2023 News
October 20, 2023
Join GenUrb and the Delhi City Research Team on October 31, 2023 at York University for a talk on citywriting. Anindita Datta (S.S.V. College, Hapur) and […]
September 19, 2023
Shanghai CRT researcher Penn Tsz Ip’s new paper, published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, draws from fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 and explores the […]
June 21, 2023
On June 8, 2023, Dr. Penn Ip (Shanghai CRT) moderated a HEResearch session on eco-feminism, presented by Professor Eva Wah Man. Dr. Wah Man is the […]
June 9, 2023
The HEResearch Lecture Series, held in collaboration with the Shanghai CRT, unpacked the precarity of cultural work in the U.K. on May 26, 2023. Professor Hye-Kyung […]
May 31, 2023
The Shanghai City Research Team, in collaboration with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, hosted a hybrid session presented by Dr. Fran Martin, on class and gender […]
April 21, 2023
GenUrb Principal Investigator, Linda Peake, has been recognized with the President’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) as part of the 2023 York University Research Awards Celebration. The […]
April 3, 2023
Join Red Thread for “Who Feels It Knows It”, a panel discussion on grassroots women’s activism on oil extraction, on April 19, 2023. This talk will […]
March 29, 2023
The Shanghai City Research Team, in collaboration with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will host a lecture on April 3rd, 2023 with Dr. Deepshikha Batheja, on […]
March 21, 2023
Anindita Datta, lead researcher of GenUrb’s Delhi city research team, has been awarded the 2023 Jan Monk Service Award by the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group (FGSG) […]
January 22, 2023
Dr. Linda Peake, Principal Investigator of Urbanization, gender and the Global South, has been celebrated with a 2023 AAG Lifetime Achievement Honor by the American Association […]
2022 News
September 15, 2022
GenUrb P.I., Professor Linda Peake, has been elected as a 2022 Royal Canadian Society Fellow. She was recognized for her work on anti-racism and theorizing about […]
August 9, 2022
The GenUrb network recently published an article based on the intersections of space, mobility and social reproduction during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on research conducted across […]
July 19, 2022
Last month, Penn Ip and other members of the Shanghai research team spoke about their research on the Chinese podcast Badass Women. Listen to the interview […]
June 29, 2022
Also available as a PDF. The Post-doc position is funded through the SSHRC Partnership Project Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb) […]
May 5, 2022
Linda Peake, Principal Investigator for GenUrb, was recently recognized for a York University Dean’s Research Excellence Award, under the Environmental and Urban Change Faculty. The award […]
April 6, 2022
Dr. Penn Ip (Shanghai CRT) recently published an article on the pandemic and Shanghai’s Workers’ New Villages in Sixth Tone. This article highlights the Shanghai CRT’s […]
March 10, 2022
Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip (Shanghai CRT), Dr. Zhang Yu and Dr. Liu Xi co-authored The Ordinary Women: Qualitative Research on Workers’ New Villages in Shanghai […]
March 9, 2022
Click here to view the following as PDF. Purpose: The Research Associate position is funded through the SSHRC Partnership Project Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: […]
March 2, 2022
Dr. Araby Smyth, a Post-Doctoral Visitor with GenUrb, recently received an honourable mention for Best Dissertation under the 2022 AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group Student Awards. […]
February 19, 2022
A team from GenUrb, led by PI.I Linda Peake and Dr. Aninditta Datta, will present on GenUrb’s knowledge production methods at the virtual 2022 AAG Annual […]
February 19, 2022
A team from GenUrb, led by P.I. Linda Peake, will present on feminist comparative urban research at the virtual 2022 AAG Annual Meeting, on 28th February, […]
February 19, 2022
Dr. Nasya Razavi (Cochabamba CRT) explores research conducted by GenUrb concerning the “the impact of Covid-19 on gendered and racialized experiences of everyday urbanisms” at an […]
2021 News
December 15, 2021
GenUrb’s Principal Investigator, Linda Peake, was among three Canadian geographers awarded an American Association of Geographers (AAG) Diversity and Inclusion award. Given to geographers “who have […]
