P O D C A S T S Voices from the Food Frontline Series Trailer Our first episodes are in post-production with Feeding City lab’s podcast team. Learn more at: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/food-frontline-voices/ … Read More
By Christa Yeung Private strip malls and their parking lots fulfill critical functions as places for informal gathering and culturally specific goods and services for many racialized and immigrant communities in Toronto’s inner-suburbs. Given this reality, what possibilities are unlocked when we reimagine privately-owned parking lots as extensions of the public realm and as spaces… Read More
By Siera Vercillo and Bruce Frayne. This study points to potential gaps in policies & interventions targeting young people in African agriculture by investigating their diverse mobilities, aspirations & engagements in northern Ghana. It challenges the prevalent notion of African farmers’ movements from rural to urban areas, and out of farming altogether, as we found… Read More
By: Noha Fikry, These reflections are based on a one-year of ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted between 2017-2018 on four urban rooftops in Cairo and Alexandria, the two largest cities in Egypt. On these rooftops, women rear chickens, goats, rabbits, turkeys, geese, and sheep to feed their families and gift their in-laws. Women primarily use… Read More