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Associate Publication on Ecotourism in Cambodia | La Conquête Territoriale par L’écotourisme: Le Cas de Chi Phat Dans les Cardamomes

YCAR Postdoctoral Fellow, Jonathan Tardif, explores the complex, political and multilevel nature of ecotourism in his latest co-authored book chapter with Bruno Sarrasin, “La conquête territoriale par l’écotourisme: le cas de Chi Phat dans les Cardamomes”. In this chapter, Tardif and Sarrasin view ecotourism in protected areas as a territorialization process and focus on notions of access and […]

Shazia Javed Speaks With The Times of India About Muslim Women, Divorce and the UCC

YCAR Graduate Associate, Shazia Javed (Film), was interviewed by the Times of India about her latest film project on the vulnerability of Muslim women in marital relationships because of the practice of triple talaq (divorce). Javed suggests that the best thing for allies to do is to amplify the voices of Muslim women activists who […]

Kabita Chakraborty Wins Teaching Award

YCAR faculty associate and Assistant Professor in Children’s Studies, Kabita Chakraborty, wins the 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching Award in the category of full-time faculty.  The award recognizes faculty for their contributions to enhancing the quality of learning for York students.  Chakraborty was recognized in particular for creating a fun and practical learning environment for her students. […]

Launch of Curriculum Pack Based on Stories of Canadian Muslim Youth

YCAR is pleased to support the launch of the Tessellate Institute‘s Neglected Voices Curriculum Pack.  Based on the stories of Muslim youth, the curriculum pack is designed as a resource for teachers to tackle subjects relating to marginalization, discrimination, and alienation.  The curriculum pack is based on four short films of Canadian Muslim youth speaking […]

Subscribe to YCAR’s New YouTube Channel

Our new YouTube channel offers audio and video recordings of a selection of lectures, roundtables and presentations organized by the YCAR community.  Presenters include YCAR associates as well as guest speakers from other universities and community organizations.  Subscribe to YCAR’s YouTube Channel to stay up to date on our latest recordings.

New Asia Colloquia Paper by Yen Le Espiritu | Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and California: Connecting the Dots of U.S. Military Empire

Based on YCAR’s 2015 Asia Lecture, our latest Asia Colloquia Paper  by Yen Le Espiritu examines how military colonialism in the Asia Pacific region enabled the construction of the United States as a “refuge” for Vietnamese refugees.  Using the example of the Vietnam war, she elaborates on her conceptualization of “militarized refuge” to show how U.S. imperialism […]

Graduate Associate Publication | The Stethoscope: A Tool of Nurses’ Trade since the 1930s

In a blog post published on Echoes and Evidence: Nursing History and Health Policy, Lydia Wytenbroek writes about the history of nurses using the stethoscope in response to the recent controversy over a contestant at the Miss America Pageant wearing a stethoscope as part of her performance monologue on her experiences as a nurse. Read the full […]

Faculty Associate Publication | Integrative multiplicity through suburban realities

In their latest publication in Urban Geography, Ranu Basu (Associate Professor, Geography, York University) and Robert S. Fiedler explore “integration” as a concept from the perspective of displaced migrants in the context of public spaces in Scarborough.  The authors shift discussions on integration beyond a framework of multiculturalism and settlement and conceptualize the idea of “integrative […]

YCAR Associate Sashar Zarif’s dance theatre presents Sufi and Shamanic performance

Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre presents Moving Memories: Tracing experience through the Dance of Mugham June 17 – 19, 2016 | Aki Studio, Toronto Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre proudly presents Moving Memories, an intimate dance experience exploring mystical Sufi and Shamanic traditions of Western and Central Asia through a contemporary lens. For more information and tickets visit […]

New Asia Research Brief | Chinese Lion Dance as a Strategy of Resistance to Racial Discrimination

In our latest Asia Research Brief YCAR research associate, Colin McGuire, writes about the ways in which the Chinese lion dance operates as an embodied form of resistance in the Chinese diaspora in Canada.  Using the example of Toronto’s Hong Luck Kung Fu Club in the Spadina/Dundas Chinatown, McGuire provides an analysis of how music, ritual, dance, and […]