Fellows

Dr. Yvonne Su is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. She is a member of the Centre for Refugee Studies, the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, and the York Centre for Asian Research. Yvonne is a specialist on forced migration, queer migration, diaspora studies and post-disaster recovery. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph and a MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. Broadly, her research interests focus on migration and development, refugee protection and disaster risk reduction. Her current SSHRC funded research examines South-South humanitarian responses in the context of forced migration using the case study of Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil. Previously, Yvonne spent 7 months in the Philippines researching the role of migrant remittances in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan.

Yvonne’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from SSHRC, IDRC, Canadian Heritage, the Government of Ontario and the Mackenzie King Scholarship Trust. She is also the recipient of over 25 national and international awards and scholarships including the Young Woman of Distinction Award and the University of Guelph’s Young Alumni Award.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Venezuela, Brazil

Keywords: Forced migration, queer migration, diaspora studies and post-disaster recovery

His research concentrates on law and globalization, regulation and governance theory, transnational law, non-state regulation, global legal pluralism, extractive industries (oil, mining and gas projects), indigenous rights; Latin America, international financial institutions, multi-sited ethnography and fieldwork-based research in the global South. He is a founding member of the Extractive Industries Research Group (EIRG) at York, a network of researchers working on oil, mining and gas projects. He is the author of “Transnational Law and Local Struggles: Mining, Communities and the World Bank” (Hart Publishing, 2007). Professor Szablowski is currently engaged in a research project examining the operationalization of emerging transnational norms requiring informed consent or consultation for extractive industry development on indigenous territory.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Latin America

Keywords: Governance , Globalization , Extractive Industries, Political Ecology, Legal pluralism

Dr. Kate Tilleczek is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Young Lives, Education & Global Good and Full Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University. She is founder and Scientific Director of Young Lives Research Laboratory which is international in scope and investigates how complex modern societies are shifting to support and/or negate the lives and well-being of young people.  Kate’s CRC at York will be leveraged to collaborate across faculties to morph her laboratory into the Young Lives Institute- CANADA.

Kate works in global and local contexts and is Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury’s Youth: An International Archive.  She has been honored with Education Canada’s Whitworth Award for achievement in education research, was Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University Department of International Development (Young Lives https://www.younglives.org.uk) and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Youth Studies (https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjys20)

Dr. Tilleczek is currently leading 8 externally funded and youth-based research projects that engage young people in research about education, well-being and the digital age.  For example, she is leading a SSHRC-funded study on long-term impacts of technology on young lives with a focus on Indigenous, immigrant, and vulnerable youth. She also co-led a five year Global Affairs Canada project with and for Indigenous youth and communities in southern Chile in which a unique intercultural and interdisciplinary curriculum and school (Wekimün School, wekimun.cl) has been developed to integrate traditional and modern knowledge to meet educational and well-being needs of youth and their communities. She continues to work in southern Chile with the Williche Council of Chiefs and in a unique research and curriculum development project funded by SSHRC (Knowing Global Youth). Her related project in Central America and the Caribbean is focused on how education does/does not enhance well-being and human rights of youth. This is part of the SSHRC Partnership grant known as Rights for Children and Youth in the Americas (RCYP http://rcypartnership.org/en/).

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Chile, Central America and the Caribbean

Keywords: youth education, technology, indigenous, immigrants, vulnerable youth

 Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Caribbean

Keywords: Caribbean; Social and Cultural

Wahab’s research concentrates on sexual citizenship in liberal and postcolonial nation-state formations (mainly related to the Caribbean and Canada), race and queer transnational politics, critiques of queer liberalism, and race, gender and the politics of representation. His current research project focuses on queer anti-racist critiques of homonationalism in Canada.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Trinidad and Tobago, Canada

Keywords: Sexuality, Gender, Queer studies, Race, Postcolonial Nationalism, Transnationalism

Jeffery R. Webber is a political economist with research interests in Latin America, Marxism, social theory, the history of the Left, international development, capitalism and nature, imperialism, the politics of class and social oppression, and social movements. He is author or co-author of five books –  Impasse of the Latin America Left, with Franck Gaudichaud and Massimo Modonesi (forthcoming); The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left (2017); Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America, with Todd Gordon (2016); Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia (2012); and From Rebellion to Reform: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales (2011). He is also the co-editor of two books – Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Political Economy, with Susan Spronk (2015); and The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire, with Barry Carr (2013). Before coming to York Webber taught at Goldsmiths, University of London, Queen Mary University of London, and the University of Regina. He has lectured across Europe, North America, and Latin America, and sits on the editorial board of Historical Materialism.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Latin America

Keywords: Marxism, social theory, the history of the Left, international development, capitalism and nature, imperialism, the politics of class and social oppression, and social movements.

I am an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University where I teach in the area of global environmental politics and critical development studies. In conjunction with colleagues and community organizations, my research examines and critiques the political ecology and political economy of industrial extraction, with a focus on the merging of corporate security and social welfare interventions in strategic oil and gas exporters. I have received various SSHRC awards for her research on topics related to the political economy of hydrocarbons, substantive industrial transparency, and the contested regulation of extractive industries in oceans beyond national jurisdiction. Emerging from this work and informed by critiques of capitalism and persistent colonialism/imperialism, my current research centres on Canadian investment in the denationalization of the Mexican energy sector and financial risk in new extractive frontiers in the global oceans/seabed beyond national jurisdiction. I have given invited presentations at many venues internationally.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Nigeria, Mexico, Canada

Keywords: Extractive industries, development, oil industry