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Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Ilan Kapoor

Posted on 13 September 2021

Professor, FRSC

Credentials

PhD Political Science , University of Toronto
MA International Affairs , Carleton University
BA (Honours) Economics and Political Science , University of Waterloo

Research Keywords

Critical Development Studies; Postcolonial Theory/Politics; Psychoanalytic Theory/Politics/Marxism; Ideology Critique (Drawing On The Work Of Slavoj 沤i啪ek); Participation/Democracy; Celebrity Humanitarianism; Western & Non-Western Political Theory.

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Contact Information

4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

416 736 2100

ikapoor@yorku.ca 

Research Interests

I teach Global Environmental Politics and International Development Studies from a critical perspective. My research centers on the politicization of global development: showing how it is contested (from the perspective of class, gender, racialization, indigeneity), and opening it up to debate.

Research Projects

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019-23, 鈥淧sychoanalysis and International Development鈥: Aims to investigates how, and to what extent, psychoanalysis intersects with international development; and to identify and analyze examples and case studies of psychoanalytic phenomena from both the Geography/ Development Studies literature and the international programs of development organizations based on field work.

Research Output

(2024)  (co-authored with Gavin Fridell), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers.

(2023)  (co-authored with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries), Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

(2021) (co-authored with Zahi Zalloua; Oxford and New 91亚色: Oxford University Press).

(2020)  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

(2018)  (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press).

(2013)  (London & New 91亚色: Routledge).

(2008)  (London & New 91亚色: Routledge).

(2026) 鈥淪ex, Gender, Agency: Performativity vs. Psychoanalysis,鈥 in The Routledge

International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender, Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler (eds.), London: Routledge.

(2026) 鈥溾澛Philosophy & Social Criticism, 52(8): 1-16 (open access).

(2026) 鈥,鈥澛Political Geography, special issue on 鈥淧sychoanalytic Political Ecology,鈥 vol. 124 (January), 1鈥11 (open access).

(2026) 鈥淒issociation or Disavowal? Or, Where鈥檚 the Fetish?,鈥澛Political Geography, vol. 125 (February), 1鈥6.

(2025) 鈥溾 co-authored with Pieter de Vries,聽Political

(2025) 鈥淚,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Theory, Culture and Society, 42(2): 1-21 (open access).

(2024) 鈥溾 co-authored with Pieter de Vries, Emotion, Space and Society, 53: 1-9 (open access).

(2024)&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾 co-authored with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Rethinking Marxism, 36(4): 497-506.

(2024)&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾 co-authored with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 25(1): 108-13.

(2024)&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾 co-authored with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 25(1): 130-33. For more information: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2024.2329611.

(2024) , co-authored with Sheila L. Cavanagh, Humanities, 13(18): 1-13, special theme issue on 鈥淕lobal Antiracism鈥 (open access).

(2023)   Review of International Studies, 49(3): 346-55 (open access article). Forum on 鈥淩e-imagining International Relations: Proposals for Building a Decolonised Discipline.鈥

(2022) Z. Zalloua and J. Di Leo (eds.), pp. 219-21, London: Bloomsbury.

(2021) J. Collins and S. Sen (eds.), pp. 119-26, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press

(2018)  International Journal of Zizek Studies, 12(1) (online).

(2017) Cold Critique, Faint Passion, Bleak Future: Post-Development鈥檚 Surrender to Global Capitalism, Third World Quarterly, 38(12). For more information: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2017.1334543

(2016)  (with Kent Murnaghan), Bright Lights Film Journal, September 30.

(2015) , Human Geography, 8(3).

(2015) , Third World Quarterly, 36(9).

(2015)  Beaverstock and I. Hay (eds), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

2014 , Third World Quarterly, 35(7): 1120-43. Guest editor of subtheme on 鈥楶sychoanalysis and Development鈥.

(2014) , Third World Quarterly, 35(7): 1117-19.

(2014) , in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, D. Coghlan and M. Brydon-Miller (eds), pp. 737-38, London: Sage.

(2013) Humanitarian Heroes?, in Age of Icons: Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World, G. Fridell and M. Konings (eds), pp. 26-49, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Recognition & Awards

  • 2026 91亚色 Research Award
  • 2025 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
  • 2023 Dean鈥檚 Teaching Award, EUC
  • 2022 Dean鈥檚 Research Excellence Award, EUC

Courses

Course CodeTitle
ENVS 1300Environmental Politics and Justice
ENVS 6156Critical Theories of International Development
ENVS 3340 and ENVS 6175Global Environmental Politics