Faculty Members and Their Research Interests
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ALHASSAN, Amin Development Communication Policy, International Communications, ICTs and Digital Inclusion, and Post-development Theory. Prof Alhassan is also working on the “grammar of aid” that problematizes charity, philanthropy, and development in the communicative economy of the sign. |
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CANEL, Eduardo |
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DAS, Raju Development studies, political economy, technology, nature, population, production relations, globalization and rural labor, state-society relations including state's developmental interventions, state theory, social capital, social movements, production of spatial forms of class and non-class social relations, South Asia |
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DRUMMOND, Lisa Urban geography, social life of non-Western cities, gender and geography, urban society in Vietnam, geography of urban Southeast Asia, Asian popular culture, development geography, gender in developing societies. |
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GRINSPUN, Ricardo Ricardo Grinspun is associate professor of Economics, a fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), and one of the initiators of the University Consortium on the Global South at York. He specializes in questions of development and international trade, hemispheric integration, and globalization in the Americas. He is a former director of CERLAC and has directed several large scale international development projects, including now a CIDA-funded linkage project with Chilean partners on agroecology and sustainable rural development. He is co-editor and co-author of four books and one briefing paper series, and the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and technical reports. He is now co-editing and co-authoring a volume for McGill-Queen’s University Press on “deep integration” in North America. |
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GURURANI, Shubhra Cultural politics of environment and development, postcoloniality, third world feminisms, and social movements, extensive ethnographic and archival research in one of the internationally known hotbeds of environmental movements - the land of Chipko, in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, India and critical exploration of the cultural production and representation of nature, environmentalism, place, gender, and identity. |
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GILES, Wenona Email:wgiles@yorku.ca (Ph.D, Anthropology, University of Toronto) Gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” at York University. She is presently involved in an international research project concerning protracted refugee situations. |
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HELLMAN, Judy
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IDAHOSA, Pablo Displacement and ethnicity in the Niger Delta, the relationship between ethnicity and displacement in Nigeria, the relationship between development and modernity in Africa, relationships between development and Cultural production in Africa, and the politics of AIDS in Africa, development ethics, African political thought, the politics of ethnicity, and globalization and development. |
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IDEMUDIA, Uwafiokun Corporate Social Responsibility and the extractive industry; the relationship between natural resources, sustainable development and conflict in the global south; and political ecology and environmental security. |
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KELLY, Phillip Economic integration of Southeast Asian immigrants in Canada: labour markets, workplaces, class identities, livelihoods; Filipino migration and transnationalism: cultural, political and economic dimensions; International, regional, rural-rural and rural-urban migration in/ from Southeast Asia; Labour, indus trialization and urbanization in Southeast Asia; and the politics of globalization and other representations of economic space. |
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KEMPADOO, Kamala Transnational and Caribbean feminisms; sex work and sexual-economic relations, the global trafficking of persons, intersections of race, gender and class. |
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MCGRATH, Susan Email:smcgrath@yorku.ca (Ph.D. University of Toronto) Prof. McGrath’s academic and research interests include: refugee women’s mental health, rehabilitation of survivors of torture, community education and practice, community-based social development and trauma rehabilitation in Rwanda. |
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MENSAH, Joseph Website: http://www.yorku.ca/jmensah/ Critical development theory; socio-spatial dialectics; religious transnationalism; neoliberalism and globalization; race, space, and employment; quantitative and qualitative research methods; and Africa |
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MUKHERJEE, Ananya Website:http://www.yorku.ca/ananya/ Empirical work on South Asia; broader theoretical issues related to development - and in particular the epistemology of development, the relationship between corporate capital, globalization and human development. |
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PATRONI, Viviana Political economy of development in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico and Argentina, politics of labour market reform and workers’ responses to it in Argentina. |
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PEAKE, Linda Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/lpeake/ Caribbean, especially Guyana; Feminist research methodologies; |
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QUADIR, Fahim Aid effectiveness, Civil society, democratization, economic liberalization, emerging donors, good governance, human development, human security, micro-finance, NGOs, development planning and management, and regionalism. |
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REED, Darryl |
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SRINIVASAN, Sharada |
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VANDERGEEST, Peter Political ecology, agro-food studies, the cultural politics of environment and development, and Southeast Asian studies. |
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