• Dynamic Collectivity: Artistic Direct Action, Economic Sustainability, and the Punchlock Printing Collective 

  Hayes, Ryan Ramin (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2014)

  Through a case study of the Toronto-based Punchclock Printing Collective, this paper considers how experiments with prefigurative politics and collective cultural production pose alternatives to hegemonic power structures, ...

• Public Participation in Planning as Urban Citizenship: Contrasting Two Conceptualizations of Citizenship in Toronto’s Ward 20 

  Potter, Gwen (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2013)

  In the past four decades public participation has become widespread in urban planning and more generally in urban governance because it is believed that outcomes that result from deliberation and dialogue are better and ...

• The Paradoxes of State-Led Transnationalism: Capturing Continuity, Change and Rupture in the Eritrean Transnational Social Field 

  Tecle, Samia (2012)

  Processes of conflict and domination have historically influenced and continue to influence patterns of mass migration; in some cases, over time shaping the formation of diasporas. These processes have contributed to a ...

• Some, for all, forever: A Case Study of Participation in Water Management in South Africa’s Umgeni River Catchment 

  Lorimer, Beth (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  South Africa is a water scarce country where freshwater resources are unevenly distributed in relation to the majority of its people. Integrated water resources management, which takes in all competing interests for water ...

• Evoking a site of memory: An Afrofuturist Sonic Walk that Maps Historic Toronto's Black Geographies 

  Turner, Camille (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  Drawing on the work of historians, geographers, writers and other Black Canadian Studies scholars I argue that Blackness has been systematically ‘disappeared’ from the Canadian nation. I explore various mechanisms through ...

• Social Enterprises and Alternative Agro-Ecological Food Networks: A Co-operative Business Model for Agro-Ecological Vegetable Seed Production 

  Dey, Aabir (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  Alternative agro-ecological food networks (AAFNs) are being advanced by farmers, civil society organizations, academics, and other concerned citizens, who understand the current agri-industrial food system to be ostracizing ...

• The Beaufort Sea Maritime Boundary Dispute: High Stakes for Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Resource Extraction in a Changing Climate 

  Pomerants, Daniel (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  This paper analyzes the Beaufort Sea maritime boundary dispute and the risk it poses to Canadian Arctic sovereignty and resource extraction in the North as the effects of climate change become more apparent. The confluence ...

• The Role of Tour Operators in Visitor Management Planning: The Case Study of Algonquin Provincial Park 

  King, Lauren (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  The first State of Ontario’s Protected Areas Report (2011) identified visitor impacts as one of the known threats to the maintenance or restoration of ecological integrity in Ontario’s provincial parks. Algonquin Provincial ...

• Alexandra Park: Dynamics of Redevelopment 

  Hatcher, Kirk (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  Mixed-income planning has become the common-sense approach to public housing redevelopment in Toronto. Based on the premise of physical design dictating behaviour, social mix theory hinges on the idea that diluting the ...

• Conditions of Possibility: Bio-power and governance in the quest for a supervised injection site in Toronto 

  Tannahill, Rebecca (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)

  Drawing on Michel Foucault’s bio-power lens, this paper argues that supervised injection sites are political and governmental spaces that have emerged from the harm reduction movement as an alternative to prohibitionist ...

• Active Citizenship Reviving and Extending Democratic Practices 

  Nayak, Navin Ajay (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)

  Contending that our current liberal understanding of politics is exclusive and unresponsive, this paper explores the possibilities for reviving and extending democratic practices through a renewed understanding of citizenship. ...

• Genome Presence: The Work of a Diagnostic/Iconic Image 

  Martin, Aryn E. (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)

  This paper is an exploration the work of a potent image: the human-instrumental-material work required to produce a karyotype, as well as the work done by the image, both in clinical settings, and as a public emblem of ...

• Re/Producing 'Normalcy': Bodies, Everyday Social Practices and Photography 

  Luciani, Teresa (Tracy) C. (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)

  As the white, female, able-body(ies) comes to the written and visual fore in mainstream academic, political, social and cultural circles in Euro-North-America, it is crucial at this particular historical moment to attend ...

• Spatial Practices: Architecture, Planning and Citizenship in Mexico City 

  Gomez-Palacio del Rio, Antonio Ignacio (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)

  This study questions the view that privileges planning professionals with the right and responsibility of building the city. Instead, it brings social movements, everyday practices and a cultural politics to the foreground ...

• Regional Policy and EU Accession in the Czech Republic 1997 - 1999 

  Evans, Hannah (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)

  This paper examines the formulation of regional policy and the creation of a Regional Development Plan in the Czech Republic during the period of 1997 - 1999. The regional policy and planning process occurred within the ...

• Landscapes of Environmental Injustice: The Environmental Justice Movement in Context 

  Chan, Emily S. (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)

  In this paper, the environmental justice movement is introduced through a study of its historical context, and the structures of environmental, economic and social disparities in North America. The principles of environmental ...

• The Bicycle and Urban Sustainability 

  Tomlinson, David (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)

  This paper presents a rationale for promoting bicycles for basic transportation, in the context of global efforts to achieve more sustainable urban development. The importance of urban transportation systems, and the ...

• Planning for Appropriate Recreation Activities In Mountain Environments: Mountain Biking in the Canadian Rocky Mountains 

  Mosedale, Jan (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)

  The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer spectacular settings and the necessary topographic features to be conducive to mountain biking. Calgary, one of the major population centres of the region, which has a proportion of ...

• Voices Telling: Stories Rising from a Place Called Wiikwedong/Kettle Point 

  Milliken, Barry (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)

  The primary purpose of this endeavour is to tell a story of the community called Wiiwkwedong, or Kettle Point. A main premise of the telling is that story -or narrative voice - emerges from the natural environment through ...

• Natural Systems and Alternative Urban Development 

  McClean, Marc (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)

  The preservation of the Oak Ridges Moraine has forced an unprecedented examination of the ramifications of traditional urban growth patterns on natural systems. In 2000 and 2001, the focus of the debate became the relatively ...

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