CONGRATS TO GRAHAM MCDOWELL ON COMPLETION OF HIS PHD DEGREE IN RES + NEW JOB!
EDGES member Graham McDowell has successfully completed his PhD degree from UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability. His PhD thesis was titled “Adaptation to glacio-hydrological change in high mountains“. Graham has accepted a position as Project Leader for the Canadian Mountain Assessment, a flagship initiative of the recently established Canadian Mountain Network. In this […]
NEW PUB: SENGUPTA “CONSERVING AND COMMERCIALISING FORESTS: TRIBAL WOMEN AND SUBJECTIVITY IN BAGAFA FOREST OF TRIPURA (NORTHEAST INDIA)”
EDGES alumna, Mayuri Sengupta, published an article titled, “Conserving and commercialising forests: tribal women and subjectivity in Bagafa forest of Tripura (Northeast India)” in Gender, Place & Culture. Abstract: Two perspectives on women’s relationships to forests are usually invoked in much of the mainstream policies and research on gender and forest management in India. First, forest-dwelling women, particularly […]
CONGRATS TO EDGES ALUMNA CYNTHIA MORINVILLE ON HER AAG AWARD!
Congratulations to EDGES alumna, Cynthia Morinville (now at the University of Toronto Department of Geography and Planning) for winning the 2020 Glenda Laws Student Paper Award. This award is administered by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Feminist Geographies Speciality Group. Cynthia’s paper is titled: “Women, Labour, and the Circulation of Value in Bholakpur’s Scrap Economy” in […]