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Genome Presence: The Work of a Diagnostic/Iconic Image
(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 ... -
Spatial Practices: Architecture, Planning and Citizenship in Mexico City
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Active Citizenship Reviving and Extending Democratic Practices
(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. ... -
Re/Producing 'Normalcy': Bodies, Everyday Social Practices and Photography
(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 ... -
Natural Systems and Alternative Urban Development
(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 ... -
Planning for Appropriate Recreation Activities In Mountain Environments: Mountain Biking in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
(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
(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 ... -
The Bicycle and Urban Sustainability
(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 ... -
Biodiversity Conservation in Agroecosystems: A Comparison of Surface-dwelling Beetle Diversity in Various Shade Coffee Production Systems in Costa Rica
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)Beetle diversity was determined in six coffee agroecosystems representing a spectrum of structural complexity including (in increasing order) a chemical free site without shade, Poró (Erythrina poeppigiana), Eucalyptus ... -
Ecohealth and Displacement: A Case Study of Resettlement and Return in Ethiopia
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)This Major Paper is based on field research conducted in the northern highlands of Ethiopia investigating the situation of farmers returned from resettlement in southwest Ethiopia under a government program that resettled ... -
Compromising the Environment?: The Spruce Budworm, Aerial Insecticide Spraying, and the Pulp and Paper Industry in New Brunswick
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)Continual growth of the New Brunswick's pulp and paper industry since the late 1920s eventually brought the industry into conflict with the eastern spruce budworm (Choristineura fumiferana). This paper explores the evolution ... -
The Unicorn's Bargain: The Gift and The Environment
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)"Gifting" or "gift exchange" is an economic practice carried out in cultures worldwide, from so called "archaic" times to the present day. Definitions vary: to some, gifting is a mirror image or a shadow of the current ... -
Unearthing Montreal's Municipal Water System: Amalgamating and Harmonizing Urban Water Services
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)In December 2000, the National Assembly of Quebec adopted numerous bills that would lead to a reconfiguration of the municipal territorial organization. The amalgamation process modifies long-standing patterns of urban ... -
Representing Science Representing Nature
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)This paper examines the recursive and highly productive dialectic between the constitutive effects of science as a social praxis and as the image of a very unique kind of social praxis. I argue that dominant images of ... -
Opportunities and Constraints of Co-Management: Cases of the Buccoo Reef Marine Park and the Speyside Reefs Marine Park, Tobago
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)In order to understand co-management, the concept must be examined from both the community and government perspectives since its essence is embedded in a framework of co-operation between these two entities. While a ... -
Deconstructing the Four Pillars of the Climate Change Debate: A Critical Review of the Scientific, Economic, Political, and Ethical Dimensions
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)Four major discourses within the climate change are identified and explored in this paper. First and foremost, there is the scientific discourse of climate change. The prevailing themes in this discourse are complexity, ... -
Animal Scents: Tracking the Betrayal of Animality Otherwise with/in Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Levinas
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)This book is a guide for tracking an animal in a text or in a jungle. It offers a non-dichotomous, non-totalizing, primordially ethical relation of self to animal. A relation where the self is not radically detached, ...