Scott Prudham

Scott Prudham is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, cross-appointed to the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. He is also the past-President (2012-2016) of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA). His work concerns the fields of environmental policy and politics, forests and conservation, and social and environmental justice. In a recent article in Dialectical Anthropology, Professor Prudham reflects on experiences making emergency food relief deliveries for a volunteer organization based in the Jane Street and Finch Avenue area of Toronto during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, reflecting on the “urban typology” of pandemic risk and how exposure risk and disease morbidity were constituted by uneven geographies of employment, but also food and housing security, income, wealth, racialized difference, and urban form.

He is the author of the 2005 Routledge book Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas-fir Country, and co-editor of the 2007 Routledge collection Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences.

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