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Tammara originally hails from West Java, Indonesia. She holds a PhD in Planning (2018) from the University of Toronto and is the Research Director and Co-Founder of the Food Systems Lab. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University where she conducts research on issues pertaining to food system planning, community-based food research, youth and food literacy, social innovation and waste management and the circular economy. Prior to SFU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, and the Food Equity Coordinator at New College (University of Toronto). Soma is actively involved in food justice work. She was one of the founding members of the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, and has worked with FoodShare Toronto, and Sustain Ontario.Soma's research projects are funded by the SSHRC New Frontiers, SSHRC Trans-Atlantic Platform, SSHRC Insight, SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant, and Weston Foundation Seeding Food Innovation Grant. She co-led a tri-country team (U.S, Mexico and Canada) on a Commission for Environmental Cooperation project to develop the Food Matters: Action Kit for youth engagement in food loss and food waste reduction. She is also co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food Waste. Soma was selected and served as a committee member of the US National Academies of Science "A Systems Approach to Reducing Consumer Food Waste" and contributed to the publication of the consensus study A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level. She is a board member of the Canadian Association of Food Studies. Tammara is currently a Researcher-in-Residence with SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi).
Author: Soma, Tammara, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Pinillos, Fiorella, Author: Roach, Melissa, Author: Feng, Kathy, Author: Smith, Paige, Author: Bardi, Alyha
Date created: 2021-06-22
Julietta is the author of three books: No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018), and her forthcoming work of epistolary nonfiction, The Breaks (Coffee House Press and Daunt Books Originals, 2021). She is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Richmond, where she teaches courses on decolonial literature, the ecological humanities, and queer studies. Her academic work has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, among others. She is the recent recipient of a 2019-2020 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, which she held at Columbia University's Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality.Her first work of creative nonfiction, No Archive Will Restore You, was featured in venues such as The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour, Lambda Literary, and The Advocate, and was selected as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her new book, The Breaks, takes the form of a letter to her young daughter about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world. It will be released in September, 2021.Resources:— Julietta's website: www.juliettasingh.com/ — Unthinking Mastery: www.dukeupress.edu/unthinking-mastery — No Archive Will Restore You: punctumbooks.com/titles/no-archiv…ill-restore-you/ — The Breaks: chbooks.com/Books/T/The-Breaks
Author: Julietta Singh, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-10-13
Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is Visiting Faculty at the Digital Democracy Institute, School of Communication, SFU.Alberto's current research is divided into three main strands: a theoretical inquiry into contemporary authoritarian trends and their dis/analogies with their historical predecessors, culminating in the forthcoming book Late Fascism (Verso, 2021); the study of tragedy as a framework through which to understand political action and its discontents, from decolonisation to environmentalism; and the development of 'real abstraction' as a heuristic for the analysis contemporary capitalism, notably in its nexus with processes of racialisation. As the series editor of The Italian List for Calcutta-based publisher Seagull books, Alberto's research is also concerned with the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism and critical theory. Resources— Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought: https://cpct.uk/about/— Seagull Books: https://www.seagullbooks.org/our-translators/t/alberto-toscano/— Digital Democracies Institute: https://digitaldemocracies.org/— The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403997807— Fanaticism: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2475-fanaticism— Cartographies of the Absolute: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute— Wolfen movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46RneepoxQ— Pli journal: https://plijournal.com/
Author: Alberto Toscano, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-15
Javier Campos earned his Architecture Degree from the University of British Columbia after having completed an undergraduate degree in Art History. Previously he was at Acton Ostry Architects where, as lead designer, his projects were widely published and garnered numerous awards — including Canadian Architect and Lieutenant Governor Medals in Architecture. His work adopted a green agenda early and has included off the grid projects since 2001. He became LEED certified in 2004. Javier is also involved in Public Art and has won several competitions with Artist Elspeth Pratt in Vancouver. Javier served on the board of the Contemporary Art Gallery for six years and as well being the current president of the Heritage Vancouver Society, where he established an award winning outreach series on issues around Heritage.Resources: — Heritage Vancouver: http://heritagevancouver.org/— Shaping Vancouver series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClA0Wn2xodnRMrdH3shZSwQ— Campos Studio: https://www.campos.studio/ — Sen̓áḵw: https://senakw.com/ — Heritage Action Plan: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/heritage-action-plan-emerging-directions-june-2017-open-house-information-displays.pdf
Author: Javier Campos, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-06
Paul Taylor is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto, and a lifelong anti-poverty activist. Growing up materially poor in Toronto, Paul has used his experience to fuel a career focused not just on helping others, but dismantling the beliefs and systems that lead to poverty and food insecurity, including colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchal structures.Each year, FoodShare provides a quarter million people with fresh produce, and fights for their right to have access to "good" food on their own terms, rather than charity on someone else's. Paul's experience includes Executive Director roles at Gordon Neighbourhood House and the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House. He has also chaired the British Columbia Poverty Reduction Coalition, served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and as Vice-Chair of Food Secure Canada.Resources: — Paul Taylor's website: https://www.paultaylorto.com/— FoodShare: https://foodshare.net/— Gordon Neighbourhood House: https://gordonhouse.org/— Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House: https://www.dtesnhouse.ca/— Nourish Scotland: https://www.nourishscotland.org/ — Global Solidarity Alliance: https://rightsnotcharity.org/ — WhyHunger: https://whyhunger.org/
Author: Paul Taylor, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-06-29
Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Beyond her academic work she works as an educator, labour organizer, and community activist. Her activism and academic work focus on the intersections of gender, labour, and race in late capitalism, as well as investigating Canadian petro-capitalism from a socialist feminist perspective. Resources: — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/— SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri.html— Progressive Economics Forum: https://www.progressive-economics.ca/— Centre for Future Work: https://www.futurework.org.au/
Author: Massie, Alicia, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-20
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