Ilan Kapoor

Ilan Kapoor

Professor, FRSC Credentials PhD Political Science , University of TorontoMA International Affairs , Carleton UniversityBA (Honours) Economics and Political Science , University of Waterloo Research Keywords Critical Development Studies; Postcolonial Theory/Politics; Psychoanalytic Theory/Politics/Marxism; Ideology Critique (Drawing On The Work Of Slavoj Žižek); Participation/Democracy; Celebrity Humanitarianism; Western & Non-Western Political Theory. Contact Information 4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON M3J 1P3 416 736 2100 ikapoor@yorku.ca  http://ilankapoor.com/ Research […]

Global Political Economy

EUC researchers are producing critical analyses of contemporary global capitalism, feminist perspectives on geopolitics, and psychoanalytical interpretations of global development. We are also exploring the changing worlds of work, employment and labour organizing; the global rise of right-wing populism; and new structures of accumulation through technoscientific capitalism. Projects Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in […]

Protests in Hong Kong and Thailand: A Politics of Hysteria or Perversion?

What is remarkable about the spate of protests in Hong Kong and Thailand in recent months is their tenacity. Despite state intimidation and violence in both places, demonstrators have kept up their fight, at least until lately. In Thailand, waves of demonstrations, composed mostly of high school and university students, have risked heavy-handed police tactics […]

Applying a psychoanalytic lens to Development Studies

Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies, a postcolonial scholar, and one of the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcoloniality to the field of Development Studies. He first came to prominence in the early 2000s through a series of journal articles on participatory development, that is, the practice of involving beneficiaries of […]

Psychoanalysis and International Development

Principal Investigator: Ilan Kapoor. Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2018-2023. The research aims to investigate how, and to what extent, psychoanalysis intersects with international development; and to identify and analyze examples and case studies of psychoanalytic phenomena from both the Geography/Development Studies literature and the international programs of development organizations based on field work. Particular attention will […]