SSHRC Connection Grant Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

A Podcast Thinking through Language and Native Plants

inist — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:06:07 +0000

Principal Investigator: Lisa Myers. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2021-2022. This podcast creation project is an outreach and knowledge mobilization initiative of Finding Flowers with main focus on researching, replanting and caring for the more-than-twenty Medicine and Butterfly Garden artworks created across Canada by the late Mi'kmaw/Beothuk and 2-Spirit artist Mike MacDonald. MacDonald's gardens were […]

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Indigenous Economics Assembly

inist — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:00:54 +0000

Principal Investigator: Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2021-2022. The project supports the first collaborative Indigenous Economics Conference held in partnership by the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) and Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). The Assembly that took place virtually from June 10-12, 2021 brought together scholars, students, business leaders, organizers, policy-makers and community […]

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Polishing the Covenant Chain and renewing treaty relationships

paultran — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:36:00 +0000

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) called for the renewal of treaty relationships and the development of curriculum on treaties. Both the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the Ontario-based Ipperwash Inquiry identified treaty education as key in creating just and equitable relations. Five years after, Professor Martha Stiegman decided to further take up this challenge, in collaboration with […]

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Polishing the Chain

inist — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:20:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Martha Stiegman. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2020-2023. This is a knowledge translation project that leverages the research of the Indigenous-led Talking Treaties community arts project to instigate, amplify, and enrich public discussion on our treaty responsibilities as settler and Indigenous residents of Tkaron:to. The overarching goal is to activate along-neglected treaty obligation […]

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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

inist — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:19:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Andil Gosine. Funding: SSHRC Connections Grant. Term: 2020-2022. "Everything Slackens In A Wreck" is a line from Khal Torabully's "Coolitude" which expresses Indentures' experience of rebuilding and reinventing their lives during the period of indentureship. Trapped in the dehumanizing conditions of the Indentureship program, migrants nevertheless also simultaneously worked against tenets of caste […]

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Mobilizing sustainable energy research in the age of populism and COVID-19

inist — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:18:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Mark Winfield Funding: SSHRC Connections Grant. Term: 2020-2022. The project provides opportunities and platforms for researchers and practitioners to make connections between findings arising through different research projects and aids in setting future research agendas, including the impact of COVID-19 on low-carbon energy transitions. The subjects addressed through these projects have included energy […]

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