Ifrah Ali. As a second year doctoral student at the University of Toronto's Dalla School of Public Health, my research unpacks the interconnections between the social and the ecological as it relates to climate change adaptation in low and middle income counties, particularly in Africa. I pose critical questions about urbanization and climate change adaptation through an analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, related to water. I also explore the impact of an increasingly unstable climate on the lived experience and daily challenges faced by residents in informal settlements within urban areas in West Africa and their access to safe water.
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Lina Nasr El Hag Ali a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include anarchist perspectives on international relations and its relation to revolutionary violence and dissent. Her article "Waging War on the Citizen: State Sovereignty, Citizen Death and the War on Terror" was published in 2015 in the Journal of International Relations, Peace and Development Studies at Arcadia University/ the American Graduate School in Paris. Lina has previously organized with the Toronto Industrial Workers of the World and is currently a member of their general membership branch.
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Kieran Allen is a member of People Before Profit in Ireland and a sociologist at University College Dublin. Dr. Allen has written about radical politics in the context of Ireland and Europe, including seven single-authored books. His most recent book, Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition (2016) brings the radical tradition back into the history of the Easter Uprising and shows how this tradition endures and challenges elitist politics to this day.
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Sabah Alnaserri was born in Basra, Iraq, and earned his doctorate at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. His publications cover various topics in Marxist political economy, Marxist state theory in the tradition of Gramsci, Poulantzas and Althusser, regulation theory, and Middle East politics and economy. His recent journal publications include: "Revolutionaries seldom harvest the fruit," in Studies in Marxism, 2012; and, "Imperialism and the social question in (semi)-peripheries: The case for a neo-national bourgeoisie," Global Discourse. He also recently published an edited volume entitled Arab Revolutions and Beyond: The Middle East and Reverberations in the Americas (Palgrave, 2016).
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Balca Arda received her PhD (2016) in the Department of Political Science at York University. Her dissertation "The Sublime in Contemporary Art and Politics: The post-9/11 Art of the Middle Eastern Diaspora in North America" builds on art theory and ethnographic study in dialogue with diaspora studies, postcolonial literatures and critical approaches to identity politics and representation. Her latest articles are: "The Sousveillance Strategies in the Diasporic Art of Middle-Eastern Diaspora" in Mashriq & Mahjar, "The Construction of a New Sociality through the Social Media: The Case of Gezi Uprising in Turkey," in Conjunctions and "Apolitical is Political: An Ethnographic Study on the Public Sphere in the Gezi Uprising in Turkey," in Interface.
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Isabella Bakker is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University and a York Research Chair on Global Economic Governance, Gender and Human Rights. She is a leading authority in the fields of political economy, public finance, gender and development. She has held visiting professorships at a number of institutions including the European University Institute, New York University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has also held consultancies with the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Canadian government as well as with numerous advocacy groups dedicated to advancing economic and social justice such as Oxfam Canada. Her most recent book (with Brigitte Young and Diane Elson) is Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective (Routledge).
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Kyler Chittick is a graduate student in Political Science at York University (Toronto). He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Political Science at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) in 2016, where he completed an undergraduate thesis on the gentrification of queer spaces in New York City. While he continues to investigate the intersections of queerness and spatiality in his current research, he maintains interests in cinema studies, affect theory, continental philosophy and gender/sexuality studies. His academic work can be found in the University of Alberta’s Education and Research Archive, while his fiction has been published in the magazine Glass Buffalo.
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John Clarke became active in anti-poverty struggles in the early 80s, when he helped form the Union of Unemployed Workers in London, Ontario. In 1990, he moved to Toronto to become an organizer with the newly formed Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). He has been with OCAP ever since as it carries out its work of mobilizing communities under attack to resist the impacts of poverty and austerity.
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Roxanne Cohen. I am finishing my Masters and starting my PhD in Education at York. I work to cultivate learning spaces towards democratic, equitable and self-determined living in harmony with Earth and fellow human beings. I do this through my academic work and Conscious Minds Co-operative and Camp (CMC) - an education and arts co-op I co-founded that is focused in climate change resilience, decolonization, human rights, and holistic health. Through CMC, I am working with academics from U of T and York to scale up the CMCamp model to include 1, 3, and 7-day programs. I am passionate about organizing structures that facilitate fluid authentic participation in deliberative democracy.
