Abigail Bakan B.A. Hons., M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Professor

(i) Anti-oppression politics and Marxist theory, including intersections of gender, race and class; theories of oppression, alienation and exploitation in political economy; (ii) Political Economy of aging; (iii) Diaspora and Citizenship; (iv) Employment equity policy in Canada

 

Abigail B. Bakan is Professor of Political Studies and Women's Studies at Queen's University, where she has taught as a Queen's National Scholar since 1985.

 

Her publications include: Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (with Daiva K. Stasiulis) (2005); Employment Equity Policy in Canada: An Interprovincial Comparison (with Audrey Kobayashi) (2000); and Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada (co-editor with Daiva Stasiulis) (1997). She has also written extensively in the areas of international political economy and the politics of development. Publications in these areas include: Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left (co-edited with Eleanor MacDonald) (2002); Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative (co-editor with David Cox and Colin Leys) (1993); and Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion (1990). Abigail Bakan has also published articles in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Feminist Review; Atlantis; Labour/Le Travail; Canadian Race Relations Reports; Directions; Public Policy; Science and Society; Studies in Political Economy; North/South; and Asian and Pacific Migration. Her current research is in the areas anti-oppression politics, including the intersections of gender, race and class and theories of oppression; the political economy of aging; and the linkages between diaspora and citizenship.

 

 

Selected publications

 

Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System, (with Daiva K. Stasiulis)

 

Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left, Co-editor (with Eleanor MacDonald)

 

Employment Equity Policy in Canada: An Interprovincial Comparison, (with Audrey Kobayashi)

 

Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada, Co-editor (with Daiva Stasiulis)

 

Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion.

 

 

Course Syllabi
POLS 430 - Topics in Comparative Politics: The Politics of Multiculturalism

 

POLS 443 - Gender and Globalization

POLS 980 - Field Course in Gender and Politics