Ilan Kapoor - EUC | 91��ɫ

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 Žižek); Participation/Democracy; Celebrity Humanitarianism; Western & Non-Western Political Theory.

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, “Psychoanalysis and International Development”: 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��ɫ: Oxford University Press).

(2020) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

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

(2013) (London & New 91��ɫ: Routledge).

(2008) (London & New 91��ɫ: Routledge).

(2025) “” co-authored with Pieter de Vries, Political

(2025) “I,”&�Բ��;Theory, Culture and Society, 42(2): 1-21 (open access).

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

(2024)&�Բ��;“” co-authored with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Rethinking Marxism, 36(4): 497-506.

(2024)&�Բ��;“” co-authored with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 25(1): 108-13.

(2024)&�Բ��;“” 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 “Global Antiracism” (open access).

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

(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’s 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 ‘Psychoanalysis and Development’.

(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

2025 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
2023 Dean’s Teaching Award, EUC
2022 Dean’s Research Excellence Award, EUC

Courses

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