economy | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Tka C. Pinnock

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:43:03 +0000

Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at �첥��Ƶ. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, political ecology, globalization and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of life work. Her dissertation project explores the constructions of indigeneity among African-descended marginalized workers as a political-economic response to the conditions of economic development, using the tourism sector in Jamaica as a case study. Pinnock’s community work also gives rise to an interest in diaspora studies and community-based research.

Temitope Oriola

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:40:24 +0000

Temitope Oriola is joint Editor-in-Chief of the African Security journal and associate professor at the University of Alberta. A recipient of the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal (first presented in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin), Oriola’s book Criminal Resistance? The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers is one of a small number of book-length sociological investigations of political kidnapping in the English language. Professor Oriola’s research focuses on policing and use of force by police, terrorism studies and resource-related conflict (involving tactics like political kidnappings). Publications from his research appear in leading scholarly journals, such as Sociology (the flagship journal of the British Sociological Association), the British Journal of Criminology, African Affairs, African Security, Third World Quarterly, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Review of African Political Economy, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, among others. Dr Oriola regularly contributes to public scholarship through public talks, op-eds, media interviews and expert opinions. A decorated researcher and teacher, Professor Oriola is a two-time Carnegie fellow and the 2020 recipient of the Kathleen W. Klawe Prize for teaching excellence. He is past-president of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS).

Keywords: Policing and use of force; terrorism studies; political kidnapping

Fabio Silva Magalhaes

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:33:52 +0000

A native from Bahia, Fabio Silva, aka Fabio Cascadura, is a Brazilian-Canadian MA in History at �첥��Ƶ. His MRP is a biographical study of the slave trader and Luso-Brazilian military officer Caetano Mauricio Machado (c.1750–1807) and his business with Bight of Benin.
His interests encompass economy, ethnography and culture related to Western Africa from the era of slavery to nowadays. He is a Research Assistant for different Digital Humanities projects such as Harriet Tubman Virtual Museum, Freedom Narratives, Anti-Slavery in the News (temporary name) and Equiano's World. Additionally, Fabio also has a strong musical background as a composer, singer and musician leading the band Cascadura for more than 20 years.

Tii Nchofoung

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:18:43 +0000

Tii Nchofoung holds a Master’s of Science in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He also holds a Diploma in Administration from the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), Cameroon. He works as an Administrator with the Ministry of Trade, Cameroon, at the same time, a doctoral candidate in Economics at the University of Dschang. He is also a visiting scholar with the Association of Promoting Women in Research and Development (ASPROWADA), Cameroon. His research works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals among others: Resources Policy, International Economic Journal, Foreign Trade Review, Telecommunications Policy, and International Economics, just to name a few. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, inclusive and sustainable development.

Omosalewa O. Olawoye

rebsl — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:32:48 +0000

Salewa is an Associate Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at �첥��Ƶ. She is the current Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas at �첥��Ƶ, Canada. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Science Consortium (University of Missouri – Kansas City, 2016). Her research focuses on heterodox approaches to sustainable economic development through natural resources, and monetary theory. She takes a bottom-up approach towards money from the individual level to the central bank. Her interdisciplinary research work mainly focuses on these issues in the Sub-Saharan African region. She co-edited the book, Monetary Policy and Central Banking: New Directions in Post-Keynesian Theory (2012) and has an edited book, COVID-19 and the Response of Central Banks: Coping with Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023).

Anna Zalik

rebsl — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:14:26 +0000

Dr Zalik’s research examines and critiques the political economy and political ecology of oil, gas ,and other extractives, with a focus on the merging of corporate security and social welfare interventions in strategic exporters, particularly Nigeria, Mexico, and Canada. Another area of research concerns the relationship between popular resistance to extraction and risk analysis as carried out by global financial institutions, and their relationship to the spatial reorganization of energy and extractive infrastructure.

Patricia Elaine Perkins

rebsl — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 04:53:28 +0000

I am an ecological economist concerned with climate justice: addressing global inequities while advancing the energy transition. I am interested in the political ecology of commons governance, local economies, and energy transitions; feminist theory and practice in times of climate change; and metals and minerals resources for the green transition. I teach courses in Ecological Economics, Community Economic Development, and interdisciplinary qualitative research design. I often work with students pursuing research themes related to climate justice, local economic development, trade and the environment, water management, and feminist ecological economics. I was the Lead Author for the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on "Demand, Services, and Social Aspects of Mitigation."

Violet Ferreira Sutherland

rebsl — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 04:36:01 +0000

Violet Ferreira Sutherland is a doctoral student at �첥��Ƶ. Her research interest is in Policy and Banking in the social-solidarity economy (SSE). Violet holds an MBA in Finance (Western Michigan University, USA), MPhil in Gender and Development Studies (University of the West Indies, Mona), Post Graduate Certification in Project Management (Centennial College, Canada), and a BA in Economics & History (UWI). Violet worked as an Associate Professor in Finance at Northern Caribbean University and Adjunct Lecturer in Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies. She has also worked as a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant for a variety of International Development Agencies such as the European Union, UN Women, UNDP, CARICOM, and the Caribbean Development Bank. More recently, she finalized the National Strategic Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence (2017–2027) in Jamaica, along with its Implementation Plan, which was approved in the Parliament of Jamaica for joint implementation by the Bureau of Gender Affairs and UN Women.

Damilola Adebayo

rebsl — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:15:03 +0000

Dr Damilola Adebayo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History. He is a historian of Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria. His research and teaching interests are at the intersection of three fields namely social and economic history; science, technology and society (STS); and the role of international organizations in the African past.

His current research theme investigates the socioeconomic life of Western technologies in Africa since the 1850s. He is keen to understand the varied contexts within which Western energy, communication, and transportation technologies were adopted, appropriated, hybridized, reinvented, or discarded by the upper class and everyday people; and the ways in which these technologies have been a cause and effect of change in African societies. A product of this theme is his ongoing book project, provisionally entitled “Electric Urbanism: Technology and Socioeconomic Life in Nigeria.”

Dr Adebayo holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge-Africa Scholar (2016–20). His work has been supported by many grants and fellowships.