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When Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan landed in Vancouver 25 years ago from Malaysia, she was told her foreign credentials would make it hard to find employment as a social worker and was encouraged to apply for minimum wage jobs. In this episode, Sobhana is in conversation with Am Johal about the joy of finding community in a new place — and the barriers to employment she experienced as a newcomer to Canada.Sobhana tells stories from her journey as a social worker and public servant, sharing how her dedication to service and relationship-building led her to her current role as SFU’s Associate Vice-President, External Relations, where she liaises with governments and communities to help facilitate social inclusion and reconciliation initiatives at the university.
Author (aut): Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-11-24
Barbara Holland is a leading community engagement scholar who has done extensive research in the areas of organizational change in higher education, service learning, and community-university partnerships. In this episode, she is in conversation with host Am Johal about the shifting landscape of community engagement and embedding engagement in the culture of the urban university as a method of scholarship, teaching, and learning.
Author (aut): Barbara Holland, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-11-26
Below the Radar checks in with Simon Fraser University's recently installed president and vice-chancellor, Joy Johnson. Stepping into her new role in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joy speaks to how SFU is working to meet the current challenges it is facing, from adapting to online learning and an added strain on mental health, to addressing systemic racism and inequality within the university and beyond.In this episode, Joy shares her vision for a more equitable, inclusive, and connected SFU, centering the student experience and community partnerships. We hear about some of Joy's hopes for SFU's future medical school and the proposed Burnaby Mountain gondola. She also speaks about her background as a nurse and public health researcher interested in the social determinants of health.Resources:— About Joy Johnson: https://www.sfu.ca/pres/the-president/about-joy.html— Joy Johnson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjoyjohnson— "SFU names Joy Johnson as its 10th president and vice-chancellor" via SFU News: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/01/joy-johnson-named-sfus-10th-president.html— "Coast Salish motifs at the heart of new SFU chancellor and president regalia" via SFU News: http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/10/coast-salish-motifs-at-the-heart-of-new-sfu-chancellor-and-presi.html— Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at SFU: https://www.sfu.ca/edi.html— Burnaby Mountain Gondola: https://www.sfu.ca/gondola.html
Author (aut): Joy Johnson, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2021-01-19
Below the Radar checks in with Simon Fraser University's recently installed president and vice-chancellor, Joy Johnson. Stepping into her new role in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joy speaks to how SFU is working to meet the current challenges it is facing, from adapting to online learning and an added strain on mental health, to addressing systemic racism and inequality within the university and beyond.In this episode, Joy shares her vision for a more equitable, inclusive, and connected SFU, centering the student experience and community partnerships. We hear about some of Joy's hopes for SFU's future medical school and the proposed Burnaby Mountain gondola. She also speaks about her background as a nurse and public health researcher interested in the social determinants of health.Resources:— About Joy Johnson: https://www.sfu.ca/pres/the-president/about-joy.html— Joy Johnson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjoyjohnson— "SFU names Joy Johnson as its 10th president and vice-chancellor" via SFU News: https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/01/joy-johnson-named-sfus-10th-president.html— "Coast Salish motifs at the heart of new SFU chancellor and president regalia" via SFU News: http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/10/coast-salish-motifs-at-the-heart-of-new-sfu-chancellor-and-presi.html— Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at SFU: https://www.sfu.ca/edi.html— Burnaby Mountain Gondola: https://www.sfu.ca/gondola.html
Author (aut): Joy Johnson, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2021-01-19
SFU librarian Baharak Yousefi joins Am Johal on Below the Radar to discuss critical librarianship, interrogating the entrenched systems and structures of libraries. She speaks to issues around the way librarians are schooled, the commodification of knowledge, and the need to make libraries welcoming spaces to all.Baharak also shares her love of books and culture that brought her to librarianship and talks about the popular One Book One SFU events she planned and hosted through the SFU Library. Am also asks her about her fondness for Vancouver’s West End and the neighbourhood’s quirky design gems.
Author (aut): Barharak Yoursefi, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-12-03
In this episode of Below the Radar, Brandon Yan, the executive director of Out on Screen, joins producers Fiorella Pinillos and Paige Smith to discuss his work in film education dialogue and fostering inclusive spaces for youth. Brandon speaks to supporting queer and trans youth in schools by bringing queer joy into classrooms, working collaboratively to push forward policy change, and reimagining the future of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Brandon also shares his path of embracing his identity as a queer, mixed-race person, and his experience running for city council in Vancouver.
