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Redefining the Canadian housing paradigm - Part II
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description The intersection of climate change and housing crisis in Canada forms a pressing challenge, as extreme weather events become more frequent. Recent...
Seeds of the future: Climate justice, racial justice, and Indigenous resurgence
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, but it cannot be separated from issues of racial justice and Indigenous futures. In this Big Thinking lecture, discover the importance of Indigenous...
Reckoning and re-imagining climate anxiety – love like there’s no tomorrow
by Erika Dilling, Global Health and the Environment Honours Major, 3rd year at York University “When I think about the climate, I feel…” One Resilient Earth founder and director, Laureline Simon, prompted the virtual group of scholars and climate...
From the Jheri curl to TikTok: Canada and the global business of Black beauty
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description Every day we are bombarded by words and images telling us what we should find beautiful, and what we should aspire to look like...
Who cares for the caregivers?
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description Who cares for the caregivers? is a question too important to ignore especially after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed how our society...
Petrocultures: Reflections on 10 years of research and advocacy for a world in crisis
Madly off in all directions: Canadian cities and the prospects for a just and sustainable transition
On the final day of Congress 2022, the Environmental Studies Association welcomed Noel Keough to talk about how Canadian cities can become more just and sustainable. And it involves, Keough said, a revolutionary change in thinking. It “will require a...
“But, where are you really from?”
In a keynote address to the Black Caucus of the Canadian Sociological Association, Dr. Debra Thompson (Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, McGill University) explored the...
Petrocultures: Reflections on 10 years of research and advocacy for a world in crisis
In this Big Thinking session, Dr. Imre Szeman and Dr. Sheena Wilson, co-founders of the Petrocultures Research Group, discussed the concept of the “petroculture,” and how our understanding of it could help us transition to a decarbonized and more...