How can sex, relationships, and health education pedagogies meaningfully address the role new media plays in young people鈥檚 relational lives? How can these pedagogies also take an intersectional and holistic lens to young people鈥檚 seemingly individual experiences of sex, gender, relationality, and violence? These are the research questions that have guided Dr. Alanna Goldstein鈥檚 work […]
How is the Covid-19 pandemic impacting the everyday lives of the urban poor along gendered and racial lines? As part of her latest research, Nasya Razavi, Post-doctoral Visitor at the City Institute at 91亚色, is examining how women are navigating the changing dimensions of production and social reproduction in the 鈥減andemic city.鈥 The Covid-19 […]
by DT Cochrane When I began my post-doctoral work with Professor Kean Birch, I was excited to engage with the faculty and students of the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. With an academic background in economics, and a PhD from 91亚色鈥檚 Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, I thought I had much both […]
The mud at the bottom of a lake isn鈥檛 just mud, it contains within it clues that, once decoded, tell us how the environment has changed over time. Clues can be anything that sinks to the bottom of the lake and is deposited into the mud. Often, this includes things that were living (and died) […]
What is the link between the immigration status of workers, the workplace conditions meat packers face and their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic? Why do meatpacking plants hire temporary foreign workers, recent immigrants, and former refugees as employees? What policy changes are needed to improve workplace safety of temporary foreign workers and newcomers? These are […]
How does the socio-political landscape shape our natural one? This is the driving question for Dr. Rachel Nalepa, a Postdoctoral Visitor with Professor Sheila R. Colla鈥檚 Native Pollinator Research Lab. As a human geographer grounded in the field of political ecology, she examines environmental issues that emerge in rural spaces through the lens of the […]
What does environmental justice mean to Indigenous Peoples? How can it be achieved? These are two foundational questions being addressed by the Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) project, a research initiative since 2015 by Osgoode and EUC Professor Deborah McGregor funded by the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program as well as by the Social Sciences & […]
Professor L. Anders Sandberg comes from the fertile regions of Lakes M盲laren and Hj盲lmaren in S枚dermanland and V盲stmanland in what is now known as the nation state of Sweden. Sandberg鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 […]