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Research carried out by SJ@UofT participants

Gender, Racialization and Economic Restructuring:
Social Change in the New Global Order

Contact: Julia Sudbury

This research project aims to examine the gendered and racialized impacts of globalization and economic restructuring in Canada and to identify individual and collective strategies deployed by aboriginal and racialized minority women in the context of these phenomena. In particular, it will explore women's responses to two related phenomenon: the retreat of the state from the sphere of social welfare and the enhancement of the state's social control and punishment functions.

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The Views of Others

Contact: Rinaldo Walcott

Apart from its two dominant cultural identities, Canada is defined by its embrace of multiculturalism - the linguistic, cultural, ethnic and lifestyle diversity that was put forward as a key pillar of Pierre Elliot Trudeau's Just Society in the 1960s. Unlike the melting pot approach that dominates in the United States, Canada's approach to cultural diversity is to celebrate differences. At least, that is how Canadian-style multiculturalism works in theory. In practice, according to Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, "Other Canadians" - those who are set apart from the traditional norm by racial, ethnic, gender and/or sexual difference - continue to live on the margins of Canadian culture.

The goal of his research as Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies is to analyze how notions of community, belonging and identity are being imagined differently and from "other" points of view. The focus of his work will be film, video, new media and music produced by Other Canadians between 1960 and the present. His interest is in how these works have the potential to influence contemporary debates on education, community, globalization and the nation.

 


Social Justice and HIV/AIDS Prevention

Contact: Peter Newman

HIV/AIDS travels along the lines of poverty and disenfranchisement. HIV/AIDS is both the cause of monumental suffering and death and a symptom of deeper social inequalities and prejudices in Canada and around the world. My program of research prioritizes and engages stakeholders from vulnerable communities most affected by HIV/AIDS in the design and development of empirically-based, culturally competent, population specific interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS and to promote health and wellbeing.

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