Examining the socio-economic and health vulnerabilities of female bushmeat traders in the context of COVID-19 in Ghana
Co-Investigator: Joseph Mensah Funding: IDRC Term: 2023-2025 The project aims to examine the interrelated factors that determine women’s livelihood challenges and opportunities in the context of COVID-19. The project draws on the case of women bushmeat traders in Ghana involving both qualitative and quantitative data collection instruments and the participation
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Legacy Project
Co-Investigator: Jose Etcheverry Funding: Legacy Project Term: 2022-2025 The Legacy Project is an independent systems research, education, and innovation group. It draws on multidisciplinary research in the natural and social sciences, as well as Indigenous worldviews and knowledge. The project stewards 7-Generation bioregional work through social and ecological regeneration on
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Vertical peripheries: Planning and citizenship in Colombia’s commodified periurban housing towers
Project Investigators: Luisa Sotomayor and Lina Brand Correa Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 This interdisciplinary research project (Canada, Colombia, urban planning, anthropology, development studies, and ecological economics) will investigate the implementation and effects of Colombia’s market-based housing policy as it restructures the country’s metropolitan peripheries. Specifically, the project aims
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High-rise living, public space and COVID-19 in the Greater Toronto Area
Project Investigator: Ute Lehrer Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 High-rise buildings have long been a significant form in urban development. But this form of living comes with its own challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic of the last two years has magnified some of the problems for life in close
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The city after COVID-19: Comparing vulnerability and urban governance in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg
Project Investigators: Roger Keil (York), Xuefei Ren (MSU) and Philip Harrison (WITS) Funding: Urban Studies Foundation Term: 2022-2023 This is a pilot study of a larger comparative project on the complex effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban governance intended to initiate a systematic comparison of vulnerability and governance in
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Nature’s Wild
Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant Term: 2022-2023. The project shares the author’s research collected in Nature’ Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2021). In Nature’s Wild, Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise historical and
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Colin Robinson’s unfinished work
Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2026 This five-year interdisciplinary project examines historical and contemporary articulations of and approaches to the security of sexual autonomy through consideration of the intellectual, literary and political legacy of Colin M. Robinson, the Black, Queer, Caribbean-American writer and activist who made
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Oral history, music-making and food justice
Project Investigator: Honor Ford-Smith Funding: Carswell Family Foundation Term: 2020-2023 The project aims to create music that teaches about food justice, health and nutrition through oral histories. It responds to concerns in the Jane/Finch community and offers a chance for knowledge exchange between generations, music-making and production, and community education
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Energy solidarity in Latin America: Generating inclusive knowledge and governance to address energy vulnerability and energy systems resilience – Colombia, Cuba and Mexico
Collaborator: Lina Brand-Correa. Principal Investigator: Harriet Thomson Funding: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. Term: 2020-2024 ESLatinA responds to the urgent need for comprehensive and inclusive understanding, evidence and governance capacity on energy vulnerability in Latin America, with an in-depth focus on Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. Energy vulnerability occurs
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Climate, conflict, and co-existence: Identifying the drivers of human-polar bear interaction in Southern Hudson Bay
Principal Investigator: Gregory Thiemann Funding: World Wildlife Fund Term: 2021 – to date The primary goal of this research is to reduce the risk of human-polar bear conflict. This will both reduce the risk of injury to people and reduce the number of polar bears killed in defense of life
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