Updates from SJRI
Studies in Social Justice Special Issue on Mental Health
Deadline: March 06, 2015
Guest Editors: Lacey Croft (York University), Mandi Gray (York University) and Dr. Heidi Rimke (University of Winnipeg)
This special edition of Studies in Social Justice seeks to critically explore the complex relationship between social injustice and the pathologization of individuals. In order to do so, focus will be placed on critical approaches to understanding the power of medicine and psychiatry in modern society. The now commonly held view that some people are ab/normal is the consequence and reflection of the growing cultural authority of the human sciences in everyday life. The question of mental and emotional health/illness will be examined within critical theoretical frameworks that seek to interrogate the medical and psychiatric models of the human sciences broadly conceived.
Please see the call for papers for further information about how to submit proposals.
SJRI MA Fellowship
What: Support research in social justice
How much: $2,000+
Deadline: March 15, 2015
SJRI offers a limited number of SJRI Masters Fellowships to outstanding students pursuing graduate research in the transdisciplinary field of social justice. The purpose of the Fellowship Program is to encourage involvement in SJRI activities throughout the year and to financially support Masters research in social justice. Any student applying for full-time study in a Masters program at Brock University whose anticipated research relates closely to the transdisciplinary field of social justice is eligible to apply. (More info…)
Call for Papers: Consuming Intimacies Symposium
Deadline: April 01, 2015
The Social Justice Research Institute of Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, announces a call for papers and artistic contributions for an upcoming symposium (October 15–16, 2015).
This two-day symposium aims to re-think concepts and practices of intimacy and social justice issues through a wide spectrum of twenty-first-century intimate labours and their associated economies. We envisage two interconnected streams for papers, artistic contributions, and discussions. While underpinned by diverse transdisciplinary approaches and problematics, these two streams share a focus on intimacies and embodiment; entanglements of care, work, consumption, and commodification; varied forms of “global-intimate pairings”; gender, class, and racial inequalities; and attention to matters of epistemic justice and injustice.
Please see the call for papers for further information about abstract submission.
SJRI Postdoctoral Fellowship
What: Support research on anti-austerity and pro-democracy social movements
How much: $40,500+
Deadline: April 15, 2015
The Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, in collaboration with the Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI) of Brock University, invites applicants for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship, renewable for up to two years contingent upon the candidate’s successful application for external funding. The post-doctoral fellow’s research will contribute to understanding the wave of anti-austerity and pro-democracy social movements that appeared in 2011, from the Arab Spring to Occupy, and which continue to erupt around the world. (More info…)
Please note that this is a cost-shared position. If any SJRI-affiliates would like to propose other similar initiatives, we will be happy to consider them. In addition, there are other opportunities to fund/attract fellows. If you have a candidate in mind SJRI’s Projects Facilitator, Rachel Hirsch, can help you (and them) work through some of the external fellowships (e.g., SSHRC, Banting, Fulbright, Trudeau, etc.). Note that these positions are extremely competitive and success is not guaranteed.
Funding Opportunities
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Alternative Funding Sources
German Academic Exchange Service
Niagara Community Foundation Grants Program
Brock's New Funding Opportunity Website
Calls for Papers and Presentations
Open Calls for Participants and Collaborators
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Call for participants: Celebrity activism
Call for participants: Reading women’s memoirs
Upcoming Events
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