Jane Yearwood

MA Student, (she/her)
jane.yearwood@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Economic Geography
  • Social & Political Geography

Areas of Interest

Commons and commoning Practices, urban cooperatives, economic alternatives, ontological restructuring, queer geographies, education.

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Neera Singh

Biography

Jane is a first year MA student researching actually-existing commons in Toronto, and the formation of more-than-capitalist subjectivity and relational ways of being in these spaces. She has much experience as an RA, having worked on two SSHRC-funded projects at the U of T during her undergraduate degree.

Publications 

Yearwood, Jane. (2021). Granting the Whanganui River Personhood Status: Limitations of the Te Awa Tupua Act. Landmarks: The Journal of Undergraduate Geography, 7(1), 14-23.

Member of the Editorial board for Landmarks: The Journal of Undergraduate Geography, Volume 7 (2021).

Education

University of Toronto, Victoria College - Bachelor of Arts with a major in Human Geography and minors in English, Education & Society, and French Studies.

Cohort

  • 2022-2023