November 25, 2021
The CITY Insitutue and GenUrb will hold a webinar titled “Building digital technologies for comparison: Ethnographic reflections from transnational feminist urban research” on 6th December, 2021. […]
October 4, 2021
Title: Affective geographies of care in the neoliberal city Abstract Urban spaces around the world have been crucial sites for unfolding processes of neoliberalization (Theodore 2020). […]
September 30, 2021
COVID-19, Mental Health and Lessons from the Pandemic Isolation, financial loss, debt, bereavement, uncertainty, lack of control, anxiety, stress. These are some of the emotions and […]
September 10, 2021
We, the GenUrb network, stand in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan. For decades, international actors have enabled the systematic plundering of Afghanistan, violence against its […]
August 31, 2021
Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth and darren patrick have co-edited a new book published by Wiley, with Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz (Brock University) and Rajyashree N. Reddy (University […]
August 30, 2021
GenUrb’s Cochabamba City Research Team led by Dr. Nasya Razavi has launched its latest knowledge transfer initiative relatos en voz alta. Conducting research on Covid-19 in Cochabamba, […]
July 27, 2021
The Delhi CRT, in collaboration with SSV College, Hapur (Department of Geography, and Research and Development Committee) will host an online research workshop on July 28, […]
June 20, 2021
The Dellhi CRT, together with the Institute of Eminence at the University of Delhi and the SSV College, Hapur, held an online research workshop titled Conducting […]
May 25, 2021
Dr. Nasya Razavi, GenUrb’s post-doctoral researcher, will teach Urbanization, Gender and the Global South (SOSC 4606) during York University’s S2 term. Running between 28th June and […]
April 27, 2021
Elsa Koleth and Cristina Temenos co-authored “Let them sing!” The paradoxes of gender mainstreaming in urban policy and urban scholarship, published in Urban Geography in March. […]
April 20, 2021
Click here for PDF. The GenUrb project is looking for a Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) to join our SSHRC funded project, Urbanization, Gender, and the Global south: […]
April 6, 2021
Catch members of our City Research Teams and academic collaborations at the American Association of Geographer’s Annual Meeting. Presenting under the theme “Geographers and COVID-19: Setting […]
March 25, 2021
PDF version available here and below text. The SSHRC Partnership Project, Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: a transformative knowledge network (GenUrb), calls for applicants for […]
March 5, 2021
The University of Delhi, GenUrb’s Delhi CRT and Breakthrough are hosting a webinar on 8th March, 2021 in commemoration of International Women’s Day. This event will […]
January 18, 2021
Dr. Anindita Datta, Delhi CRT team lead and Dr. Swagata Basu, Delhi CRT researcher, have secured additional funding for the team. This will go towards investigating […]
2020 News
December 11, 2020
Dr. Nasya Razavi (York University) and Sonia Pardo Burgoa (CETM – Centro de estudios y trabajo de la mujer) from the Cochabamba CRT led the Mandala […]
November 30, 2020
GenUrb’s post-doctoral researcher Dr. Nasya Razavi (link to bio) has been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative […]
November 25, 2020
Dr. Swagata Basu, researcher with the Delhi CRT, will speak on the role of Mahila Panchayats in expanding legal spaces in low-income communities in Delhi on […]
August 10, 2020
Dr. Nasya Razavi’s – GenUrb’s Post-doctoral Visitor and Cochabamba CRT’s lead researcher – entry on SDGs 5 and 11, titled “Women in Cities: The Nexus Between […]
June 23, 2020
From the Canadian Association of Geographers (PDF available here): Linda Peake has been at the forefront of research in feminist geography for three decades. She has […]
June 9, 2020
The Lens In Bloom exhibition is now available online! Click here to explore the photographic stories from the Shanghai City Research Team.
March 5, 2020
Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip, from GenUrb’s Shanghai CRT, and Linda Peake – the Director of the City Institute, a faculty member in the Department of […]
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