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Feminist geography is addressed and taken up (always differently) by scholars who compose and comprise it. The 2025 Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture was a tribute to difference and a celebration of transformation. Delivered in panel style, linked vignettes by eight feminist geographers from across colonial Canada on three prompts about feminism and geography formed the lecture. Firstly, authors reflected on “What institutional, academic and political pressures and barriers have feminist geographies navigated over time in Canada? What are the benefits and dangers of institutionalizing feminist geography as a sub-discipline?” Secondly, we considered, “How has feminist geography taken up questions of coloniality and race and how can it continue to evolve, while still centering care, intersectionality, and spatial justice in knowledge production and political engagement within and beyond the academy?” And, thirdly, we responded to, “What does geographic thought have to offer feminism and what constitutes hope in and for feminist geography across diverse times and spaces?” Each panellist individually addressed these questions, presented in this publication under separate titles/subsections which, framed with a brief introduction to the Lecture itself, reflect a broad-ranging contemplation about feminist geographies past, present, and future in colonial Canada and beyond.

Escalating wildfire frequency and intensity, driven by climate change and expanding wildland-urban interfaces, disproportionately place risk on populations with accessibility needs, including people with disabilities. This study examines accessibility integration into wildfire communication and evacuation strategies in British Columbia, where record-breaking wildfires highlight systemic gaps in inclusive emergency management. Through a mixed-methods approach—policy analysis of provincial legislation and municipal plans with semi-structured interviews involving emergency practitioners and disability advocates—this research evaluates British Columbia's wildfire governance using a justice-oriented framework (distributional, procedural, restorative justice). Findings reveal significant inequities: municipal emergency plans lack enforceable accessibility standards, communication strategies often exclude sensory and cognitive needs, and policies neglect formal consultation with disability communities. Operational challenges like fragmented evacuation logistics and reliance on informal community networks, exacerbate risks for marginalized groups. The study highlights the need for hybrid governance models pairing centralized supports with localized adaptability, enforceable accessibility standards, and proactive funding for inclusive infrastructure. Recommendations emphasize participatory co-design of policies with people with disabilities, culturally responsive communication, and restorative accountability mechanisms. By bridging policy-practice gaps, this research contributes actionable pathways to align British Columbia's wildfire management with equity, resilience, and justice in an era of climate-driven disasters.

The relationship between population density and COVID-19 transmission remains ambiguous, with conflicting findings challenging urban planning. This work addresses the issue through a multi-faceted review of 250 articles (2020–2024), categorizing studies by geographical scale, tracing thematic evolution across pre- and post-vaccine periods via keyword analysis, and synthesizing policy recommendations with a zero-shot classification model. The findings confirm the positive density-transmission link is robust only at local scales. The research focus evolved from broad pre-vaccine correlations to a post-vaccine emphasis on community vulnerability and the built environment, while types of policy recommendations also depended heavily on the scale. It is argued that the debate must shift from whether density is inherently risky to how to manage its context-specific challenges through scale-sensitive research and policy.

Women face gendered and intersectional disparities in caregiving duties, income, and wealth, and exposure to gender-based violence, and also disproportionately live in non-market housing. As such, they especially benefit from infrastructures of care. We examine to what extent these infrastructures are locally available to those living in non-market housing in three Canadian communities. We explore both the presence of non-market housing units and the socio-demographic characteristics of places in which this housing is located, and how these may be associated with resources in the urban environment that value, enable, and support caring. We find that most neighbourhoods with non-market rentals are located in places with moderate infrastructures of care, rather than being situated in care deserts or care oases, concepts we introduce in this paper. Similarly, non-market housing neighbourhoods with higher levels of disadvantage have moderate infrastructures of care in place, but some are actually care deserts. We also provide methodological and conceptual suggestions for further assessing infrastructures of care.

Dans un contexte régional alimenté par la multiplication des tensions autour de l'accès, de l'usage et du contrôle des ressources naturelles, les mangroves de Douala se révèlent être un terrain emblématique pour apprécier la conflictualité socio-environnementale à l'échelle urbaine. En mobilisant le cadre d'analyse stratégique de la gestion environnementale de Mermet (2011) et une méthodologie mixte, combinant analyse spatiale diachronique (1990-2024), observations de terrain et 27 entretiens semi-dirigés, cette étude met en évidence une perte estimée à plus de 7300 hectares de mangroves en 34 ans. En mettant en lumière la diversité des modèles d'action (organisés, dispersés et discrètes), les résultats démontrent que cette dégradation ne résulte pas uniquement de l'urbanisation informelle et du manque de régulation étatique. En effet, elle s'inscrit dans une configuration d'acteurs pluriels, porteurs de visions concurrentes et évoluant dans un cadre de gouvernance multi-niveaux fragmenté. Au-delà du constat écologique, la gestion des mangroves apparaît à Douala comme une arène politique, révélatrice des tensions entre développement et conservation. Cette étude invite à repenser la gouvernance de ces espaces à travers des dispositifs collaboratifs capables de dépasser les logiques sectorielles pour construire des accords partagés sur l'avenir de ces écosystèmes stratégiques.

Canada has committed to eliminating accessibility barriers by 2040, yet municipalities lack clear, comparable evidence on where building access breaks down. To address this gap, we set out to produce and test a participatory, city-scale method to measure building accessibility of businesses. We report results from Mapping Our Cities for All, a disabled-led assessment of public-facing businesses in Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, and selected small Alberta communities (n=13,804). To evaluate how well our sample reflects local business landscapes, we compared our results with Statistics Canada's Open Database of Businesses by dissemination area and used a Mann–Whitney U test; within the study cities, distributions did not differ, supporting local representativeness. We then profiled accessibility at the city level and identified clusters using hot spot analysis (Getis–Ord Gi*), Global Moran's I, and local indicators of spatial association (LISA) applied to perceived ratings (accessible, partially accessible, not accessible). Across sites, fewer than half of audited businesses were rated fully accessible, with statistically significant clustering of lower accessibility in dense commercial districts. By pairing community audits with standard spatial statistics, we provide a practical baseline for tracking progress toward a barrier-free Canada.