I am conducting an SSHRC-funded postdoctoral project examining Canada's legislative and regulatory frameworks for social justice in the context of rising planetary threats. I argue that Canada's unmet commitments to social justice domestically and globally can be traced to the same colonial doctrine that undermines the self-determination of historically marginalized groups. ​

 

This project is informed by my practitioner work on this agenda in Canada and my doctoral conclusions, which suggest the need to shift the focus of critical development studies onto the so-called "donor" countries as silent resisters of global development reforms. My doctoral project was set up as a systems-level interpretive inquiry into the bottlenecks of the world's first universal framework for global development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030). Based on the insight of 193 experts across multilateral, bilateral, and national government, and non-government institutions mainly in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, I define Agenda 2030 as a more legitimate global development model contributing to nationally set agendas. Their effective implementation, however, remains obstructed by the change-resistant mechanisms of international assistance imposed even by the so-called "feminist donor countries." I have, therefore, shifted my focus onto the paradox of Canada's "aid" sector perpetuating inequality on national and global scales. 

 

My analysis of Canadian and global governance for social justice is informed by my standpoint as a feminist policy scholar. Therefore, accompanying my doctoral as well as postdoctoral projects are my critically engaged explorations of emerging international feminist solidarity. Engaged in praxis-oriented feminist scholarship, I combine my practitioner and academic work to contribute to the ongoing efforts to re-imagine feminist futures and identify strategic possibilities for their construction.