Curator
Shahrzad Mojab ~ Research Director
Professor Emerita at the Women and Gender Studies Institute and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
My areas of research and teaching are educational policy studies; gender, state, diaspora and transnationality; women, war, militarization and violence; women, war and learning; feminism, anti-racism, colonialism and imperialism; and Marxist-feminism, revolutionary learning and praxis. My approach to the study of race, gender, class, nationality, transnationality, and ethnicity is informed by feminist and dialectical historical materialism. I am critical of theoretical frameworks which treat race, gender, and class atomistically and reduce them to the domains of discourse, text, language, or identity. I critique monopolies of knowledge and power in education and advocate dialogical and inclusive pedagogical practices.
In recent years, I have attempted to diversify the dissemination of my research and have used dance, drama, storytelling, film, and visual arts to capture the experience, desires, and dreams of political prisoners and activists. I have produced films, worked on dance projects, and curated an exhibition to speak about the experience of women encountering patriarchal capitalist state violence in prisons and refugee camps. These projects were funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Arts Council.
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