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Department of Geography

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This collection consists of scholarship and publications by faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Department of Geography (1963-2020). As of 1 September 2020, new material from faculty will be deposited in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC).

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    DATA: PALEO-ECOTOXICOLOGY OF YELLOWKNIFE (NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA) LAKES IMPACTED BY HISTORIC GOLD MINING ACTIVITIES
    (2020-09) Persaud, Ajay; Korosi, Jennifer
    Raw data to accompany Persaud (2020), MSc thesis, which explores the ecological impacts of legacy arsenic contamination on Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) from historic gold mining in Yellowknife lakes (Northwest Territories, Canada) using a paleo-ecotoxicological approach. Cladocera subfossils preserved in the modern and pre-1850 lake sediments of 23 lakes in the region were examined, as well as the Daphnia resting egg bank of Pocket Lake, a highly contaminated lake in which striking ecological changes were previously recorded.
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    DATASET: A paleolimnological approach for interpreting Aquatic Effects Monitoring at the Diavik Diamond Mine (Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, Canada)
    (2020) Korosi, Jennifer; Thienpont, Joshua; Eickmeyer, David; Kimpe, Linda; Blais, Jules
    A paleolimnological assessment of Lac de Gras (Northwest Territories, Canada) showed pronounced aquatic ecological and biogeochemical changes occurring since at least ~1950, well before diamond mining operations began in 2000. Three sediment cores were collected from the eastern end of Lac de Gras, near to the Diavik Diamond Mine, dated using 210Pb radioisotopes, and analyzed for metals, organic carbon, nitrogen stable isotopes, and diatoms.
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    Evaluating life maps as a versatile method for lifecourse geographies
    (Area, 2011) Worth, Nancy
    This article discusses the life-mapping method developed for a research project exploring transitions to adulthood with visually impaired young people. After situating life maps as a kind of participatory diagram, the article explains the design and implementation of the life maps, and young people’s response to the method. The second half of the article argues for the value of the life map technique to lifecourse geographies in two ways: practically, supporting a narrative interview and as a graphic organiser of young people’s stories; and empirically, as a way to answer specific research questions about temporality that are more suited to a graphic method.
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    Visual Impairment in the City: Young People’s Social Strategies for Independent Mobility
    (Urban Studies, 2013) Worth, Nancy
    This article examines the mobility strategies that visually impaired (VI) young people employ as they negotiate their daily lives in the city. In contrast to research which foregrounds difficulties navigating the built environment, the article provides new insights into how VI young people engage with the city as a social space, arguing that VI young people’s goal of achieving ‘unremarkable’ mobility is constrained by an ableist society that constantly marks them out, frustrating goals of independent mobility which are important to young people’s transitions to adulthood. Drawing on young people’s narratives, three mobility strategies of young people are examined: concealing VI with friends, performing VI with white canes and travelling with guide dogs. Each is evaluated for its potential to help VI young people achieve identities as ‘competent spatial actors'.
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    Feeling Precarious: Millennial Women and Work
    (Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, 2015) Worth, Nancy
    In Precarious Life (2004), Judith Butler writes about how a shared sense of fear and vulnerability opens the possibility of recognizing interdependency. This is a wider understanding of precarity than is often present in human geography – recognizing the consequences and possibilities of feeling precarious. Focusing on work and the workplace, I examine the working life stories of millennial women in Canada, a labour market where unemployment and underemployment are common experiences for young workers. Using work narratives of insecurity, I argue that one potential consequence of understanding precariousness is the recognition of our social selves, using millennial women’s stories of mutual reliance and connection with parents, partners and friends to contrast assumptions of the individualizing, neoliberal, Gen Y worker. I use a feminist understanding of agency and autonomy to argue that young women’s stories about work are anything but individual experiences of flexibility or precarity – instead, I explain how relationships play a critical role in worker agency and whether work feels flexible or precarious. Overall I consider what a feminist theorizing of interdependence and precariousness offers geography, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity and relationality.