(Im)migrants undergo significant transitions when settling in Canada and especially when they are searching for housing. The main aim of this session is to examine the housing experiences of (im)migrants (including permanent residents, refugees, temporary migrants, and international students) from an intersectional perspective with a particular interest in the role of class and visible minority identity. Specifically, we are interested in...

Please join us to present and discuss research on tourism, conservation, and/or recreation in North America. During the session, we’ll connect ideas, concepts, and lessons within papers, and consider implications across them.  We’ll contemplate and contribute to ongoing conversations about possible tourism, recreation, and conservation “resets” as we emerge from the COVID-19 era. 1. Graci, Rasmussen, ...

Session organizers:Dr. Galina Scolnic, University of Windsor, OntarioDr. Hulya Arik, University of TorontoThis panel consists of papers on Muslims/Islam in lived everyday contexts and cultural realms. We aim to expand the academic literature on geographies of Islam and Muslims in areas such as daily affective encounters, cultural and creative production, spatial configurations of I...

• La théorie action-réseau: une grille d'analyse pour l'évolution d'un anthroposystème territorial
• Navigating a Path: Advocacy Strategies of a Migratory Bird NGO
• Digital Conservation Practices and Perspectives in the Anthropocene
• Identifying current and future priority coastal habitats for protection in Atlantic Canada

(Im)migrants undergo significant transitions when settling in Canada and especially when they are searching for housing. The main aim of this session is to examine the housing experiences of (im)migrants (including permanent residents, refugees, temporary migrants, and international students) from an intersectional perspective with a particular interest in the role of class and visible minority identity. Specifically, we are interested in...

4. Zhang and Meletis.  Integrated trails: Combining real and virtual tourism experiences to improve accessibility and experiences in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia (20 minutes including questions)Northern BC houses a “Game of Thrones”-worthy UNESCO Global Geopark with numerous in-situ dinosaur tracks and fossils, a paleontology-focused museum, and a dazzling array of trails and si...

SESSION 2: Everyday and cultural geographies of Islam/Muslims: Queering Affect1. Arabs Queering Toronto: Queer Arab Newcomers Claiming and Queering Spaces in their new homeSaif Malhas, PhD Candidate, Geography Department, University of Waterloo                                    &nbs...

• Governing and financing public goods for conservation and enjoyment
• Territories of life at the land-sea interface: recovering land-sea connections in the context of area-based conservation
• Représentations sociales de la biodiversité et aménagement du territoire
• Changing Livelihoods and Conservation Incentives in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of an Indigenous Emberá Community in Panama

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Chair: Nick Revington, INRSChildism in Children’s Geographies: Can we have it both ways?    Ann Marie Murnaghan, York UniversityThe concept of childism has received varied treatment in the study children, childhood, and youth in the last 50 years. On the one hand, childism has referred to the anti-child opinions and behaviours of adults, influenced by the work of psychoanalyst and political scholar Elisabeth Young-Breuhl in her...

• Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach
• Environmental Impacts of Digital Agriculture Technologies: Perspectives from Canadian Oilseed and Grain Farmers
• Preliminary investigation of climate change impacts and adaptation in the food production sector in Southern Manitoba: challenges and opportunities

• Overlapping Landsat scene classifications and focal context identify boreal disturbance mapping uncertainty
• Modelling connectivity of boreal forest across Unama'ki (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) to inform conservation and restoration efforts
• Comparing process- and pattern-based measures of landscape fragmentation
• Vegetation Index Sensitivities and Structural Biases
• History in Flames: Preliminary Results of the First Fire Record Created at the Archaeological Site Of L’Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
• The Necessity of Fire to Preserve: A History of the Albany Pine Bush Pine Barren using Sedimentary Charcoal and Pollen

• (Re)Imagining Education in Place: Navigating (Non)Relationality and Teaching Responsibilities Under Settler-Colonial Conditions
• Youth and Climate Justice: Representations of Young People in Action for Sustainable Futures
• Do neighbourhoods influence the readiness for school among kindergarten children in Hamilton, Ontario? A fixed effects analysis
• A Quantitative Analysis of Visual Features in Neighbourhoods and Greenspaces and Early Childhood Development in Hamilton, Ontario

• “It’s something I have to do” – Placing Masculinities in Higher Education
• L’itinérance féminine à Montréal : entre violence et invisibilité — Résultats préliminaires
• Pluriverse with Shuar: the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Ecuadorian Amazon

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• The Feminist Political Geographies of Sexual & Reproductive Control & Justice in ‘Punjabi Canada’
• Do policies have gender? Experiences of Adolescent Girls and Women of Disaster-prone Areas during Disasters
• “For home and country”: Colonial social reproduction and the Alberta Women’s Institute, 1909-1930

• “It’s not a resource, it’s a way of life”: Salish Relational Ecologies and Territorialities
• Creative commitments: Place-based art as expression and catalyst for rural identities and sustainability
• Examination of the variables associated with traditional medicine use in the upper west region of Ghana

• L’agroforesterie et les modèles agricoles durables : Savoirs et ancestralitées Ibans
• Transformations territoriales et cohabitation dans les régions du Québec : entre Charlevoix et la Côte-Nord
• Production of artisanal salt in Chila de la Sal, Xicotlán and Zapotitlán Salinas: What kind of governance, has been built?

• Climate Migrants, and the Impact of COVID-19: An Analysis of Canadian Immigration Policy
• Conducting Effective Community Engagement with Newcomers across Canada: A Scoping Review
• Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial health and well-being of older adults in Uganda.
• The Dynamics of Stigma and Labelling of Immigrant Personal Support Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Windsor, Ontario

• Colonizing Crop Sovereignty through Neoliberal Prescriptions: A Study on the Maize Cultivation in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
• The Geography of the Yellowstone to Yukon’s Social Science Research Agenda
• Patterns of Rural Community Livelihood and Local Knowledge on Socio-ecological Production Landscapes (SEPLs) in the Agro-ecological Zones of the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam Plain, India
• Mobilizing Space to Realize the Transformative Potential of Work Integration Social Enterprises through a Politics of Scale and Scope
• Mapping and Mobilizing Assets for Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in UNESCO’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere

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• The EU’s rhetoric on climate mobility: Bridging the New Pact and the Green Deal
• The support networks of immigrants in Canada: a multilevel multinomial analysis of emotional and instrumental support among recent immigrants
• Climate change-(im)mobility nexus: Perspectives of voluntary non-migrants from three coastal communities in Ghana

• COVID-19 brought the water struggles in Ghana into our homes in Canada: collective emotions and WaSH struggles in distant locations during health emergencies
• Insights from Uganda and Ethiopia: Lessons learned by non-profit staff while caring for older adults amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
• Archives, care, and geography: archival research as care praxis

• Spatial Non-Stationarity Effects of Unhealthy Food Environments and Green Spaces for Type-2 Diabetes in Toronto
• Chronic disease, planetary social thought, and social epigenetics
• Can Social Networking Sites be Effective in Tracing Original Participants for Longitudinal Environmental Health Research?