Denise Ferreira da Silva on e-flux: 1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value
What if blackness referred to rare and obsolete definitions of matter: respectively, “substance … of which something consists” and “substance without form”? How would this affect the question of value? What would become of the economic value of things if they were read as expressions of our modern grammar and its defining logic of obliteration? Would this expose […]
Reaffirming GRSJ principles amid emboldened public white supremacy
By: Emmanuelle Andrews and JP Catungal September 7, 2017 In light of recent, highly publicized declarations of white supremacy, in Coast Salish territories as in Charlottesville, we at the Social Justice Institute affirm our commitment to anti-racist, feminist, trans, queer and anti-colonial politics, placemaking and knowledge production. We firmly denounce the violent, misogynistic, settler colonial, […]
Channels of Change in South Sudan: Youth Civil Society Organizations and Critical Empathy in Nation-Building
By: Amel Eldihaib. In a context of ethnically divided society, where state is under formation and nation-building is still in the making (like in South Sudan), political and ethnic violence become the order that threat the body politics of the nation. Youth in south Sudan who are always mobilized and labelled by politicians as “defenders […]
Dr. JP Catungal quoted in Macleans article: Same-sex marriages triple in decade since legalization, census finds
While same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for more than 10 years, it’s still relatively new, which may partly explain its growth, said John Paul Catungal, an instructor at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. It has also been a touchstone in the fight for lesbian and […]
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Spotlight: MAYURI SENGUPTA
In many developing countries, national governments have encouraged local management of natural resources, especially forests, with the goal of alleviating poverty and promoting gender equality in local development. However, local participation isn’t always democratic participation, particularly when it comes to gender. 2016-2017 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Mayuri Sengupta is exploring the particular power hierarchies that women […]
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Faculty and students at UBC’s Social Justice Institute are committed to continue to engage in research and teaching designed to contribute to refashioning existing and designing new critical tools that will help us to stop the unfolding of a future of colonial, racial, and sexual violence.
Again and again a question comes back to those of us committed to a vision for social justice that addresses colonial, racial, gender-sexual subjugation.
Congratulations Taq Bhandal in receiving a CIHR Doctoral Award
May 30, 2017 Congratulations to our PhD student, Taq Bhandal, for receiving a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Award: Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships in the amount of $105,000! Dr. Annette Browne serves as Taq’s supervisor. The CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Awards has the […]
A call to Muslim boys and men to fight violence against women
“It’s important that we situate this issue within a broader context whenever we talk about it,” says Ayesha Chaudhry, associate professor of Islamic studies and gender studies at UBC and co-author of the paper. “Domestic violence isn’t just a Muslim problem.”
‘The White Saree’ by Shruti Rao
It’s strange watching this woman, my grandmother of the hunched back, chinaware bones and narrowing shoulders, this renegade who can count one more generation she has married off for every fold in her saree. All her expertise of life, death, marriage, rituals, food, kids, Vedanta now counter-balanced by finding late in her life its equal […]
Congratulations Ayesha S. Chaudhry – Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice
May 15, 2017 Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, and Associate Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, has been awarded a Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice. The Canada Research Chairs Program has awarded […]