- Location
- Zoom | Health Sciences Building
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Student Event, U of T Community Event
- Format
- Hybrid
- Dates
- April 30, 2026 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Links
Presented by the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and the People’s Health Movement Canada …
Join the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and the People’s Health Movement Canada for our upcoming Critical Conversations seminar, Canadian Extractivism in Ecuador and Latin America: Political Economy/Ecology of Health Perspectives, Transnational Solidarity, and Resistance, featuring Dr. Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Dr. Erika Arteuga Cruz.
This talk will begin with a political economy/ecology analysis of the health impact of Canadian mining in Latin America, with a particular focus on Ecuador. We also examine the ways in which Canadian tax, judicial, corporate, and diplomatic policies allow – indeed encourage – Canadian mining companies to generate extensive health and environmental harms (with the Canadian public also complicit, if indirectly). We then turn to the role and reach of transnational activism and resistance in countering the impunity of Canadian extractivism and discuss Andean worldviews that build non-extractive, ecologically just futures.
