During the on-going pandemic, humanity’s suffering has increased enormously. To date, 35 million people in the world have contracted the coronavirus, and more than 1 million have died. In the richest and most powerful country in the world, more than 7 million cases have been reported, with more than 200,000 deaths. While the more affluent […]
Ontario Morning from CBC Radio Prof. Gail Fraser has long studied cormorants. She explains her opposition to the provincial government's decision to allow the birds to be hunted. With files from cbc.ca.
Confronting Desire Psychoanalysis and International Development By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires, and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: […]
By Bruce Campbell, Adjunct professor The speech from the throne is only weeks away. Moments like these — pandemics, depressions, wars — are historical turning points, often marking a time period when fundamental change toward social and economic equality become possible. Unlike the apparently failed state south of the border that seems to be trudging […]
The Agenda with Steve Paikin Earlier this summer the Ontario government announced the introduction of a fall hunting season for double-crested cormorants, starting September 15. Gail Fraser, a professor at York University, specializes in water birds and discusses the hunt and what it could mean for the cormorant's future. Watch now. Episode: Culture, Identity, and […]
Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor. Co-Investigators: Dayna Scott and Martha Stiegman. Funding: Canada Research Chair. Term: 2020-2025. The Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) research and outreach project aims to develop a distinctive EJ framework that is informed by Indigenous knowledge systems, laws, concepts of justice and the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples. It serves as a resource for […]
Project Investigator: Jennifer Hyndman. Partner: ActionDignity. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Term: 2020-2022. The project seeks to unpack the links between the migration status of meat packers and their experience of COVID-19. Reports in the media and by community advocates, including partner organization, ActionDignity, indicate that the workforce is composed of almost entirely of migrant […]
Principal Investigator: Martha Stiegman. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2020-2023. This is a knowledge translation project that leverages the research of the Indigenous-led Talking Treaties community arts project to instigate, amplify, and enrich public discussion on our treaty responsibilities as settler and Indigenous residents of Tkaron:to. The overarching goal is to activate along-neglected treaty obligation […]
Principal Investigator: Andil Gosine. Funding: SSHRC Connections Grant. Term: 2020-2022. "Everything Slackens In A Wreck" is a line from Khal Torabully's "Coolitude" which expresses Indentures' experience of rebuilding and reinventing their lives during the period of indentureship. Trapped in the dehumanizing conditions of the Indentureship program, migrants nevertheless also simultaneously worked against tenets of caste […]
Principal Investigator: Mark Winfield Funding: SSHRC Connections Grant. Term: 2020-2022. The project provides opportunities and platforms for researchers and practitioners to make connections between findings arising through different research projects and aids in setting future research agendas, including the impact of COVID-19 on low-carbon energy transitions. The subjects addressed through these projects have included energy […]