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Ranu Basu is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at 91ÑÇÉ«. Her research and teaching interests relate to the geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; anti-imperialism and post-colonial geographies; geopolitics of subaltern cosmopolitanism, critical geographies of education; and spatial methodologies including critical GIS.

Her projects have explored the impacts of neoliberalization of educational restructuring in Ontario; multiculturalism in schools through questions of 'integration'; social sustainability and the meaning of public space as it relates to migrants; and politics of infrastructural provision. Her work extends internationally to Cuba and India and she is PI on a SSHRC funded project entitled: Subalterity, education and welfare cities that historically traces the geopolitical impacts of displacement on cities and schools; and the everyday politics of resistance in Havana, Toronto and Kolkata. 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:Ìý°ä³Ü²ú²¹

Keywords: power, space and activism; anti-imperialism and post-colonial geographies; geopolitics of subaltern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; and spatial methodologies including critical GIS.

Agnès Berthelot-Raffard is an Associate Professor of critical disability studies at 91ÑÇÉ«. As a feminist political philosopher, Agnès Berthelot-Raffard's research interests are broad and diverse. She is deeply engaged in Black African-American and Afro-Caribbean feminist epistemologies, gender-inclusive social innovation and community care in the Caribbean, and the political and epistemological implications of the Haitian Revolution.

Throughout her career, she has delivered more than  92 talks, including 55 as a guest speaker, and published several papers solo-authored in political philosophy, philosophy of public health, critical disability studies, and feminist philosophy. She is the co-editor of Penser le sujet femme noire francophone (2021), Recherches Féministes, 32 (2).

Since September 2023, she has also been a regular columnist on Radio Canada Ontario's  A échelle humaine for the philosophy segment.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, French Guiana.

Keywords: Black women's epistemologies, Ethics of knowledge, Experiential Knowledge in the Caribbeans, Guadeloupe and Martinique politics, gender-inclusive social innovation in health, decolonial thoughts, the Haitian revolution.

I work in the traditions of critical health, social, and policy studies. My research in the social production and developmental origins of health and disease is strongly grounded in my medical training and former clinical practice, and informed by the politics of public policy, the geopolitical economy of health, and medicalization and social control in the health sciences.

Over the years I have used diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer disease, and more recently, Covid-19, as case studies to examine how the social production and developmental origins of health and disease operate. Other intellectual interests include the philosophy and history of science, the critical analysis of discourse, propaganda studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

I have published widely in my areas of expertise in refereed and popular venues, presented at international, national, and regional academic and professional conferences, and served as Editorial Board Member and reviewer of various refereed journals.

My research has been funded by the California Department of Public Health, the California Department of Transportation, the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Cuba, Venezuela

Keywords: political economy of health; global health and the NGO-state-corporate complex; Social and health policy in Cuba and Venezuela; neocolonialism and the left in Latin America

James Corcoran is an Associate Professor of ESL and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. He teaches in the ESL, TESOL, and graduate Applied Linguistics programs. James' research includes investigations into Latin American scholars' research writing beliefs and practices, the impact of plurilingual pedagogies for supporting students' academic literacies, and the lived experiences of English for Academic Purposes practitioners working at Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, and Mexico.

Keywords: Multi/plurilingual education; Scholarly writing for publication; Academic knowledge production; English for specific / academic purposes

Alison Crosby is an Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at 91ÑÇÉ«. Her research and publications use an anti-racist anti-colonial feminist lens to explore survivors’ multifaceted struggles for agency and subjectivity in the aftermath of militarized violence. She is currently completing a book manuscript with Professor M. Brinton Lykes on gender and reparation in Guatemala, based on four years of feminist participatory action research with Mayan women survivors of violence during the armed conflict in Guatemala, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). And with Dr. Malathi de Alwis, she is exploring memorialization as a site of contestation in Guatemala and Sri Lanka in a project entitled The inhabitance of loss: A transnational feminist project on memorialization, funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Guatemala

Keywords: Transitional justice; gender, violence and trauma; memory and memorialization; anti-racist feminist participatory action research

Cristina is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood in the Faculty of Education at 91ÑÇÉ«.  She is also the Pedagogista for the Ontario Centre of Excellence in Early Years and Child Care. Prior to joining 91ÑÇÉ« Cristina was immersed in developing innovative and situated early childhood pedagogies at Capilano University Children centre. The Center is known in the Canadian Early Childhood context as a space for radical reconceptualization of early childhood practices and for research done at the intersection between pedagogy and the arts.

Her research interest addresses the ethical question of living well with others within pedagogical gatherings. She engages with this question by problematizing issues of subjectivity in relation to prescribed practices in education, and by unsettling pedagogies that are based in human supremacy and instrumental-managerial logics. She is interested in the intersection between pedagogy and the arts as an enabling space to rethink the project of the human. In her work as a pedagogista She is interested in the participatory and relational aspects of curriculum making, particularly, when attending to pedagogical relations as something more than child centered. She is interested in conceptualizations that engage with the life of curriculum from tangible and intangible formations.

She is currently a principal investigator in the SSHRC Insight Development Grant Developing Educational Practices and Methodologies to Enhance Young Children's Voices: Mitigating Climate Change Injustice in Andean Communities. She is also  co-investigator in the SSHRC Insight Grant Trasforming Waste Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education, and in the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Exploring Climate Change Pedagogies with Children. The SSHRC projects have a research site in Ecuador that explores what alternative pedagogies might emerged when paying attention on how ancestral relations come to matter in facing 21^st century problemmatics.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Ecuador, Andean Region

Keywords: Pedagogy and pedagogical thought, childhood, curriculum theory, ethics for the anthropocene, pedagogical trajectories, pedagogy and the arts