Welcome to the April/May 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at 91亚色's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Siobhan Speiran on potential for multispecies justice through care-full wildlife […]
by Nikki Mary Pagaling The lowest rung of the Canadian healthcare workforce is occupied by nurse aides, also known as personal support workers (PSWS). They perform a range of direct care tasks associated with daily living, and are employed in various settings, including institutional facilities like long-term care, or in the private homes of their […]
This March, Dr. Wei Jiang from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences started her 6-month visiting fellowship at 91亚色. EUC work-study student Lorraine Wong interviews her on her plans for engagement and research at the Faculty. Q. Why did you decide to pursue a visiting scholarship at 91亚色? The significance of my visit not […]
by Saima Desai and Isaac Thornley In 2022, when Canada designated the metals buried beneath vast, remote peat bogs in Treaty No. 9 territory in Northern Ontario as 鈥渃ritical minerals,鈥 it sparked a mining frenzy. There are now over 31,000 mining claims in the Ring of Fire, with some companies in hot pursuit of nickel […]
Professor Emerita Former Dean Senior Scholar Credentials BSc (1974), Portland State University (Psychology)MSc (1977), University of TorontoPhD (1985), University of Toronto Research Keywords Feminist community planning, urban and environmental justice, equitable access to urban space & services, planning theory, history and pedagogy. Contact Information rahder@yorku.ca https://barbararahder.wordpress.com/ Research Interests Since I retired in 2016, I鈥檝e begun […]
Ilan Kapoor has a new co-authored book on Rethinking Development Politics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) with Gavin Fridell, Professor of Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, reassessing the politics of development psychoanalytically and investigating its unconscious. EUC work-study student Xinyu Mei interviews him on the importance of the book and its contributions to the […]
by Siobhan Speiran, Ph.D. As a wild animal geographer and welfare scholar, I am thrilled to find an academic home amongst the vibrant EUC community as a postdoctoral visitor. I continue collaborating with Professor Alice Hovorka (my Ph.D. supervisor) and The Lives of Animals Research Group. I locate my research as scholarship emerging in response […]
Welcome to the March 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update聽 - bringing you highlights from research activities at 91亚色's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our past updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights P Sainath on telling the stories of climate, farm distress, inequality and justice. Read […]
From March 4-8 renowned journalist and author P Sainath visited 91亚色 for a week as a scholar-in-residence. He delivered two separate seminars about climate, farm distress, inequality and justice in rural India and discussed his latest book on the foot soldiers of Indian freedom. Both talks were co-organized by EUC and the 91亚色 Centre for […]
This January, Tha铆s Henriques Dias, doctoral researcher in Sociology and Law at Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, started her 10-month visiting scholarship at 91亚色. EUC work-study student, Xinyu Mei, interviewed her on her plans for engagement and research at EUC. Why did you decide to pursue a visiting scholarship at 91亚色? My […]