Making With Place: Community arts as critical pedagogies of place
by Phyllis Novak and Charlotte Lombardo, with contributions from Making With Place artists and support from Sarah Flicker and Lisa Myers Creative leads, Naty Tremblay and Ty Sloane, Artists-in-residence: Madeleine Lychek, Em Dial, Bert Whitecrow, Zephyr McKenna, Pogi The Artist and The Noise Witch, Elder and Mentor, Blu Waters
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Plantasmagoria: Botanical encounters in the (M)Anthropocene
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene with Cate Sandilands, November 2023. In an interview for the podcast series “Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene” released on November 20, Cate Sandilands discussed her work in critical feminist plant studies with host Kate Brelje. Asked about the “critical feminist” emphasis of her
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Deriving York’s greenhouse gas emission and Ecological Footprint
by Eric Miller, Apeksha, Sophie Angoh, and Elizabeth Holloway York University commissioned EUC’s Ecological Footprint Initiative to assess greenhouse gas emissions, and Ecological Footprint, attributable to York from May 1 2015-April 30 2020. This was a pre-pandemic baseline of fiscal years 2016 to 2020. Emissions were assessed according to a
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Post-consumer management of end-of-life electric vehicle batteries
by Mark Winfield, Jonathan Myers and Sumeet Sooch Winfield, Myers & Sooch, 2023. The Canadian federal government, as well as the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, has committed tens of billions of dollars to the development of electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facilities and supply chains over the past two years. Substantial support is
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Extended urbanization on the cerrado (savanna) of central-western Brazil
Patricia Silva Gomes This November, Dr. Patricia Silva Gomes, starts her 5-month visiting scholarship at York and 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 York University? A. I chose
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Addressing intersectional vulnerabilities to mitigate climate disparities affecting low-income renters and homeowners
by Niloofar Mohtat Niloofar Mohtat As the global climate continues to change, disparities in access to resilient, affordable, and safe housing originated from income inequalities and raised housing prices intensify vulnerabilities and exposures of low-income Canadians specifically in large cities to different hazards. There are several evidence on the disproportionate
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Ghosts of diaspora: Hauntology, Hip-Hop and diasporic memory in the colonial Anthropocene
by Sergio Guerra Sergio Guerra This paper explores the political imagination and emancipatory potential of the post-war hinge generation of the Salvadorian post-war diaspora. Through the ethnographic narratives of Hip-Hop recording artist Cheko7even, the production of a hauntological album entitled “The Migrant Report” and an adaptation screenplay entitled, “Adrift, the
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Monitoring the forest environment based on the IoT technology
This September, Dr. Behnaz MoradiGhiasabadi starts her one-year visiting scholarship at York and EUC work-study student, Xinyu Mei, interviews her on her plans for engagement and research at the Faculty. Behnaz MoradiGhiasabadi Q. Why did you decide to pursue a visiting scholarship at York University? A. First of all, let
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Climate justice and participatory research: Building climate-resilient commons
Patricia "Ellie" Perkins Patricia Perkins has edited a new book titled Climate justice and participatory research: Building climate-resilient commons (University of Calgary Press, 2023). The book offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice action by describing the work of activist scholars in the Majority World whose research is contributing to livelihood commons and
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Jakarta: A city of a thousand dimensions
Abidin Kusno has authored a new book titled Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions (National University of Singapore Press, 2023). A megacity of 30 million under threat from rising sea levels and temperatures, Jakarta and its resilient residents improvise and thrive. The book teases out some of the dimensions that have
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