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Annelies Cooper is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University. Her PhD research inquires into gendered colonial governance and the politics of consent and recognition through the implementation of Canada's legal "duty to consult." Since 2014, she has been organizing alongside Indigenous-led sovereignty movements on the territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabek, and Wyndat nations (Toronto), as well as in Anishnabek Treaty 3 territory (Northwestern Ontario). She is also engaged in anti-sexual violence activism and advocacy for survivor-centric campus policies through her community, campus, and union.
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Clinton Debogorski is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His main areas of research are phenomenology, critical and political theory, the history of Indian Residential Schools in Canada and the United States, and genocide studies. In his dissertation, he draws on these fields in order to develop an anarchist critique of the contemporary state as a condition of advanced "camp capitalism."
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Aytak Dibavar is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science at York University, where she is majoring in international relations and women and politics. She is a 2016 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholar and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow. Aytak’s research investigates the intergenerational transmission of political trauma in authoritarian states where public debate and discussion are impossible. Her hypothesis is that survivors of state violence transmit their trauma to their children through private, familial mechanisms that cohere to produce a collective political identity in the subsequent generation that can be traced in that generation’s organizing and activism. She is currently a graduate fellow at York Centre for Refugee Studies and research fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute.
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Havva Ezgi Dogru holds a PhD degree in Political Science from York University and specializes in urban politics, political economy and comparative politics. Her doctoral project entitled, "The 'Benevolent Hand' of the Turkish State: Turkish Mass Housing Administration, State Restructuring and Capital Accumulation in Turkey," explores the Turkish State's contradictory role in the housing market. She has published articles on the restructuring of the Turkish state, urban politics, and mass housing issues.
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Matt Dow is a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University, Canada. His previous research focused on global social reproduction in relation to the resource war in Afghanistan. Presently, he is working on his dissertation entitled "Canada's Carbon Capitalism: In The Age Of Climate Change." Other research interests include peak energy, social reproduction, climate change, power theory of value, monetary/debt theory, global political economy/international relations theory, and the politics of resistance.
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James Fitzgerald is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science at York University. His research focuses on settler colonialism, specifically as it concerns discourses and power relations shaping calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. His major fields of study are international relations and women and politics.
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Kristi Leora Gansworth is a poet and PhD student in the Department of Geography at York University. She is a citizen of Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg. In addition to her studies, she is working on a full-length collection of poetry. All her work is an ongoing engagement with her existence as Anishinaabekwe, in service to her ancestors and all those who are coming.
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Sandy Hudson is a member of Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO).
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Ryan Kelpin is a PhD student in Political Science at York University. His research interests include: democratization of urban governance structures in Canada; neoliberalism's social regulatory and criminalization aspects as they relate to precarious and marginalized persons in the immediacy of the local scale; and the constitutionalism of neoliberalism in the context of Ontario and Toronto.
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Adam Kingsmith (A.T). A.T. is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is the deputy editor for the Journal of Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and chair of the Digital Issues Committee at Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. A.T.’s dissertation, tentatively titled ‘Schizophrenic Subjectivities,’ is developing a concept of the schizo-survey to chart the co-constitutive processes of informational technologies and social transformation. Adam is a founding member of the Console Cowfolk Computer Club (C4).
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Ruth Koleszar-Green draws upon Onkwehonwe (the Mohawk word for "original people") knowledges, approaches and world views. She is a Mohawk woman and a member of the Turtle clan. As a teacher, Ruth utilizes Onkwehonwe pedagogies including storytelling, experiential learning, and reciprocal relationship building. As a researcher, Ruth brings Onkwehonwe histories and knowledges into critical social work education. As a community member, she co-chairs the York wide Indigenous Council, serves on the community council of Aboriginal Legal Services, and sits on the board of Toronto's Native Child and Family Services.
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Robert Latham teaches in the Political Science Department and the Communication and Culture, and Social and Political Thought programs at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published widely on topics including political economy, security, digital activism, technologies of border surveillance, critical theories of sovereignty, transnational relations, migration, and multiculturalism. His most recent book is, Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State. His current book project, Re-Collectivism, explores political theories of radical social and political transformation.
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Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. Her research interests include neoliberal restructuring, gender order transition, labour market insecurity, and nationalism in former Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries. Olena has presented and written on the ongoing Ukraine crisis as a case of new orientalism. Her dissertation work will draw on feminist political economy, comparative welfare regimes literature, and social history of everyday life to trace the ways in which the contemporary neoliberal project in Russia draws on the institutional resources of the Soviet state, including the "mother-worker" gender contract.