Author (aut): Brandon Yan, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-12-10
“Cities are fundamentally about people.” Mary Rowe joins Below the Radar to discuss the pandemic moment as an opportunity to reimagine how we live together in an urban environment. She and Am Johal are in conversation about the urgent need to build social solidarity around collective disaster, honing in on how people are in relationship with their community at the hyperlocal level.As the president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, Mary’s recent work is concentrated on urban planning in disaster times, building social infrastructure, and helping cities recover and re-emerge from COVID-19 more connected, more resilient, and more empowered to effect change locally.
Author (aut): Mary Rowe, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-12-15
Below the Radar explores immigration and connecting to community and social justice movements through art with Adriana Contreras, a visual artist and storyteller who captures dialogues as they unfold as a graphic recorder with Drawing Change.Adriana is in conversation with co-hosts Fiorella Pinillos and Melissa Roach about her journey with visual arts and dance as a first generation immigrant from Colombia. Adriana tells us how her love for the arts has shaped her career, sharing her experiences of working as a visual artist and communicator at the intersection of art and social change.
Author (aut): Adriana Contreras, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Fiorella Pinillos, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-12-22
Selena Couture is a settler scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton/ Treaty 6 territory and Métis Region No.4. Her projects engage with theatrical and cultural performances including speech acts, place naming, Indigenous language revitalization and phenomenological spatial orientations. Through these elements she explores relationships to land: deconstructing conceptions of settler colonial whiteness and possession while foregrounding the maintenance of Indigenous places through performance. Publications include, Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver's Stanley Park (McGill-Queen's UP Indigenous and Northern Series, 2020) and On this Patch of Grass: City Parks and Occupied Lands (Fernwood 2018).She holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, "Decolonizing Performative Reenactments of History" which engages with the historical narratives created in rural BC, taking into account the lack of treaties to govern settler access to the land; the continuously present Indigenous protection of unceded territories despite settler colonial extraction; and the unique relation to the lands expressed through Indigenous languages.She is also a co-director of the Ecologies research cluster in the SSHRC Partnership Grant "Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices," (2020-2027) led by Dr. Laura Levin of York University. The project is developing a network across the Americas of organizations, artists, activists and scholars actively working in and with hemispheric performance to share strategies and resources. Her research in this project focuses on human and environmental effects of transnational resource extraction, as well as site-based performance strategies of refusal that address urban, environmental, and spatial politics.Her research practice responds to the growing crisis of global warming, develops a wider collaborative network and expands efforts to create responsible relations with Indigenous people, lands and all other-than-human beings.Resources:— Against the Current and Into the Light: https://www.mqup.ca/against-the-current-and-into-the-light-products-9780773559219.php — UBC's First Nations and Endangered Languages Program: https://fnel.arts.ubc.ca/— Inventing Stanley Park by Sean Kheraj: https://www.ubcpress.ca/inventing-stanley-park— The Archive and the Repertoire by Diana Taylor: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-archive-and-the-repertoire— The Native Brotherhood of British Columbia: https://www.nativebrotherhood.ca/— Ashes on the Water: A Podplay Video: https://vimeo.com/27876873— The Road Forward by Marie Clement
Author (aut): Selena Couture, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes
Date created: 2021-12-07
Sheila Block is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sheila's research focuses on Canada's labour markets, public finance, and inequality. She has worked as both a political advisor and a public servant in the Ontario government and as an economist in the labour movement. Sheila has an Honours B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.Jo-Ann Hannah is currently on the board of directors on the BC Financial Services Authority, which regulates pensions, credit unions, mortgage brokers, and trust companies. In 2016, Jo-Ann retired as Director of the Pensions and Benefits Department at Unifor, one of Canada's largest private sector unions. She worked with Unifor for over 25 years and bargained with many of Canada's major corporations: CN Rail, Air Canada, Rio Tinto Alcan. She was invited to speak on pension issues in Canada as well as Europe and the United States. She also represented the union in international work in various countries including Swaziland, Bolivia, and South Africa. Her education includes an MA (Psychology, UBC), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School), and PhD (Education, University of Toronto). Resources: — Sheila's Twitter: twitter.com/SheilaBlockTO— Colour Coded Retirement: www.policyalternatives.ca/ColourCodedRetirement— Sheila's Other Reports & Commentaries: www.policyalternatives.ca/authors/sheila-block— Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Toronto: twitter.com/SheilaBlockTO— BC Financial Services Authority: www.bcfsa.ca/about-us
Author (aut): Sheila Block, Author (aut): Jo-Ann Hanna, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-25
