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2014-11-14
SSHRC Awarded PG 2015. Lead institution is the University of Victoria. UAlberta's Parkland Institute is a partner in the project. The intensifying development of Western Canada's fossil fuel resources has far-reaching implications for our economic and ecological wellbeing, the acceleration of...
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2012-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Black markets in wartime expose serious economic and social tensions; the choices faced in wartime are instructive for understanding contemporary issues in economic regulation. In France, wartime shortages and state controls accentuated stresses that reveal critical...
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2014-11-01
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: "Memory Economies" will be a two-day symposium, hosted by the University of Alberta's Departments of English & Film Studies and Women's & Gender Studies on September 4-5, 2015. It is designed to contribute new concepts and theorizations to the multidisciplinary field of...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis grant awarded 2020. The project explores prior research to learn about health-related climate change vulnerability, as assessed in terms of exposure (contact), sensitivity (characteristics that may increase risk), and adaptive capacity (ability to adjust) across...
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2020-01-07
SSHRC KSG awarded 2020: For this project, we will generate three scoping reviews to examine health-related exposure to extreme events like heat waves, wildfires, floods, drought, and air pollution; populations' sensitivity to these exposures; and the adaptive capacity of systems, institutions,...
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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Networks, Localities and Material Culture c. 1700s-2000s
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Whitelaw, Anne, Lemire, Beverly
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2014: This project will establish a new partnership among selected university and museum institutions in Canada and England. Our aim is to illuminate, in new ways, the global circulation of material culture from and through northern North America - and the ways in which this...
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2015-01-01
SSHRC Awarded Knowledge Synthesis grant 2015: The dominant form of energy of any given era shapes the characteristics and capacities of societies in an essential way; energy is a key aspect of the fabric of our social experience, and not just a neutral input that helps run the engines of our...
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2023-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: "Paper Lives, Post-Digital Connections" will explore the unlikely, and vibrant, connection of paper journals to digitally connected international communities devoted to journaling, particularly by members of Gen-Z, on the social media platforms they use the most:...