Professor L. Anders Sandberg comes from the fertile regions of Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren in Södermanland and Västmanland in what is now known as the nation state of Sweden. Sandberg’s ancestors come from the generations of farmers, tenant farmers, soldier farmers, cottagers, coachmen, and handicraft people who worked among and for the farm estates of the royalty […]
Miijim: Food as Relations was EUC’s inaugural seminar series in Fall and Winter 2020-2021 that involved conversations among distinguished Indigenous, Black and People of Colour food scholars, growers, artists, and advocates from all over Canada. The series of events attended by 150-250 participants, some with more than 500 views were presented by the Finding Flowers project co-led […]
What is humanity’s relationship to water and efforts on improvement for humans, animals, and the waters themselves? How does Anishinaabek law construct the role of women in decision making about water? How does Anishinaabek law understand the relationship between water and memory? What responsibilities do humans have under Naaknigewin (law/Anishinaabek legal traditions)? Can the broader […]
As a settler scholar-activist, Professor Sarah Rotz’s work focuses on political ecologies of land and food systems, settler colonial patriarchy, and concepts of sovereignty and justice related to food, water and energy, and the ecosystems that support them. Having lived in Guelph and Toronto, Rotz has worked with various organizations and campaigns from fossil fuel divestment, food […]
Why do we eat what we eat? What are the links between food, people, language and land? Furthermore, what are the links between mothering/homemaking, art, technology and food? This is the focus of study by EUC PhD student and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow Chandra Maracle on the psychology of eating and how to use food as […]
by Peter Vandergeest, Melissa Marschke, and Peter Duker Many public health researchers have looked to the Asia-Pacific region, including countries like Thailand, for lessons on successful pandemic management. These countries have demonstrated how it is possible to minimize community spread and thus also reduce the need for lockdowns. However, recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Thailand and nearby countries also offer warnings […]
by Cari Wu, Abidin Kusno, Ann H. Kim, Guida Man, Jing Zhao, Muyang Li, S. Harris Ali, Zhifan Luo and scholars from other universities Anti-Asian racism has been present in Canada for centuries. It is deeply rooted in the historical formation of Canada through the Chinese head tax, Japanese internment camps, the Electoral Franchise Act, which explicitly denied Chinese Canadians […]
In a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Professor Emeritus Glen Norcliffe examines the role Canada has played as China develops its professional hockey teams in the run up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to be held in and around Beijing. Geography masters candidate, Phillip Sarrazin is research assistant for the project. For the purposes of […]
by Corals Zheng The University of Toronto St. George Campus (UTSG) borders on a number of historic neighbourhoods that continue to house communities of artists, students, families, seniors, and immigrants. West Chinatown in particular serves as one of the last immigrant landing communities in Downtown Toronto that offers affordable culturally appropriate foods, professional services, employment, […]
What is a disaster? What are the root causes and material manifestations of vulnerability? What is well-being and what efforts do community leaders and civil society engage in as front-line responders to disasters? These are the questions that PhD doctoral candidate, Chaya Go asked in her doctoral dissertation on A Feminist Political Ecology of Disasters […]