Dr. Kendra Strauss is the Director of the Labour Studies Program and a Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. She is also an Associate Member in the Department of Geography. Kendra is a labour geographer and feminist political economist with research and teaching interests in the areas of precarity, migration, social reproduction, and care labour.Resources: — SFU Labour Studies: www.sfu.ca/labour.html— Kendra's faculty page: www.sfu.ca/labour/about/people/kendra-strauss.html— Workers in the Aging City research project with Dr. Feng Xu: www.sfu.ca/eldercareworkers/project.html— Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — BC Office: www.policyalternatives.ca/offices/bc— Women, Work, More series: www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-comm…omen-work-more.html
Author (aut): Kendra Strauss, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-11-23
Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar, organizer and co-founder of Justice for Migrant Workers and Assistant Professor in Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has worked with migrant farmworkers for two decades across rural Canada, Mexico and Guatemala. She has mobilized her research in various venues such as the UN in New York, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and collaborated in various multidisciplinary projects to amplify the voices of migrant workers. Her research has focused on the experiences of Mexican migrant women who forge transnational livelihoods between Canada and Mexico. Currently, she is conducting research on the effects of the pandemic on migrant farmworkers within a transnational perspective.Resources:Evelyn's Twitter: twitter.com/professor_evyJustice For Migrant Workers: harvestingfreedom.org/who-we-are/Justice For Migrant Workers on Twitter: twitter.com/j4mwCODEMUH: codemuh.hn/El Contrato film: www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/Migrant Dreams film: www.tvo.org/video/documentaries…ams-feature-version'Contestations of the Heart' essay: www.inderscience.com/storage/f101237925168114.pdf 'Between Hearts and Pockets' essay: doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2013.834131'The Other Side of el Otro Lado' essay: doi.org/10.1086/605483
Author (aut): Evelyn Encalada Grez, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-18
Amanda Watson is an author, lecturer, researcher, and mother of two. Her new book, The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety, is available from UBC Press. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, and has a focus on feminist teaching and learning. Amanda teaches and studies theories of labour, capitalism, motherhood, care, representation, and popular culture. She also writes opinions for newspapers and magazines. Her next book project explores the politics of the BirthStrike movement for climate justice. Resources:— The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in an Age of Anxiety: www.ubcpress.ca/the-juggling-mother— Amanda's website: www.amandadwatson.com/— Amanda Watson & the birthstrike movement: www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropol…on-sshrc-grant.html
Author (aut): Amanda Watson, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng
Date created: 2021-11-15
Lama Mugabo is a Community Planner with twenty years of progressive leadership experience. In 2005, Mugabo co-founded BBR – Building Bridges with Rwanda, a non-profit organization designed to create a platform for collaboration between international volunteers and Rwandan people who are working to rebuild their society. At Hogan's Alley Society, Lama coordinates community engagement activities that offer opportunity for members of Diaspora, to build community locally and globally.Resources:— Hogan's Alley Society: www.hogansalleysociety.org/— Building Bridges with Rwanda: www.bbrwanda.org/— Carnegie Community Action Project: www.carnegieaction.org/— Raise the Rates: www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRatesBc/— SFU Institute of Diaspora Research & Engagement: www.sfu.ca/diaspora-institute.html— Remember Rwanda 25 Legacy Project: give.sfu.ca/ways-to-give/fund/rr25-legacy-project
Author (aut): Lama Mugabo, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-11-02
Andrea Creamer is a renter, worker, community organizer, and interdisciplinary artist. She is interested about the intersection of politics, urbanization, community-based art practices, and is invested in creating equitable opportunities for systemic and social change through the arts. Andrea holds a Master's of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA from Simon Fraser University. Her art practice reflects on forms of protest, the mechanisms that produce social spaces, and the ephemeral and always shifting character of socially-based practices. She currently lives in Tkaranto/Toronto with her elderly cat, Goldie.Resources:— The Toast Collective: http://thetoast.org/— The Arts and Cultural Workers Union: https://www.valucoop.ca/acwu— Anti-Fascist Karaoke Lounge Party (Access Gallery, 2018): https://accessgallery.ca/event/anti-fascist-karaoke-lounge-party-film-screenings— Burnaby Primary Care Networks: https://burnabypcn.ca/— Burnaby Community Fridge (now at SFU Burnaby!): https://burnabypcn.ca/allied-health/fridge/
Author (aut): Andrea Creamer, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-10-26
Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Beyond her academic work she works as an educator, labour organizer, and community activist. Her activism and academic work focus on the intersections of gender, labour, and race in late capitalism, as well as investigating Canadian petro-capitalism from a socialist feminist perspective.Resources:— Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: www.policyalternatives.ca/— SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative: www.sfu.ca/ceri.html— Progressive Economics Forum: www.progressive-economics.ca/— Centre for Future Work: www.futurework.org.au/
Author (aut): Massie, Alicia, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-20
Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is Visiting Faculty at the Digital Democracy Institute, School of Communication, SFU.Alberto's current research is divided into three main strands: a theoretical inquiry into contemporary authoritarian trends and their dis/analogies with their historical predecessors, culminating in the forthcoming book Late Fascism (Verso, 2021); the study of tragedy as a framework through which to understand political action and its discontents, from decolonisation to environmentalism; and the development of 'real abstraction' as a heuristic for the analysis contemporary capitalism, notably in its nexus with processes of racialisation. As the series editor of The Italian List for Calcutta-based publisher Seagull books, Alberto's research is also concerned with the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism and critical theory.Resources:— Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought: cpct.uk/about/— Seagull Books: www.seagullbooks.org/our-translator…berto-toscano/— Digital Democracies Institute: digitaldemocracies.org/— The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze: www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403997807— Fanaticism: www.versobooks.com/books/2475-fanaticism— Cartographies of the Absolute: www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/…he-absolute— Wolfen movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46RneepoxQ— Pli journal: plijournal.com/
Author (aut): Alberto Toscano, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-15
Javier Campos earned his Architecture Degree from the University of British Columbia after having completed an undergraduate degree in Art History. Previously he was at Acton Ostry Architects where, as lead designer, his projects were widely published and garnered numerous awards — including Canadian Architect and Lieutenant Governor Medals in Architecture. His work adopted a green agenda early and has included off the grid projects since 2001. He became LEED certified in 2004. Javier is also involved in Public Art and has won several competitions with Artist Elspeth Pratt in Vancouver. Javier served on the board of the Contemporary Art Gallery for six years and as well being the current president of the Heritage Vancouver Society, where he established an award winning outreach series on issues around Heritage.Resources:— Heritage Vancouver: http://heritagevancouver.org/— Shaping Vancouver series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClA0Wn2xodnRMrdH3shZSwQ— Campos Studio: https://www.campos.studio/— Sen̓áḵw: https://senakw.com/— Heritage Action Plan: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/heritage-action-plan-emerging-directions-june-2017-open-house-information-displays.pdf
Author (aut): Javier Campos, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-06
Paul Taylor is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto, and a lifelong anti-poverty activist. Growing up materially poor in Toronto, Paul has used his experience to fuel a career focused not just on helping others, but dismantling the beliefs and systems that lead to poverty and food insecurity, including colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchal structures.Each year, FoodShare provides a quarter million people with fresh produce, and fights for their right to have access to "good" food on their own terms, rather than charity on someone else's. Paul's experience includes Executive Director roles at Gordon Neighbourhood House and the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House. He has also chaired the British Columbia Poverty Reduction Coalition, served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and as Vice-Chair of Food Secure Canada.Resources:— Paul Taylor's website: https://www.paultaylorto.com/— FoodShare: https://foodshare.net/— Gordon Neighbourhood House: https://gordonhouse.org/— Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House: https://www.dtesnhouse.ca/— Nourish Scotland: https://www.nourishscotland.org/ — Global Solidarity Alliance: https://rightsnotcharity.org/ — WhyHunger: https://whyhunger.org/
Author (aut): Paul Taylor, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-06-29
Renée Sarojini Saklikar is a poet and lawyer who lives in Vancouver. She is the author of the ground-breaking poetry book, children of air india, about the bombing of Air India Flight 182 which won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and is the co-author, with Dr. Mark Winston, of the poetry and essay collection, Listening to the Bees, winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award, Environment/Ecology. She is the curator of the poetry reading series Lunch Poems at SFU and in 2021 curated Vancouver's first free Poetry Phone, 1-833-POEMS-4-U. Renée Sarojini is an instructor for SFU and VCC and was the first poet laureate for the City of Surrey, (2015-2018). Her work has been adapted for opera, visual art and dance. Her epic fantasy series in verse, THOT J BAP: The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns, is about a female hero battling to save a planet ravaged by climate change, launched in 2021.Resources: Bramah and The Beggar Boy: https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9780889714021children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections: https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/renee-sarojini-saklikar/products/9780889712874Listening to the Bees: https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/renee-sarojini-saklikar/products/9780889713468SFU's Writer Studio: https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/programs/the-writers-studio-creative-writing-certificate.htmlAir India Redacted: https://summit.sfu.ca/item/20083THOT J BAP: https://thotjbap.com
Author (aut): Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Melissa Roach, Author (aut): Paige Smith, Author (aut): Kathy Feng, Author (aut): Alyha Bardi, Author (aut): Steve Tornes
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