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Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
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Latest funding
- $1,102,403
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $723,142
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $199,991
Building Indigenous Water Networks (Canada-Colombia)
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices
Keywords: hemispheric performance; the Americas; embodied practice; research-creation; performance studies; activist an political performance; transborder collaborative methods; ecologies; mobilities; oralities; archives; migration; human rights; Indigenous; latinx
Hemispheric Encounters: Developing transborder research-creation practices
Keywords: hemispheric performance; the Americas; embodied practice; research-creation; performance studies; activist an political performance; transborder collaborative methods; ecologies; mobilities; oralities; archives; migration; human rights; Indigenous; latinx
Building Indigenous Water Networks (Canada-Colombia)
Principal investigators: Craft, Aimée E.
Keywords: water; Indigenous laws; knowledge keepers; spiritual sources of law; spirit of water; relationships and responsibilities; sentient beings; physical memory; culture and ceremony; personhood
Transformative memory: strengthening an international network
Principal investigators: Riano-Alcala, Pilar
Keywords: knowledge exchange; transformative memory; responsibility; network
Land, memory and justice: challenges for peace in Colombia
Principal investigators: van Isschot, Luis
Keywords: education; oral history; knowledge mobilization workshop
Canadian consortium on performance and politics in the Americas
Keywords: performance studies; American hemisphere; embodied practice; politics; cultural theory
Research to Action: Improving the Quality of Care and Access to Sexual Health and HIV Services among Youth-Headed Households in Kenya
Principal investigators: Shoveller, Jeannie A; Shannon, Kate
Keywords: Community Engagement; Community-Based Research; Hiv/Aids; Kenya; Sexual Health; Stakeholder Involvement; Youth-Headed Households
The workings of memory in contexts of crisis: a repertoire of memory initiatives
Principal investigators: Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar
Keywords: historical memory; transitional justice; political violence; anthropology of social repair
The possibilities and challenges of a place-based approach to strengthening urban communities: a case study of neighbourhood houses in Vancouver
Principal investigators: Yan, Miu Chung
Keywords: place-based policy; community development; neighbourhood house; settlement house; third sector organization; immigrant integration
Living through Violence: Transitional Justice Considers Everyday Memory Practices and Performances of Social Repair
Principal investigators: Riano-Alcala, Pilar
Keywords: transitional justice; social repair; memory practices; violence; everyday life
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