Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia

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Critical nationalisms and counterpublics
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$25,000

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Critical nationalisms and counterpublics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Al-Kassim, Dina

Keywords: critical nationalisms; counterpublics; transnationalism; colonialism; imperialism; racism; critical theory; post-colonial theory; sexuality; cultural production; decolonization; world literature; cultural difference; human rights; biopolitics; poetics

$25,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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