Publics and Social Justice
Canada is being called on to engage critically with our collectively held notions of citizenship, publics and belongings as one step toward ensuring social justice for diverse populations. The Publics and Social Justice Research Collective fosters research, education, and cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration on historical and contemporary inequities as these inform our diverse experiences of belongings, both local and national, while also complicating the notion of belonging itself.
This cluster's researchers conduct multi-/inter-disciplinary research in a wide variety of areas including Indigenous settler-relations and histories, feminism and the politics of decolonization, reproductive and environmental justice, critical security studies, memory and visual culture, religious and diasporic identities and belongings, Black Canadian cultural production, immigration and refugee policy and citizenship, citizenship education, Caribbean religions in transnational contexts, African diaspora, religion and migration, gendered violence, gender and diversity studies.
Researchers
Chris Anderson (Political Science)
Alexandra Boutros (Communications Studies)
Tarah Brookfield (History; Youth and Children’s Studies)
Cynthia Comacchio (History)
Carol Duncan (Religion and Culture; Religious Studies)
Robert Kristofferson (Social and Environmental Justice; History)
Lucy Luccisano (Sociology)
Sara Matthews (Global Studies; Anthropology; Communication Studies; Religion, Culture and Social Justice)
Susan Neylan (History)
Karen Stote (Women and Gender Studies)
Barrington Walker (History)
Glenda Wall (Sociology)
Publications
Boutros, Alexandra. “The Impossibility of Being Drake: Or What it Means to be a Successful (Black) Canadian Rapper, Global Hip Hop Studies, 1:1. 2020. 95-114.
Boutros, Alexandra. “The Edges of a Pandemic: Pseudoscience, Alternative Medicine, and Belief in the Age of Covid,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Special Issue, 41. 42-49 (2020).
Carol Duncan (ed). The Black Church Studies Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Brookfield, Tarah. Our Voices Must Be Heard: Women and the Vote in Ontario. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.
Comacchio, Cynthia R. The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of a Modern Canada, 1920-1950. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Neylan, Susan. The Heavens Are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.