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Yasir Hameed

Graduate Associate

yasirh[at]yorku.ca

Doctoral Candidate

Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies


Research Keywords:

Public space; housing; safety; marginalization; resistance; social justice; cities


Research Region(s):

India, South Asia

Research Diaspora(s):

Asian Diaspora, South Asian Diaspora

Yasir Hameed is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University and a York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Associate. He has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning (UC Berkeley). His work explores questions of public space, housing, safety, marginalization, resistance, and social justice in cities. His dissertation research examines how Hindu nationalism has traveled transnationally across neocolonial landscapes and manifests in physical and online spaces of Canada.


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