Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba

Research

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Latest funding

Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Wa Ni Ska Tan: cross-regional research alliance on the implications of hydro development for environments and indigenous communities in Northern Canada
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$2,500,000
Gagieg Mama Weijan: cross-regional research alliance on the implications of hydro development for environments and indigenous communities in Northern Canada
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$20,000

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Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: arts ecology; cultural ecology; indigenous cultural ecologies; creative economy; community engagement; social impacts; vitality index; social network analysis; community; sustainability; artist work patterns

$20,000

Wa Ni Ska Tan: cross-regional research alliance on the implications of hydro development for environments and indigenous communities in Northern Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: hydro development; environmental impacts; socioeconomic and cultural impacts; adaptation; community development; environmental and social justice; social change; action research; knowledge exchange; decolonization; truth and reconciliation; resurgence

$2,500,000

Gagieg Mama Weijan: cross-regional research alliance on the implications of hydro development for environments and indigenous communities in Northern Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: hydro development; environmental impacts; socioeconomic and cultural impacts; adaptation; community development; environmental and social justice; social change; participatory action research; knowledge exchange; decolonization; resurgence

$20,000

From the thirty years' crisis to multipolarity: the evolution of the geopolitical economy of the 21st century world

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Desai, Radhika

Keywords: social justice; Iran; rentier state; poverty; inequality; justice; human rights; women's rights; students; workers unionizing movement; ethnic relations; minorities

$14,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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