Updated: Sun, 10/06/2024 - 10:30

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Axis “Mobility, urban planning, and environment”

Julia Freeman

Associate member

Affiliation

Lecturer, Bieler School of Environment (McGill University)

Research interests

Sustainable urban development; risk perception and technoscientific controversies; biotechnology policy and governance; social dimensions of agriculture; environmental debates, anthropology, and human-plant interactions

 

Contact information


3534, University St.
Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3A 2A7
Phone: (514) 398-6997

julia.freeman [at] mcgill.ca (> Email)

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Ongoing project


  • "Montreal’s Urban Sustainability Experience" (Lead, 2013-Present)

 

Selected publications


Freeman, Julia and Mariève Isabel. “Favoriser les rapprochements grâce à l'éducation relative à l'environnement,” Vivre ensemble à Montréal : épreuves et convivialités, Annick Germain, Valérie Amiraux and Julie-Anne Boudreau (eds.), Montréal, Atelier 10, 2017, p. 143-147.

Freeman, Julia. “How do 'Imagined Farmers' negotiate actual risks? Biosafety trade-offs in Bt Cotton Production in Andhra Pradesh, India,” Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 19, n° 8-13, 2012, p. 162-173.

Freeman, Julia, Terre Satterfield and Milind Kandlikar. “Agricultural Biotechnology and Regulatory Innovation in India,” Science and Public Policy, vol. 38, n° 4, 2011, p. 319-331.

Lock, Margaret, Julia Freeman, Gillian Chilibeck, Briony Beveridge and Miriam Padolsky. “Susceptibility Genes and the Question of Embodied Identity,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 21, n° 3, 2007, p. 256-276.

Lock, Margaret, Julia Freeman, Rosemary Sharples and Stephanie Lloyd. “When It Runs in the Family: Putting Susceptibility Genes in Perspective,” Public Understanding of Science, n° 15, 2006, p. 277-300.

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