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1:30pm - 3:00pm
1.1.1: Disabilities in International Development Research Location: SJA-349E
Navigating Marriage Decisions: Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Ghanaian Society
Murtala Labaran Gariba 1 , Agartha Pokuaah Aduse Oduro2 , Sabiu Mohammed Gariba3 , Ibrahim Mohammed Gariba4
1: Chereponi District Assembly, Ghana, University for Development Studies, Ghana;
2: Achiase District Assembly, Ghana;
3: University for Development Studies, Ghana;
4: University of Pardubice, Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
Post-Secondary Experiences of International Students: Voices of Disabled Women from the Global South Studying in Canada
Linh Thuy Dang , Rosemary Condillac
Brock University, Canada
3:30pm - 5:00pm
1.2.1.: Decolonization in practice Location: SJA-349E Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
Decolonizing Participation though Silence
Neha Soni Arora , Kristina Berynets
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Decolonizing the Field of Project Management: Decentering Western Dominance in ‘Development’ Projects
Ruby Dagher
University of Ottawa, Canada
Decolonizing Narratives: Exploring the Canadian Aporetic Condition in International Development
John Wilfred Bessai
Okanagan College, Canada
8:30am - 10:00am
2.1.2: Decolonization in practice II Location: SJA-349E Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
Youth Leadership in Addressing Environmental Racism and Advancing Climate Justice: Pathways to Decolonial Futures
Adebowale Kazeem Yusuf
Brandon University, Canada
Examining Rwanda’s development through the Homegrown Solutions framework: A case for decolonizing development in Africa.
Regine Uwibereyeho King 1 , Rita Yembilah 2 , Nimo Kabore3 , Susan Lee McGrath4
1: University of Calgary;
2: University of Calgary/Yembilah Evaluation And Research Services;
3: Carleton University;
4: York University
The Critique Western Development Rethinking Indigenous African Cultural Knowledges in Community Development: A Decolonial Dialectic
Ahmed Ilmi
University of Toronto Scharbrough, Canada
Unsettling coloniality of power through decolonial partnership: Perspectives from the global South
Xuan Thuy Nguyen 1 , Dana Corfield 2
1: Carleton University;
2: York University
10:30am - 12:00pm
2.2.1: Climate change and adaptation Location: SJA-349E
Le rôle de l’adoption des innovations dans la résilience climatique en agriculture : le cas de la filière manioc au Cameroun
Jean Charles Ononino
University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
Global Aspirations in a Warming World: Small States and the Cooling Dilemma in International Development
Hassan Bashir
Carleton University, Canada
Embodied uncertainties of aquaculture in a changing climate
Bernadette Resurrección , Cheyenne Kammerer
Queen's University, Canada
Extraction, Development, and Capitalist Accumulation in a Globalized World
Holly Cass Ferron
University of Ottawa, Canada
1:30pm - 3:00pm
2.3.1 Location: SJA-349E
Mapping the quotidian relations of uneven development: The case of Craft in Jamaican Tourism
Tka Pinnock
York University, Canada
Navigating Dreams and Realities: Rural Youth Aspirations in Colombia's Licit and Illicit Economies
Maria Margarita Fontecha 1 , Silvia Sarapura2
1: University of Guelph, Canada;
2: University of Guelph, Canada
Scaling deep through transformative learning in public sector innovation labs: The roles of civil society in Jamaica-Colombia cultural policy cooperation
Roshane O. Miller 1,2
1: York University, Canada;
2: Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University
8:30am - 10:00am
3.1.1: Feminist Perspectives Location: SJA-349E Chair: Rebecca Tiessen
The contribution of feminist institutionalism to the study of transitional justice processes in Southern contexts
Safo Musta
University of Ottawa, Canada
WPS in the Digital Age: Investigating AI and International Cybersecurity Policy
Holly Cass Ferron
University of Ottawa, Canada
Can feminist aid and mining extractivism be reconciled? Exploring Canada’s role in Peru
Véronique Plouffe
University of Ottawa, Canada
10:30am - 12:00pm
3.2.1: Focus on Pedagogy Location: SJA-349E Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
Colonial Amnesia and Fragmented Narratives: The Importance of Beginnings and Foundations in Canadian Undergraduate International Development Studies Reading Lists
Alexandra Hannah Wilson
University of Ottawa, Canada
The Epistemic Landscape of Expertise: Canadian Undergraduate International Development Studies Reading Lists and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Alexandra Hannah Wilson
University of Ottawa, Canada
Shaping an Image of International Development in the 21st Century: The Perspective of Metamodernism
Mohammad Muaz Jalil
University of Ottawa, Canada
Student Perceptions on the Integration of Indigenous Content in the Undergraduate Curriculum in the School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS) at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa)
Rhiannon Dominique Careri
University of Ottawa, Canada
1:30pm - 3:00pm
3.3.1 Location: SJA-349E
Borderless Solidarities: Transnational Trauma, Mental Ecologies, and Diasporic Resistance in Bangladeshi-Canadian Feminist Movements
Chair(s): Mustahid Husain (University of Toronto, Canada)
Presentations of the Symposium
As above
Nahida Sobhan1 , Fahim Quadir2 1 Bangladesh High Commission in Canada, 2 Queen's University
3:30pm - 5:00pm
3.4.1 Location: SJA-349E
Rethinking the “Agrarian Question” Through Cross-Regional Comparative Analysis
Chair(s): Patrick Clark (St. Mary's University, Canada)
Presentations of the Symposium
"Embedded Neoliberalism" and the Resugence of Agricultural Cooperativism in Peru
Patrick Clark St. Mary's University
Producer Well-Being in the Face of Production Squeezes in the Costa Rican Coffee Sector
Marcela Ortiz Imlach York University
The Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta Ugrahan and the Agrarian Question in India
Paramjit Singh York University