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Gita Madan organizes in Toronto with Educators for Peace and Justice. She is also a high school teacher. She obtained her masters degree in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto. Through a framework of racial justice, her research investigates the carceral logic underpinning the increasing use of security- and surveillance- based strategies of discipline and control in school spaces.
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Terry Maley teaches critical and radical democratic theory and politics in the Political Science department and in the Social and Political Thought graduate program at York University. He has written about participatory budgeting, radical democratic movements, neoliberalism and critical theory. He has also been an activist who worked with the trade union movement on alternative budgets and social justice issues. His new edited book, One-Dimensional Man 50 Years On: The Struggle Continues, is being published by Fernwood Publishing in May of this year.
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My name is Marrissa Mathews and I am a Cree woman from Kapuskasing, Ontario, which is in Treaty 9 territory. I am currently a Master of Arts in Political Science student at York University and my work involves looking at respectability politics and their manifestation within an Indigenous context at different sites of contention in Canadian politics. I will be starting a doctoral program in Political Science at McMaster University in September 2017.
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David McNally teaches Political Science at York University, Toronto, and is the author of six books, including Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance, winner of the 2011 Paul Sweezy Award, and Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism, winner of the 2012 Deutscher Memorial Award. David is a long-time global justice activist, and supports Faculty for Palestine, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, and Toronto New Socialists, among other groups.
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Hodan Ahmed Mohamed, BA (University of Toronto), M.A. (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) is a diaspora Somali Canadian with a focus on community research, public policy, leadership facilitation, and youth employment. She is a co-founder of the Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law. Her research on racial-profiling was published in the Ontario Human Rights Commission 2015-16 annual report.
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Petra Molnar is a migrant rights researcher and soon-to-be lawyer in Toronto, Canada. She is a former refugee settlement worker who has researched forced migration issues in Canada and internationally, including with respect to immigration detention, health and human rights, and gender-based violence. Petra holds a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology from York University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Petra writes about the discourses that shape the relationship between law, society, and culture, as well as the politics of refugee, immigration, and international human rights law. She is currently working on a book on the Syrian conflict.
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Karen Murray studies Canada in comparative perspective (Ireland and the United States). With the aim of bringing reciprocity and counter histories into analyses of contemporary politics and pedagogical practice, she draws upon community archives, ethnographic and narrative methods. Karen has ongoing research relating respectively to gentrification, poverty and new urban institutions, and the political purposes of the residential school system. She is also engaged in a project on experiential education in political science. Her most recent publications can be found in Urban Geography (2015) and the Canadian Journal of Political Science (forthcoming). Karen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.
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Jessica Parish is a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University. Her forthcoming dissertation entitled "The Vital Politics of Gentrification and the 'Healthification' of Parkdale in the 21st Century" examines street-level changes in Parkdale in relation to broader shifts in the governance of the health of urban populations. Jessica lives in the Davenport-Junction Triangle area of Toronto. She works part time as a server and, occasionally, a teacher.
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Justin Podur is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. He is the author of Haiti's New Dictatorship, and chapters in Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan and Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century.
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Jesson Reyes is the regional coordinator of Migrante-Canada in Ontario.
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Althea-Maria Rivas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science (York University). Her research focuses on the politics of international intervention, post-conflict violence and gender, peace and security. In 2014, she received the Cedric Smith Prize for peace and conflict research from the UK Conflict Research Society. Her academic career is complimented by 15 years of working with international organizations and civil society groups in 20+ countries across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Her book Security, Development and the Stories of Everyday Conflict in Afghanistan (Routledge) will come out in early 2018.
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Siobhan Saravanamuttu is a MA Political Science candidate at York University. Her research interests are broadly based in feminist political economy, migration and diaspora, labour market insecurity, and disability studies. Siobhan's masters research employs a postcolonial feminist lens to explore transnational migrant labour, in particular, Sri Lankan domestic workers in the Gulf region. Siobhan is also is a Graduate Student Associate at the Global Labour Research Centre at York, and holds a Graduate Research Award, working with YWCA Canada to research and advocate on issues of women's work, labour precarity, housing and homelessness, and economic empowerment.
