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The 2017 Housing Occupation in the Philippines: A Counter-Project for Livable Homes and an Alternative Lifeworld
(2020)On 8 March 2017, in what would become known as ‘Occupy Bulacan,’ the urban poor group KADAMAY and thousands of its organized members from different cities and towns occupied 5,300 idled government-built socialized housing ... -
Analyzing Farmer Suicides in India
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Asian Futures, Old and New
(01-01-2014)In this keynote address to the York Centre for Asian Research’s (YCAR) 2013 international graduate student conference, Tania Murray Li tackled a number of entrenched ideas about “Asia” as the shining future, which underpin ... -
Bollywood’s Queer Dostana: Articulating a Transnational Queer Indian Identity and Family in 2008’s Dostana
(01-01-2015)Mainstream ‘masala’ Bollywood films have played a key role in producing and reiterating a nationalist Indian identity centered on the monolithic notion of the Hindu, wealthy and patriarchal India. The result of such ... -
Canada and China at 40
(09-01-2011)"In the 2010 Asia Lecture, Professor Frolic shared unique insights into the evolution of Canada-China relations focusing on the complex negotiations and diplomatic coup by which Canada established diplomatic ties with the ... -
Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
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China’s Bold Economic Statecraft
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Chinese Women’s History: Local or Global?
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Denouncing Party Politics: Indignation and Domestic Confinement in Karachi
(01-01-2013)Delivering her lecture as part of the 2012 York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Urban Asia Series, Dr. Tania Ahmad examines the events surrounding the 12 May 2007 Karachi riots, the discourse of self-described “ordinary ... -
Development Aid and the Rise of New Donors
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Digitizing Ration Cards: Curbing Corruption or Securing Food Security for All?
(2020)Examining India’s attempts to reduce bureaucratic corruption within the systems used to distribute food rations to poor households across the country through the digitization of ration cards. -
Failing State or Fragmented Hegemony: The Political Economy of Change in Pakistan
(01-01-2016)The relationship between the Pakistani state and society is a complex and evolving one. It continues to be shaped by class, national oppression, patriarchy, caste-ism and the myriad legacies of colonialism. In his talk, ... -
Filipino Youth Success in Vancouver
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Floating Points: From Diasporic Spaces to Multicultural Places
(09-01-2011)In the study of Asian immigrant communities and culture in North America, particularly in arts and literature, two intellectual approaches have emerged: the transnational which focuses on country and culture of origin ... -
From Roots to Rhizomes: Hybrid, Diasporic Identities in Hema and Kaushik
(2017-07-20)Rahman analyzes diasporic Indian characters from Jhumpa Lahiri’s book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. Focusing on two characters, Hema and Kaushik, Rahman draws out themes of displacement, genealogy and gender to ...