[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...
2020 Graduate Award Recipient: Yasir Hameed awarded the Nirvan Bhavan Graduate Fellowship
30-07-2020
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...
"F se Feminism," Deepa Venkatesan's (Communication & Culture) new interactive documentary
23-07-2020
3 stories. 6 women. An interactive documentary film portraying what lived experiences of feminism in India look like. Virtually immerse in their art, stories and experiences on 30 July 2020....
Congratulations YCAR Research Associate D. Mitra Barua!
21-07-2020
YCAR Research Associate D. Mitra Barua is a 2020–21 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellow in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies. Congratulations Mitra! He...
Faculty Associates awarded SSHRC funding for projects ranging from fictions of finance to Buddhist identity
20-07-2020
Congratulations to the YCAR Faculty Associates who received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as part of the Fall 2019 Insight competition. Russell Belk...