By Noa Nahmias I am a PhD candidate in History working on modern China. Despite having followed the impact of the novel coronavirus in China, I was caught off-guard when the crisis came to Toronto. Working in my living room, now both ‘home’ and ‘office,’ I am trying to adjust to what we are being […]
Elena Chou (Sociology) and Anna M. Agathangelou (Politics) are contributors to a recently-published collection—The Art of Global Power: Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices—edited by Emily Merson (University of Regina). The authors consider artwork and popular cultures as crucial sites of contesting and transforming power relationships in world politics. They draw on their experiences […]
Congratulations to Alicia Turner (Humanities) on her just published co-authored book, The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire. It looks at the extraordinary life of U Dhammaloka, an extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor and hobo who became one of the first Western Buddhist monks and an anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century […]
“What is a disaster? Is it the howling winds and rains announced on the weather forecast? Or the vulnerabilities of those whose lives, homes and livelihoods are repeatedly destroyed?” YCAR graduate associate Chaya Ocampo Go’s (Geography) doctoral research project grapples with the above questions as she examines the political ecology of disaster response in the […]
Projects focusing on gender, urbanization and identity in the Greater China Region and in the diaspora in Canada received funding earlier this year from the Canada-China Initiative Fund at the York Centre for Asian Research. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post-1911) […]
Call for Papers | Special Issue on Families, Communities, and Nation States in the COVID-19 Pandemic – Chinese Sociological Review Deadline: April 26 Chinese Sociological Review (CSR) is accepting proposals for a Special Issue on Families, Communities and Nation-States in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The editorial team’s deadline for proposal submissions is Sunday, 26 April 2020. […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for the YCAR Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards. A small monetary award of $200 is available for one recipient in each category: Geographic Asia and Asian Diaspora. The winning papers will be published online as part […]
Cary Wu (Sociology) received $176, 256 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study issues of trust and how it affects prevention and control measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Congratulations Cary! Read more at: https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/03/08/york-researchers-receive-1-1-million-in-covid-19-research-funding/
Congratulations to Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business) and Philip F. Kelly (Geography) on their new edited collection. Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia, published by Cambridge University Press. It explores the mobilities of capital and labour in the contemporary global economy, with a particular focus on Asia. Using an analytical framework around […]
YCAR director Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) research on flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia is the focus of our latest Asia Research Brief. Kusno’s SSHRC-funded research builds on the insights of current scholarship from critical geography and anthropology of infrastructure to make sense of a social formation (such as Jakarta) in which flooding has led to both […]