Abigail B. Bakan is Professor in the Department of Social Justice in Education (SJE), at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), and cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. With Yasmeen Abu-Laban, she is co-author of Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race: Exploring Identity and Power in a Global Context.
Experience
2013–2021
Professor, OISE, University of Toronto
1998–2013
Professor, Queen's University
1991–1998
Associate Professor, Queen's University
1985–1991
Assistant Professor, Queen's University
Education
1984
York University, PhD, Political Science
1978
York University, MA, Political Science
1975
York University , BAH, Political Science
Publications
2021
The Israel/Palestine Racial Contract and the Challenge of Anti-Racism: Case Study of the UN World Conference Against Racism, Ethnic and Racial Studies
2020
Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race, IB Tauris, Bloomsbury
2020
Going Flat: Breast Cancer, Mastectomy and the Politics of Choice, Imaginations
2017
Intersectionality and the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Atlantis
2014
Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theory, U of Toronto Press
2012
After 9/11: Canada, Israel/Palestine, and the Surveillance of Public Discourse, Canadian Journal of Law and Society
2012
Marxism, Feminism and Epistemological Dissonance, Socialist Studies
2010
Israel/Palestine, South Africa and the 'One-State Solution': The Case for an Apartheid Analysis, Politikon: South African Journal of Political Science
2009
Palestinian Resistance and International Solidarity: The BDS Campaign, Race and Class
2005
Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System, U of Toronto Press
2002
Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left, McGill-Queen's U Press
2000
Employment Equity Policy in Canada: An Interprovincial Comparison, Status of Women Canada
1990
Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion, McGill-Queen's U Press
Grants and Contracts
2018
UN as Knowledge Producer: World Conferences on Women, Racialized and Indigenous Peoples
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2011
Debating Racism and Framing Anti-Racism: The Analytical and Policy Implications of UN World Conferences 2001-2009
Role:
Co-applicant
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2000
Employment Equity and the Backlash Effect: The Geography of Political Culture in BC and Ontario
Role:
Co-applicant
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
1998
Systemic Racism and Employment Equity Policy in Canada