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Marianne Couture-Cossette, who holds a master’s degree in geography from UQAM and is a doctoral student at Concordia University, and Laurie Guimond are the co-authors of the following article, which is based on Marianne’s master’s thesis. Couture-Cossette, M. et Guimond, L. (2026) Habiter l’absence, habiter l’infrastructure: Paysages temporels à l’aune de la route 138 en […]

cc by international 4.0 R. Krummeich (2026)

Laurie Guimond and Maude Normandin Bellefeuille contributed to the book: Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions: Concepts, Diagnosis, Dilemmas, edited by Jerzy Bański. They authored Chapter 19: “Ecologically Unequal North-South Exchanges in Waste Production and Management: An Action Research Project at the Radisson Landfill Site (Eeyou Istchee, James Bay, Quebec, Canada).” For more […]

The master’s thesis of Thierry Pardo, a student at the Chair, is now available in open access on Archipel UQAM. Pardo, Thierry (2025). « Écrire le territoire : dialogue entre géographie libertaire et littérature innu » Mémoire. Montréal (Québec, Canada), Université du Québec à Montréal, Maîtrise en géographie.

Caroline Dufresne and Étienne Gariépy-Girouard, student members of the Chair, published an article in the first edition of the journal Dynamiques territoriales, edited by Juan-Luis Klein and Étienne Boucher. Caroline Dufresne’s article is entitled « Biorégion et biorégionalisme : des outils pour repenser l’autonomie territoriale ? » and Étienne Gariépy-Girouard’s article focuses on « Dynamiques territoriales et géosystèmes fluviaux : […]

Master’s student Louis Boivin was recently interviewed on Radio-Canada. His thesis relates to attachment to Lac-Saint-Jean and highlights the importance of better understanding the affective dimensions of inhabited territories. To listen to the program.

Congratulations to Florent Amat, who won the prize for best presentation for Ma thèse en 180 secondes: Ecological community living in rural areas in France and Quebec: towards a bottom-up socio-environmental transformation? The prize was awarded on April 25 at the annual conference of UQAM’s Institut des sciences de l’environnement (ISE).

Caroline Dufresne, a member of the Canada Research Chair With Living Environments of the North, contributed to the new publication at the Presses de l’Université du Québec . “Vers une nouvelle ruralité : L’expérience des Ateliers des savoirs partagés” was edited by Juan-Luis Klein, Denis Bussières, Christine Champagne, Caroline Dufresne, Maude Léonard and Pierre-André Tremblay. […]

On Thursday March 27, Alain Deneault gave a conference on the theme of the territoriality of the bioregion at UQAM’s Geography Department. The event attracted a number of people and a rich exchange took place between the audience and the author and philosophy professor from the Université de Moncton. Bioregion and bioregionalism have recently resurfaced, […]

Florent Amat is doing a cotutelle PhD at the Institut des sciences de l’environnement (UQAM) and the Department of Geography (Université de Rouen Normandie). He recently published a peer-reviewed article in the journal L’espace politique, under the theme “Local geopolitics of rurality: citizens’ involvements and alternative dynamics” To read the article “Ecological community living and local […]