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My courses support students to develop the knowledge, skills, confidence, and capacities to engage fundamental questions in ways that connect transversally across academic disciplines, and that will help them to shape their career aspirations and prepare them for future pursuits. Just as my scholarly research and journalism focus on relational encounter through feminist, decolonial and anti-racist approaches to public politics, urban space and difference, my teaching practice also presents such opportunities. I work to foster their curiosity, capabilities and capacities for creative and critical engagement with their own learning, with the course materials, and with the world. Students in my courses have the opportunity to engage conceptually and empirically with the world and course materials through creative assignments that engage them as scholars, writers and media producers: Alongside scholarly writing, students in my courses also produce Op-Eds, film reviews, walking tours, collaborative story maps, short documentary videos, podcasts, blog posts, activist campaigns and public art actions. https://www.melora.ca/new-page daily 0.75 2020-11-17 https://www.melora.ca/projects daily 0.75 2025-09-19 https://www.melora.ca/public-media daily 0.75 2023-01-31 https://www.melora.ca/new-page-4 daily 0.75 2020-11-28 https://www.melora.ca/current-research daily 0.75 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8f2cdba859cb4d5c546163/1617292773572-P4S0LL9790FWCTG5NXYC/PDLC2.jpg Current Research - Crisis Urbanism: Municipal Experiments, Interventions, and Innovations in response to “urban crises” of encampment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8f2cdba859cb4d5c546163/14445a18-4738-499f-9afb-c3d75bf23c38/SoCScollective_Fig+3_V1.jpeg Current Research - (counter) mapping care: Weaving Drug Users’ Spaces of Care and Sociality in Vancouver and Paris (SoCS Collective) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8f2cdba859cb4d5c546163/1604931170719-14FHJC5OVW67T0WK8I0M/paris-canal-bridge-tent.jpg Current Research - Poverty Olympics: Strategies of Banishment, Liberation struggles during “mega-events” in Paris and Vancouver https://www.melora.ca/phd-research daily 0.75 2023-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8f2cdba859cb4d5c546163/6d9916a1-f46a-49c1-8248-4da9453c203b/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_mini_48f2.jpg Doctoral Research - Welcome to the Bubble? 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