Three YCAR faculty-led research projects received funding earlier this fall through YCAR’s Canada-China Initiatives Fund. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, their global reach, their linkages with Canada, or the experiences of […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, Robin Verrall (PhD, Political Science) explores how national identity is constructed and contested in visual media in Taiwan. He argues that there is no essential national identity, and that there is only a continual process of imagining and reimagining the national community. Download issue 46 here: https://yorku.ca/research/ycar/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/YCAR_ARB0046-Verrall.pdf Asia Research […]
The Re[new}All online exhibition continues its online run! Opening in late September, the various exhibits (including work by YCAR Associates) are still accessible here: https://sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/events/renewall/ The exhibition Re[new]All is held as an inaugural partnership between Sensorium and the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. The project is an exhibition in […]
This Asia Research Brief, previously published in English, is now available in a Tagalog translation. Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation by thousands of urban poor near Manila in March 2017 who claimed idle government housing as their own. It examines the impacts of increasingly neoliberal policies and practices on social […]
A photo series by Filipina nurses, personal support workers, and in-home caregivers, Matatag is an exhibit in the windows of A Space Gallery that runs from 20 October 2021 to January 2022. Using photovoice—a participatory arts-based research method in partnership with Gabriela-Ontario and Migrant Resource Centre Canada—care workers captured everyday moments of struggle and strength […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Joseph Fiumara (Cinema and Media Studies) proposes that radical change is occurring within the anime industry and that this change has also begun to shift what kind of anime are being produced—a movement he calls “Empathic Anime.” It is characterized by the empathy with which staff approach their work, […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Harini Sivalingam (Socio-legal Studies) examines forced migration from the ground up, premised on the narratives of forced migrants and their experiences fleeing their homelands, their journeys to seek safety and security, and their reception by state actors and systems upon their arrival. She uses the arrival of Tamil maritime […]
Congratulations to our Graduate Associates who have recently completed their degrees. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Asma Atique, PhD, Osgoode Hall Law School | Just Greening the Gulf: Sustaining Justice for Migrant Workers Sanjukta Banerjee, PhD, Humanities | Translating Mediation in Travel Writing: India in Pierre Sonnerat’s Voyage aux Indes […]
Congratulations to our Associates who received funding as part of the recently announced 2020 Insight and Partnership Grant competitions, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Xueqing Xu (DLLL) | ApplicantDaily narratives of the Chinese Diaspora in Canada: The Chinese Times (1910–1992, Vancouver) Lalaie Ameeriar (Anthropology) | Applicant Maternal mortality, BIPOC […]
By Zahra Nader (Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies) In Afghanistan, being a journalist is a challenging job; it is even harder to be a female journalist in a country often ranked as the worst place to be a woman. I know this from experience. Before coming to Canada, I was a journalist for local and […]