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Dr Sylvia Bawa is a global sociologist and tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ in Canada with expertise in human rights, development, gender and globalization. With immense experience working with international and local organizations and groups on development, social justice and human rights issues, her expertise in these areas have been recognized through numerous research awards. With over 15 years of experience in conducting exceptional qualitative research on the aforementioned areas, she has led and currently co-leads international collaborative research projects on human rights, truth and reconciliation and gender and development. Her publications appear in high impact journals such as Third World Quarterly<\/em>, African Identities<\/em>, Qualitative Research Report<\/em>, Development in Practice<\/em>, Canadian Journal of African Studies<\/em> as well chapters in the International Human Rights of Wome<\/em>n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Part of the International Human Rights Series) and The Palgrave Handbook of African Women\u2019s Studies<\/em> (Springer Major Reference Works Series).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1081,922,921],"tags":[272,214,55,304,98,347,77,66],"class_list":["post-2020","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","category-member-facultyfellow","category-genders-and-sexualities","category-theories-and-methodologies-including-oral-sources-and-digital-humanities","tag-decolonization","tag-development","tag-gender","tag-globalization","tag-human-rights","tag-post-colonialism","tag-social-justice","tag-sociology"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1081,"label":"Faculty Fellow"},{"value":922,"label":"Genders and Sexualities"},{"value":921,"label":"Theories and Methodologies, including oral sources and Digital Humanities"}],"post_tag":[{"value":272,"label":"Decolonization"},{"value":214,"label":"Development"},{"value":55,"label":"Gender"},{"value":304,"label":"Globalization"},{"value":98,"label":"Human rights"},{"value":347,"label":"Post colonialism"},{"value":77,"label":"Social justice"},{"value":66,"label":"sociology"}]},"featured_image_src_large":[],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}