Our friends at the the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto invitesparticipants to an international symposium that will address forms of resistance within and against platform labour. An emerging wave of struggles in sectors such as logistics, food delivery, journalism, and other platform-based sites of labour has shown how workers resist…
TRU is excited to share EDGI’s new report on environmental justice, toxics, and Trump: Pursuing a Toxic Agenda: Environmental Injustice in the Early Trump Administration. It shows how Trump administration actions on pipelines, pesticides, and chemicals is increasing environmental violence, especially for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and low-income commun ities, as well as farm workers. It also…
The TRU is excited to announce that it is joining the shared space of the Semaphore Research Cluster on the 7th floor of Robarts. The TRU’s physical lab space will have a shared work table, 4 carrels for graduate students, white boards, and an office. We are grateful to the generosity of Semaphore in making…
TRU members Matt Price and Natasha Myers discussing practices for contesting attacks on public access to environment and climate government both in the U.S. and in Canada. Here them discuss their work in the Environmental Data and Government Initiative and the Write2Know Project.
The TRU is proud to be part of the editorial collective announcing the First Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Catalyst is a juried online journal that expands the feminist and critical intellectual legacies of science and technology studies into theory-intensive research, critique, and practice, supporting intersectional and transnational scholarship and fostering accessibility and experimentation…
The TRU supports the Write2Know project, which is a letter-writing campaign that mobilizes the public to pose pressing questions to Canadian government scientists and ministers about the health of our bodies, communities, and environments
