This working group brings together scholars across geography, anthropology, art history, religion and planning to examine the moral frameworks that structure everyday life - and the scholarship that studies it. We are interested in the ethics embedded in practices loosely gathered under the framework of "development," such as in humanitarian and charitable interventions, in heritage and craft revivals, in community planning and infrastructure projects, or in social movements and activism. Drawing on ethnographic, as well as cultural productions, we ask what it means to act rightly in a given place, for a given community - and who gets to decide. Our working group encompasses collaborators who think critically about the ethical dimensions of their own methods alongside those of their subjects. We meet weekly for informal writing sessions and monthly to workshop writing in progress.
Leads
- Sanniah Jabeen, Graduate Student, Art History
- Katharine Rankin, Professor, Geography and Planning
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Kajri Jain, Professor, Art History
- Rajyashree Reddy, Associate Professor (and Graduate Chair), Geography and Planning
- Luisa Sotomayor, Associate Professor, Geography and Planning
- Nidhi Subramanyan, Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning
- Luis van Isschot, Associate Professor, History
Faculty Members, Outside University of Toronto
- Shubhra Gururani, Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Hassan Asif, Postdoctoral Fellow, Religion
- Harshvir Bali PhD student, Geography and Planning
- Lauren Barnes, PhD candidate, Art History
- Su Yen Chong, PhD candidate, Art History
- Noha Fikry, PhD candidate Anthropology & Religion
- Ridhima Sharma, PhD candidate, Religion & Anthropology
Graduate Students, Outside University of Toronto
- Harsha Anantharaman, Postdoctoral student, Asian Studies, York University