Please consider presenting a paper on the topic of “Environment and Health” as part of the 2010 Canadian Sociology Association annual conference . This will be held at Concordia University, Montreal, May 31st to June 4th 2010 inclusive. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to February 19 2010.
This session emphasizes how the varied interconnections between environmental, social and health issues may be approached from a sociological perspective, with the particular aim of understanding environmental health issues assituated within the local and/or global political economic context. We will consider both empirical and theoretical treatments of the sociological implications of the environment-health relationship. Examples of possible topics include: the sociology of risk and disease; the politics of environmental health, including the role of social movements, the analysis of the social determinants of health, social epidemiology and inequality and the social distribution of risk; environmental disaster research; contested diseases such as multiple chemical sensitivity, endocrine disruption, fibromyalgia; environmental justice, climate justice and case studies on specific environmental health issues as well as the spread of infectious diseases (e.g HIV/AIDS, Influenza A/H1N1, Tuberculosis etc).
Please contact Dr. Harris Ali for more information,
Harris Ali, B.Eng., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
hali@yorku.ca
Tel: (416) 736-2100, Ext.22608
Fax: (416) 736-5679
