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Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure beyond Extractivism

inist — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:06:00 +0000

Co-Principal Investigators: Dayna Nadine Scott and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant Term: 2021-2027 Resource conflicts and legal uncertainties have dominated the political landscape over the last decade; conflicts over extraction and its infrastructures have intensified, catalyzing a fierce Indigenous resurgence. As the research team conceived this project, hereditary leaders were blocking a pipeline […]

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Indigenous Climate Change Futures: Envisioning Well-Being with the Earth

inist — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:13:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor/Co-Investigators: Lisa Myers and Alan Corbiere Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2025. The project aims to define what it means to "live well" from a self-determined Indigenous perspective. Building on previous SSHRC-funded research, the project team will focus specifically on the Anishinaabek concept of mino-mnaamodzawin (well-being with all life) as aframework for […]

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EUC and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

paultran — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:32:20 +0000

Reduce inequality within and among countries. Inequality results in both local and global financial and social discriminations and hinders the wellbeing of the entire planet. SDG 10 asserts that access to equal opportunities and universal inclusion will result in a more prosperous world. EUC research is committed to critical intersectional research of social determinants, such […]

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Ontario must commit to affordable housing for all, not attainable housing

patilpos — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:59:41 +0000

by Murat Ucoglu and Ute Lehrer During his provincial election victory speech on June 2, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he aimed to build more housing to make the housing market more “attainable” for everyone. Although most people probably didn’t pay close attention to the specific choice of words Ford used during his speech, it’s alarming […]

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Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighborhoods

paultran — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:12:00 +0000

Racialized residents in Jane and Finch and St. James Town neighbourhoods identified structural and systemic barriers to accessing, using, and navigating greenspaces, the study finds. Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities is a community-based participatory research project that explores the experiences of racialized and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) in public greenspaces. The research, […]

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Professor Andil Gosine is co-editor of the ‘Wasafiri’ summer 2022 issue

paultran — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:41:06 +0000

Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Professor Andil Gosine is the guest co-editor of Wasafiri Issue 110: Afterlives of Indenture – exploring the legacy of indentured workers across the Indo-Caribbean and the diasporic experience. Among the contributors of the Summer 2022 issue is co-editor Nalini Mohabir, assistant professor at Concordia University; filmmaker Richard Fund; novelist-poet Ramabai Espinet; life […]

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The Black Creek walks, talks and dances

paultran — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:31:11 +0000

A workshop on April 23 that was preceded by two walks the week earlier, highlighted through creative expression Indigenous people’s sacred connection to moving water and the earth. On Saturday, April 23, Skennen’kó:wa Gamig, the House of Great Peace, located on the Keele Campus hosted a workshop by Taǫmęˀšreˀ/Catherine Tàmmaro, seated Spotted Turtle Clan utrihǫt […]

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91��ɫ commits $1M over three years to support Indigenous research

paultran — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:27:04 +0000

Indigenous research at 91��ɫ will be supported with funding of $1 million over three years through the 91��ɫ Indigenous Research Seed Fund. The fund provides emerging and established Indigenous scholars with support for research that advances excellence in Indigenous knowledge, languages and ways of knowing and being. A call for applications was administered […]

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Novel approaches to restoring Indigenous governing authority over lands and waterways

patilpos — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:24:01 +0000

What is the relationship between infrastructure and jurisdiction? How can remaking the material systems that sustain collective life enact Indigenous jurisdiction? How can the “just transition” to sustainable economies be imagined and infrastructured to foreground Indigenous knowledges and governance systems? These are the questions that Osgoode-EUC Professor Dayna Nadine Scott and project co-director Professor Heidi […]

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Sand and stone materials mining in the Jeneberang River in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

patilpos — Tue, 10 May 2022 20:04:07 +0000

Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera My dissertation explores the extractive industry of river sand and stone materials[1] by drawing on empirical research in the Jeneberang river in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. In recent years real estate capital has been key to reinvigorate the global economy, especially in Asia. This has aroused the commercial interest in […]

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