Power, Inequalities and Social Justice
This cluster encompasses research in global inequalities, theories of power, capitalism and social theory, social movements and resistance, race and racialization, anti-racism, the political economy and cultural sociology of development, the cultural and economic dimensions of globalization, post-colonialism and de-colonization, the political economy of climate change, the lived experience of inequalities and social justice movements.
Recent Completed Funded Projects
| Roma in Canada: Transnational Peoples, Transnational Practices Cynthia Levine-Rasky (Collaborator) SSHRC IDG 2016-18 |
$55,000 |
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An Ethnography of the Toronto Roma Community
Cynthia Levine-Rasky (PI) Senate Advisory Research Committee 2012-14
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$5,600 |
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Climate Change and Social Conflict in the Himalayan Watershed
Marcus Taylor (PI) SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2011-2014
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$37,120 |
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Raising Insurance Awareness: Insurance, social protection, and risk in agrarian India
Dia Da Costa (PI) Senate Advisory Research Committee 2013
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$9,926 |
| Web Space/Community Space: Developing Qualitative Research for Canadian Roma through Digital Media Cynthia Levine-Rasky (PI) SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2011-2012 |
$17,543 |
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The Work of Theatre in an Age of Precarious Labour
Dia Da Costa (PI) SSHRC RDI Grant 2010-2012
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$32,770 |
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The Work of Theatre in an Age of Precarious Labour
Dia Da Costa (PI) Senate Advisory Research Committee 2010-2011
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$6,473 |
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Who Works for Globalization: A Sociological Analysis of Labour Markets for Labour Intensive Export Industry in Mexico and China
Marcus Taylor (PI) SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2007 – 2011 |
$52,000 |
| Patterns of Solidarity in Contemporary Canadian Activism Richard Day (PI) SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2008-2011 |
$142,000 |
Recent Graduate Theses
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Matsunaga, Jennifer. PhD thesis (2018). Supervisor: Sarita Srivastava.
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| Critical Femininities: The Development and Application of Femme Theory. Hoskin, Rhea. PhD thesis (2018). Supervisor: Annette Burfoot. |
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Saaltink, Robyn. PhD thesis (2018). Supervisor: Annette Burfoot.
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Faculty Experts
| ABRAMS, Thomas Phone: (613) 533-6000 x 36568 Email: thomas.abrams@queensu.ca Research Areas: Disability Studies; Sociological Theory; Social Inequality; Sociology of Health and Illness; Sociology of the Body |
LEVINE-RASKY, Cynthia Phone: (613) 533-6000 x 74485 Email: clr@queensu.ca Research Areas: Race; Ethnicity; Critical Race Theory; Inequality |
| SRIVASTAVA, Sarita Phone: (613) 533-6000 x 75763 Email: sarita@queensu.ca Research Areas: Social Movements; Anti-Racist Theory & Practice; Gender & Race; Sociology of Emotions |
BEAMISH, Rob Phone: (613) 533-6000 x 74478 Email: beamishr@queensu.ca Research Areas: Hegel & Marx; Sociology of the Body & Sport; Early Modernity |
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DAY, Richard |
TAYLOR, Marcus Phone: (613) 533-6000, x 77655 Email: marcus.taylor@queensu.ca Research Areas: Political Economy; Political Ecology; Labour & Livelihoods; Climate Change Adaptation |