What’s wrong with rights? Social movements, law and liberal imaginations -A discussion with Radha D’Souza
6.30pm Wednesday 2 May |ÌýImmigrant Workers Centre 110-4755 Avenue Van Horne, Montreal
Metro Plamondon (takeÌýPlamondon exit)
Radha D’Souza in conversation withÌý
- Dolores Chew (CERAS)
- Devlin Kuyek (GRAIN)
- Aziz Choudry (Immigrant Workers Centre/ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University)
Radha D’Souza has worked as an organizer and lawyer for labour movements, democratic rights and social movements in the Asia Pacific region.ÌýÌýAs a legal scholar, she has written extensively onÌýpolitics, human rights and social justice issues in non-Western countries.ÌýHer latest book,ÌýWhat’s Wrong with Rights?Ìýwas released by Pluto Press in January 2018.ÌýÌýShe is a Reader in Law at the University of Westminster and is currently a visiting scholar at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University’s Faculty of Law, as the O'Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
Dolores Chew is a founding member of the South Asian Women's Community Centre and of theÌýMarch 8thCommittee of Women of Diverse Origins. She is also a member of CERAS, teaches history and humanities at Marianopolis College and is a Research Associate at Concordia University's Simone de Beauvoir Institute.
Devlin KuyekÌýis a Montreal-basedÌýresearcherÌýand activist withÌýGRAINÌý(), a small international organization based in Barcelona that works with social movements around the world to support peasant agriculture and food sovereignty.
´¡³ú¾±³úÌý°ä³ó´Ç³Ü»å°ù²âÌýis associate professor and Canada Research Chair in social movement learning and knowledge production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University, and visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg. He serves on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal.
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