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David K. Seitz is a Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. His research investigates questions of desire, difference and citizenship. In July, he joins Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Geography. His first book is entitled A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church and will be released this November by the University of Minnesota Press.
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Bahar Shadpour is the Communications Coordinator at the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), where she works to advance human rights and justice in housing for low-income Ontarians. She represents ACTO on the Fairbnb Coalition. She was previously the Manager of Public Relations and Online Engagement at the Canadian Women's Foundation. She holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Windsor, as well as a post-graduate certificate in public relations and communications from Centennial College.
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Yara Shoufani is a Palestinian graduate student at McMaster University, and an activist in the movement for Palestinian self-determination. Her research currently looks at Marxist critical urban theory, with a focus on colonization and gentrification in Israel and Palestine.
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Vannina Sztainbok is a Latinx scholar and activist who engages in anticolonial, anti-racist, and queer education projects. Currently, she is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research brings an anti-racist feminist lens to the study of Latin American urban spaces. She is particularly interested in thinking about how the "extra-discursive"or unconscious aspects of racial subjectivity connect to experiences of place, violence, and displacement, as well as to the politics of resistance. Vannina is also the Director of Research and Education for the Latin American Queer Education Project.
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Steve Tufts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at York University. His research interests are related to the geographies of work, workers and organized labour. His projects involve the use of strategic research by labour unions and labour union renewal in the city, labour market adjustment for immigrant workers, and a current Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded project on the relationship between labour unions and growing populism. He has contributed to a number of edited collections and recently published articles in journals such as Labor Studies Journal, and Antipode.
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Ethel Tungohan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Political Science and Social Science at York University. She has published in peer-reviewed academic journals. Her co-edited book, Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisbility, is the first-ever academic volume in Canada to synthesize research on the lives of Filipinx migrants. She is also a community activist and has worked closely with Gabriela-Ontario and Migrante-Canada.
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Julian von Bargen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University (Toronto). He is interested in media theory, political economy, information/knowledge, infrastructure, institutions, power, computation, and the philosophy of technology. His current research examines the competing political struggles over and contradictions inherent to the informational restructuration of the Icelandic state known as “the Switzerland of bits.” Julian is a founding member of the Console Cowfolk Computer Club (C4).
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Dillon Wamsley is an MA student in Political Science at York University who will be pursuing his PhD in the fall. While his research interests extend across International and Comparative Political Economy, including Marxist and non-Marxist critical IR frameworks, his current research focuses on the political economy of the mass incarceration system in the US, the relation between debt and the criminal justice system, and the various class, race, and gendered components of disciplinary neoliberalism in the US. Dillon is also an affiliate of the Global Labour Research Centre at York, and a community organizer for ACORN Canada in Toronto.
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George Abbott White is a Boston teacher, writer and education technology consultant, Europe and America, since 1966. From George McGovern on he has photographed rallies, demonstrations and progressive campaigns. (Mis) made station wagons for Ford (UAW/Detroit); scribbled for The Michigan Daily; organized protests for S.D.S.; coached a junior high soccer team (Leftwing became British Foreign Secretary); brought together the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel and Apple Computer's John Sculley, twice. Written or edited: New Poet Series; Literature in Revolution; Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life; Plain Pictures of Plain Doctoring (w/ John D Stoeckle, MD); and, 240+ essays, articles and reviews.
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Ann Withorn has been a close observer and ally to several radical movements in the United States since the late 1960s, especially concerning welfare rights, women's rights, and racial and economic justice. She has published extensively on such topics. From 1977 to 2013, she taught social movement history and theory at the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts (Boston). Ann is currently working on a book that draws upon her more than forty years of formal and informal radical teaching, entitled Who Did We Think We Were: Radical Higher Education and the Neoliberal Imperative. She is also active in the effort to build a movement for a Universal Basic Income, and to resist rightwing forces in the US. For more information on Ann please see: www.radicalreentry.com.
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Lesley Wood is interested in how ideas travel, how power operates, how institutions change, how conversations influence practices, how people resist and how conflict starts, transforms and ends. She is the author of Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion (2012) and Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing (2014). She is Associate Professor of Sociology at York, a regional editor for Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements, and is active in the anti-poverty and global justice movements.
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Anna Zalik is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, where she teaches and advises in the areas of global environmental politics and critical development studies. Her research focuses on the political economy and political ecology of oil, gas and other extractives, centering on their spatial and social relations with historical and contemporary colonialism.
