Research Project

Taking Space, Making Space: Digital Maps by Queers of Colour in Toronto

Principal Investigator: Jinthana Haritaworn. Funding: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. Term: 2015-2021. The five-year study explores collective experiences of belonging and displacement among queer and trans Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour (QTBIPOC) who live, work or play in Toronto. Using digital maps, the study sheds light on alternative forms of taking […]

Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A)

Co-Investigators: Patricia Perkins and Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2014-2021. Human beings have had such a powerful impact on planetary environmental systems since the Industrial Revolution that scientists say Earth has entered a new geologic age: the Anthropocene, the era of humanity and its effects on Earth. York and University of Vermont are collaborating on […]