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Ep. 6: Stuart Poyntz & Am Johal

Annetta Latham

Stuart Poyntz

 

Am Johal

Stuart R. Poyntz is Professor and Director of the School of Communication and a Director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) at Simon Fraser University. His work in participatory research has largely involved teenagers in informal learning spaces and art institutes. His research more broadly addresses children’s media cultures, theories of public life, social care and urban youth cultures. He has published five books, including the forthcoming monograph, Youthsites: Histories of Creativity, Care and Learning in the City (Oxford UP), and has published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Oxford Review of Education, Popular Culture, Journal of Children and Media, Canadian Journal of Communication, Cultural Studies, Studies in Social Justice, Journal of Youth Studies, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, and in various edited collections. 

Am Johal has been Director of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement since December 2010 and Co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative since 2019. He is an associate with SFU's Centre for Dialogue and SFU's Institute for the Humanities, and has taught courses in the Semester in Dialogue, School for Contemporary Arts, Graduate Liberal Studies and Urban Studies. He is the author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene and co-author with Matt Hern, with contributions from Joe Sacco, of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale. 

EPISODE NOTES & LINKS

  • EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION

  • Alliance for Arts and Culture

    https://www.allianceforarts.com/ 

  • Community Engaged Research Handbook

    https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/resources.html

  • Community Engaged Research Institute (CERi)

    https://www.sfu.ca/ceri.html 

  • Dr. Angela Kaida

    https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48858.html 

  • Graduate Fellowship Program

    https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/ceri-programs-/graduate-research-fellowships.html 

  • Heart of the City Festival

    https://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/ 

  • Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside

    https://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/research-101-manifesto-ethical-research-downtown-eastside 

  • SFU School for Contemporary Arts

    https://www.sfu.ca/sca.html 

  • Vancity Office of Community Engagement 

    https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement.html 

  • Walk With Me

    https://www.walkwithme.ca/

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