by Aidin Torkameh On 16 September last year, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman named Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was murdered, severely beaten by the Islamic morality police. Her death resulted in nation-wide protests that have been unfolding in Iran for more than 40 days. Iran Human Rights reported that at least 233 people have been killed by security forces across […]
Working animals have historically occupied important roles in human societies as protectors, partners in work, companions, and others. Social, economic, and ecological changes over time – as well as new ideas about the proper ‘place’ of animals in our human world – have created new expectations for working animals and their caregivers. Despite the fact […]
Professor Ilan Kapoor has a new co-authored book titled Global Libidinal Economy (SUNY Press, 2023). The book examines global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective and claims that the libidinal—the site of unconscious desire—plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive, role in global political economy. The book will be launched at the Author Meets Critics Session at […]
Ria Jhoanna Ducusin’s doctoral research in Geography examines how ecological conditions and socio-political relations create and shape flooding in coastal cities. On a global scale, 53% of the world’s population resides in coastal areas in 4,285 coastal cities. By 2050, about 70% of the population is projected to live in these cities. However, the scale […]
As an urban, social and political geographer Professor Ranu Basu’s research explores questions of power, space and activism focusing on the urban geographies of migration and displacement; critical geographies of education; and the politics of redistributive justice. Basu’s current SSHRC Insight project on ‘Subalterity, Education and Welfare Cities’ traces the geopolitical impacts of forced displacement […]
In the recently published Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State, Professor Raju Das asks readers to reflect on the nature of the State, including government and its institutions, and how its actions exacerbate social maladies. The book’s premise is that without a theoretical understanding of the state, one cannot adequately explain humanity’s major problems such as uneven […]
EUC is proud to announce the launch of Professor Jennifer Foster’s latest book, Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace: Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice (2022). All are welcome to attend the book launch on Friday, May 19 at 1PM in HNES 142. The event will also be broadcast on zoom – for a zoom link please contact Denise McLeod: […]
EUC is celebrating the launch of Professor Patricia Wood’s latest book Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia (UBC Press, 2022). Wood celebrates this accomplishment alongside her co-author, Dr. David Rossiter, professor at Western Washington University, and a York Geography alumnus. All are welcome to attend the book launch event on Monday, […]
Recent developments in Canadian migratory policy have propelled Canada ahead of its G7 counterparts in population growth. Hundreds of thousands of newly arrived immigrants from all around the globe step foot on Canadian soil every year, and their presence, while welcomed by many, has elicited fear and intolerance by far-right extremists who see immigrants as […]
Professor emeritus & senior Scholar Credentials Ph.D. Geography, Queen's University, Belfast B.A. (Honours 1st Class), Geography, Queen's University, Belfast Research Keywords Biogeochemistry, hydrology, wetlands, riparian buffer zones and streams. Contact Information hill@yorku.ca Research Interests My research examines the interactions between biogeochemistry and hydrology that regulate stream chemistry in temperate landscapes. I focus on analyzing the […]