By Michael David The research was done as part of ENVS 6128, Urban Transportation Planning in the Winter 2023 semester. Dr. Mahtot Gebresselassie was the course director. The aim of the study was to examine disability accessibility on York University's Keele Campus. This summary highlights some of our findings. Our group focused on safety and […]
Room HNES 283, Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies Building, York University An art space on the second floor of HNES. With a vision of being an initiative for radical movements and an inspiration for a new generation of environmental activists, the gallery is open to all artists in the field who would like to showcase their […]
Curator: Nashwa Lina Khan This piece takes from archival images of Bousbir - what was essentially a sex prison in Morocco during colonial occupation and news articles from the present about an ‘uncolonized’ Morocco The role of Moroccan women in the world is one that I explore throughout these pieces and my larger body […]
by Shira Taylor In 2014, as a fresh-faced doctoral candidate, I walked into one of Toronto’s most diverse and overpopulated high schools with the idea of making sex education more accessible by inviting young people to sing, rap, and dance about everything from chlamydia to menstruation to homophobia. On my first visit to Marc Garneau […]
Welcome to the June 2023 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our past updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Calvin Lakhan on circular economy (and why the war on plastics may be misguided). […]
This June, in celebration of National Indigenous History Month, Susan Chiblow, PhD alumna and now Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Science, is interviewed by Research Assistant, Igor Lutay, on her research work on water knowledge, Indigenous law, and bridging western science with Indigenous science. Q. What inspired you to choose […]
On May 31st 2023 the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) and the Centre for Climate Justice (UBC) hosted an Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures panel as part of Congress 2023 at York University. The keynote panel (now available on YouTube) featured Candis Callison, Associate Professor and […]
by Vanessa Dunn “Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.”[1] Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts My thesis project and installation, “Pastures”, is inspired by my own experience as an aging queer woman and the environments that have cultivated […]
by Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, and Roger Keil Cities have never been confined to, or accurately defined by, their physical boundaries — and the extensive character of urban processes has tremendous implications for global health. Extended urbanization is development occurring at the peripheries of metropolitan cores, whether suburban or post-suburban zones or hinterland areas, and […]
by Calvin Lakhan First off, I want to preface this by saying I have nothing against Jason Mamoa – in fact, I enjoy his movies and he seems like a perfectly nice guy. But with all due respect to him (and the 30 other celebrities who signed a letter to President Biden asking the administration […]