Ken MacDonald, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Resilient Urban Communities & Local Food Systems after COVID-19: Developing Knowledge Partnerships Beyond the Pandemic
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$199,755
Tasting the global city: multicultural histories of Toronto's cuisines
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$143,720
Foodways: diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$24,170

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Resilient Urban Communities & Local Food Systems after COVID-19: Developing Knowledge Partnerships Beyond the Pandemic

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Sharma, Jayeeta

Keywords: urban food systems; resiliency; sustainability; local communities; global knowledge sharing; digital infrastructure; public dissemination

$199,755

Tasting the global city: multicultural histories of Toronto's cuisines

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pilcher, Jeffrey

Keywords: food studies; multiculturalism; urban studies; immigrant entrepreneurship

$143,720

Foodways: diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

Keywords: diaspora; transnationalism; food; identity; cultural politics; consumption; sensory experience

$24,170

Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

Keywords: markets; bazaars; exchange; modernity; consumption; identity; e-commerce; migration; diaspora; transnationalism; place; creativity; virtuality

$18,000

Memories of Tibet: transnationalism and transculturation in the production of collective identity in Northern Pakistan

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

Keywords: identity politics; cultural identity; transnationalism; transculturation; cultural politics of place; representational practice; cultural production; tibet studies; baltistan studies; pakistan studies

$62,613

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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