Land assembly, financialization and agriculture in Canada’s North

by Sarah Rotz Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on a hitherto neglected topic: The expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country’s north. Focusing on the intertwined processes of capitalist frontier-making, large-scale land assembly, and financialization, she engages with the questions of whether such processes reify settler colonial land

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Exploring interactions between humans and large carnivores

This spring, Dr. Sunetro Ghosal, visiting faculty at St Xavier’s Autonomous College, Mumbai and Norwegian University of Life Sciences, as well as editor of the inter-disciplinary journal Ladakh Studies and the periodical Stawa visited EUC for a two-week residency. This included an interdisciplinary workshop on animal agency as well as interactions with faculty and students focusing

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Examining the labour market transitions to Personal Support Worker roles among Filipina women

by Nikki Mary Pagaling The lowest rung of the Canadian healthcare workforce is occupied by nurse aides, also known as personal support workers (PSWS). They perform a range of direct care tasks associated with daily living, and are employed in various settings, including institutional facilities like long-term care, or in the private homes of their

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Just transition for carbon neutrality and climate resilience in Tibetan Plateau

This March, Dr. Wei Jiang from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences started her 6-month visiting fellowship at York. 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? The significance of my visit not

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Greenwashing the Ring of Fire: Indigenous jurisdiction and gaps in the EV battery supply chain

by Saima Desai and Isaac Thornley In 2022, when Canada designated the metals buried beneath vast, remote peat bogs in Treaty No. 9 territory in Northern Ontario as “critical minerals,” it sparked a mining frenzy. There are now over 31,000 mining claims in the Ring of Fire, with some companies in hot pursuit of nickel

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Barbara Rahder

Professor Emerita Former Dean Senior Scholar Credentials BSc (1974), Portland State University (Psychology)MSc (1977), University of TorontoPhD (1985), University of Toronto Research Keywords Feminist community planning, urban and environmental justice, equitable access to urban space & services, planning theory, history and pedagogy.  Contact Information rahder@yorku.ca  https://barbararahder.wordpress.com/ Research Interests Since I retired in 2016, I’ve begun

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Investigating the unconscious in the politics of development

Ilan Kapoor has a new co-authored book on Rethinking Development Politics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) with Gavin Fridell, Professor of Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, reassessing the politics of development psychoanalytically and investigating its unconscious. EUC work-study student Xinyu Mei interviews him on the importance of the book and its contributions to the

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Minding Sanctuary: Potential for multispecies justice through care-full wildlife tourism

by Siobhan Speiran, Ph.D. As a wild animal geographer and welfare scholar, I am thrilled to find an academic home amongst the vibrant EUC community as a postdoctoral visitor. I continue collaborating with Professor Alice Hovorka (my Ph.D. supervisor) and The Lives of Animals Research Group. I locate my research as scholarship emerging in response

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The passing of Professor Emeritus Robert Murdie (May 8, 1939 - March 11, 2024)

The EUC community mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Robert (Bob) Murdie.  Bob spent his almost his entire career with the Department of Geography at York, and was a leading figure in Canadian urban and social geography, focusing especially on housing and immigration studies. He was also a dedicated teacher and graduate supervisor, and a

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Telling the stories of climate, farm distress, inequality and justice

From March 4-8 renowned journalist and author P Sainath visited York for a week as a scholar-in-residence. He delivered two separate seminars about climate, farm distress, inequality and justice in rural India and discussed his latest book on the foot soldiers of Indian freedom. Both talks were co-organized by EUC and the York Centre for

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