Professor Marcus Boon, has authored a new book titled, The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice, which will be released Aug. 31. Published by Duke University Press, the book explores music as a material practice of vibration that emerges from a politics of vibration and which constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective […]
Department of Social Science Urban Studies Professors Douglas Young and the late Lisa Drummond were recognized by the International Planning History Society (IPHS) for their book Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective. The book was awarded the Third Book Prize, as the best anthology or edited work in planning history written […]
On July 1, Associate Professor Paul Lawrie began his term as Black inclusion advisor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). Lawrie will advise the LA&PS Office of the Dean on questions related to race and equity, anti-Black racism and Black inclusion as part of the Faculty’s continuing work to address anti-Black […]
Casey Mecija is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at LA&PS. Her research focuses on sounds made by and around Filipinx diaspora to theorize a “queer sound” that pervades diasporic sensibilities. Queer sound, according to her, challenges the abjection of the Filipinx body, to demonstrate how the sensorial and affective remainders of […]
A new study draws attention to insufficient clinical care and support for those who discontinue or seek to reverse prior gender-affirming interventions. Medical education, research and clinical guidelines are all available to support the initiation of gender-affirming care for transgender people, but a York University-led qualitative study has found these resources are sparse when patients […]
Five York University researchers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies received funding of $422,065 from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The funding was for the September 2021 Aid to Scholarly Journals competition. Scholarly Journals grants are meant to increase dissemination, discoverability and readership of original research results […]
The International Planning History Society (IPHS), dedicated to the enhancement of interdisciplinary studies in urban and regional planning history, has recognized Department of Sociology Urban Studies Professors Douglas Young and the late Lisa Drummond with an award for the book they edited together. The book titled, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), was […]
Researchers from York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies have received more than $3.1M in funding to pursue research initiatives under SSHRC Partnership Grants. “These partnership grants help to advance knowledge and understanding on important issues of social, economic and cultural significance,” said J.J. McMurtry, dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & […]
Researchers from York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have received $2 million in total funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The SSHRC Insight program supports research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. With a […]
York Professor in Sociology, Marcello Musto’s research focuses on mobilizing critical thinking and scholarly knowledge to combat growing economic and political crises of contemporary social life. His SSHRC-funded project ‘Alternative Socio- Economic Ideas’ aims to explore the contemporary relevance of social, economic and political alternatives to present-day capitalism. “There is a growing global consensus about […]