale land assembly, and financialization, she engages with the questions of whether such processes reify settler colonial land […]
