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Jeremy Schmidt, 2009 Scholar and Assistant Professor of Geography at Durham University, has published a new article on the moral consequences of humanity's impacts on the planet.

Engaging a wide array of leading theories about how to make sense of humanity's bewildering changes and how the Earth system functions, Dr. Schmidt argues that it is imperative to consider the political and economic conditions that beset contemporary practices of planetary stewardship and their growing influence on new approaches to sustainable development.

The article [is freely available here,](https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12308) and as a [permanent read-only file here](https://rdcu.be/bw0VI).

2016 Scholar Marie-Eve Desroches recently published an article in the journal Éthique Publique.
The article on intersectionality and the ethics of care addresses housing interventions for vulnerable populations in terms of providing effective means of addressing health inequalities.
Marie-Eve Desroches is a PhD student in Urban Studies at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS).

The April 2019 issue of the American Journal of Public Health features an editorial co-authored by Milad Parpouchi, 2017 Scholar, and Julian M. Somers. The editorial addresses the lack of food security among residents in permanent supportive housing, arguing that long-term research is needed on this issue.
Titled “Beyond Housing for Homeless People, It Is Crucial to Remediate Food Insecurity”, the editorial is available here (access limited to subscribers of the journal).

In The Walrus, 2016 Scholar Jesse Thistle shares his touching account of the valuable teachings he learned from experiencing homelessness and spending cold nights forced to sleep in his friend’s car in 1997. He tells of how a Métis-Cree Elder helped him change his perspective on those difficult days.
You can listen to Thistle’s talk or read it here.

Québec Science magazine recently featured the work and pursuits of our 2018 Scholar Marie-Soleil L'Allier, a doctoral candidate at UQAM and co-founder of the LOCO zero-waste food store chain, which is the first of its kind in Quebec.
The article (in French) is available here.

Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny, 2017 Foundation Scholar, co-authored an article on Canadian aquaculture regulation, which was published in Ottawa Law Review.
It lays out key issues posed by industrialized aquaculture and argues that moving the “production” of seafood from marine fisheries to aquaculture merely shifts the source of damage done to the environment.
The article is available in open access here.

2006 Fellow Jocelyn Létourneau is one of the contributors to Teaching and Learning the Difficult Past: Comparative Perspectives (also listed under the title History and Social Studies Education in a Context of Intolerance: Imagined Communities and Collective Memory, Routledge, 2019).
The chapter by Létourneau is entitled “ ‘We’ve been screwed’: Quebecers and their past”, and discusses Quebecers' relationship with their own past, and how to teach young people about the history of their province.

Dawn Lavell Harvard, 2003 Foundation Scholar, contributed to a report which was recently published by Journalists for Human Rights (JHR): Emerging Voices: A Dual Examination into Access to Post-Secondary Education for Indigenous Youth in Ontario.

The report examines the pathways of opportunity and the barriers facing Indigenous students interested in studying journalism or media at a post-secondary level, and what journalism and media programs are doing to develop and implement curriculum on coverage of Indigenous stories (as was recommended in Call to Action #86 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada).

Read the report here.

Our congratulations to Dawn Lavell Harvard for also receiving the 2018 Spirit of Barbra Schlifer Award, in recognition of her struggle against the violence experienced by Indigenous women.

In the opinion piece "Complicit scholarship", published on the digital forum The Immanent Frame, Professor Ayesha S. Chaudhry, 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow, tackles head-on social inequalities and the issue of diversity in the discipline of religious studies. Denouncing the supremacy of men and whites among researchers in this field, she identifies a series of questions that must be considered by any movement toward structural change.
Read the article here.

2012 Scholar Nathan Andrews, now Assistant Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, has just published a book at Palgrave Macmillan entitled Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana.
This book offers a critical examination of the practice and meanings of corporate social responsibility by drawing on extensive fieldwork material collected in Ghanaian communities located around mining project sites.
More details on this publication are available here.