YCAR News | 2020 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Recipients
14-09-2020
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and...
Graduate Associate Noa Nahmias (History) is the recipient of a dissertation fellowship
11-09-2020
Congratulations to Noa Nahmias (History), the 2020–21 recipient of the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia dissertation fellowship. Established in 2008, the D....
Asia Research Brief #37: New Directions in Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia
08-09-2020
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Peter Vandergeest (Geography) gives an overview of the program of research on New Directions in Environmental Governance (NDEG) which wrapped up in 2019. The...
2020 Graduate Award Recipient: Heather Evans
04-09-2020
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and...
[New Book] Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development
02-09-2020
Congratulations to Ilan Kapoor (Environmental Studies) on his new book—Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development (Cornell University Press, 2020). By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying...
[New Book] On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis
01-09-2020
Congratulations to Laam Hae (Politics) on her new co-edited book, On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Professor Hae...
Congratulations to SSHRC IDG recipients
28-08-2020
Congratulations to our Faculty Associates who received Insight Development Grants (IDG) earlier this summer. Nga Dao (Social Science) | Principal Investigator | Territory and Politics of Resources: Everyday Lives and...
2020 Graduate Award Recipient: Meera Kanageswaran, recipient of the N. Sivalingam Award in Tamil Studies
20-08-2020
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and...
YorkSpace & YCAR
13-08-2020
We’d like to introduce YorkSpace. This is the university’s open access repository platform that enables York community members to post, organize, disseminate and preserve their scholarly outputs online in an...
Asia Research Brief #36: The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi (Pakistan), 1980s–2010s
12-08-2020
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Ayyaz Mallick (Environmental Studies) summarizes his dissertation which aimed to understand the decline of Karachi, Pakistan’s vibrant labour movement and the proliferation of exclusivist...