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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/641939-confronting-a-
 new-determinism-in-environmental-health-research-a-geographerrs-cautionary
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - 7101 avenue du Parc\, 7101\, avenue du 
 Parc\, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3N 1X9
SUMMARY:Confronting a new determinism in environmental health research: A g
 eographer’s cautionary
DESCRIPTION:Public health has often been described as a 'social movement fo
 r health'\, a term used quite loosely and often at odds with more theoreti
 cally astute models of social change. Yet\, recent years have seen a proli
 feration of new citizen-led social movements – often working in and on c
 ities – that are coalescing efforts to demand a wholesale urban transfor
 mation based on principles of sustainability and health equity. While such
  efforts could provide a ripe opportunity for public health researchers to
  support\, we have mostly chosen to remain on the sidelines\, choosing ins
 tead to embrace an impoverished 'evidence based' model that remains thorou
 ghly proximal in its ambitions. In this presentation\, I will provide a sh
 ort genealogy of this chronic underachievement\, using hard lessons learne
 d by the discipline of Geography to point a finger toward a covert determi
 nism that infects the profession. Finally\, I will profile some recent res
 earch that attempts to bring new concepts into focus that better align res
 earch with citizen power and social-environmental change.
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\nJeffrey R. Masuda is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair i
 n Environmental Health Equity and directs a research centre of the same na
 me\, currently housed at Queen’s University\, where he is cross appointe
 d in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and Department of Geogra
 phy. An activist researcher who takes theories of human rights and social 
 justice seriously\, Prof. Masuda has a long history of conducting particip
 atory action research in partnership with community leaders\, often in soc
 ially and politically marginalized urban settings. Examples of his current
  work can be found at www.cehe.ca and www.revitalizingjapantown.ca.
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