Guns and Manure: Sri Lanka’s Army and Organic Agriculture
Congratulations to GRSJ MA student Upandha Udalagama on their recent article published in The Diplomat, The article is part of her broader thesis examining agricultural policy through a feminist political ecology lens. “I was in Sri Lanka when this transition unfolded, but it took leaving the country to fully explore its deeper implications. This perspective […]
Open Call: GRSJ’s Yao Xiao co-edits Critical Arts Journal Special Issue
GRSJ sessional instructor, Dr. Yao Xiao, is co-editing a special issue of Critical Arts: North South Cultural Media Studies. The deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2025. This special issue is an international collaboration, co-edited by Dr. Yao Xiao at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, with Aizada Arystanbek at the Department […]
Language, culture, and race: an AsianCrit perspective on newcomer Chinese transnational adolescents’ navigation of intersectional discourses in Canadian schools
GRSJ’s Caroline Locher-Lo was recently published in the International Multilingual Research Journal which publishes discussions on bilingualism, multilingualism, dual language, and translanguaging related to linguistics research, language policy, education, and practice. Locher-lo co-authored the paper with Dr. Guofong Li (CRC in Transnational/Global Perspectives on Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth, Language & Literacy […]
The gap between research and practice revisited: Accommodation practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
A belated recognition to GRSJ’s Caroline Locher-lo on this 2023 publication in Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, a publication that publishes research on critical issues that affect the education of children and adolescents in various settings, and on alternative education systems. The paper “The gap between research and practice revisited: Accommodation practices […]
Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds
Congratulations to GRSJ Faculty Associate Renisa Mawani (UBC Sociology) and her co-editors Antoinette Burton and Samantha Frost from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on the publication of Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds (Bloomsbury). The open access collection challenges the idea of human species supremacy that is one of the most persistent fictions at work […]
Pilar Riaño publishes new book: Avanzar a tientas
Congratulations to Dr. Pilar Riaño on the publication of Avanzar a tientas. Memorias, violencias y producción de conocimiento (Universidad de Guadalajara and CALAS Publications), The Spanish-language publication, is available here. In Avanzar a tientas, Dr. Riaño interrogates the dynamic field of memory, its languages, initiatives, and disputes in the afterlife of mass violence. In particular, she examines the impact […]
Drag as Alabama Folklife
Dr. Isabel Machado has a new essay in Tributaries, the journal of the Alabama Folklife Association. This publication is part of Machado’s 2023/24 The Alabama Folk Life Associations Cauthen Fellowship, which is awarded to individuals to conduct original research on an Alabama folk tradition, defined as a tradition passed down through the generations or shared […]
Open Access Collection: Dr. Sneja Gunew
Taylor and Francis Journals has created an open-access collection of the late Dr. Sneja Gunew’s publications. This collection offers access to publications in Taylor and Francis journals across her research career. The collection’s editor, Dr Paula Muraca (Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne) and advisor Professor Emerita Wenche Ommundsen (University of Wollongong, Australia) shared the […]
Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab
GRSJ Director, Dr. Nora Angeles and Khadija Anjum (PhD candidate, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) have recently published in”Agriculture and Human Values”. The Journal publishes research that critically examines the values, relationships, conflicts and contradictions within contemporary agricultural and food systems and that addresses the impact of agricultural and food related institutions, policies, and practices on […]
The Witch Studies Reader Featuring Isabel Machado Available for Pre-Order
Dr. Isabel Machado has contributed a chapter to The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press). The collection is edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward and will be published in Spring 2025. The publisher is offering a 30% savings on preorders at their website. Use the code E25WTSTR. Mista Boo: Portrait of a Drag Witch […]