AFRICAN ORIGINS IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY:
A study of the Black Banker Ladies and economic collectives in Canada
Keynote Lecture
Informal Financial Markets: Now and Then - From Pre-banking to Bitcoins
Umeå University - Sweden
Program PDF
Articles
Fringe banking in Canada: A study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Toronto’s inner suburbs. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research / Revue canadienne de recherche sur les OBSL et l’économie sociale. Vol. 8 (1), July 2017, pp.29– 43. (PDF)
Student Researchers
Maymun Abukar
Toronto-based researcher (SSHRC Graduate Assistant). Maymun Abukar is currently a graduate student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) at York University. She completed her BA in Geography and Urban Studies at York University. Much of Maymun’s past research involved documenting cityscapes and urbanscapes of global cities, as well as urban analysis of Toronto neighbourhoods. Today, her research work includes the racialized social economy, housing, urban planning and development processes.
Esery Mondesir
Esery is a Toronto-based filmmaker whose practice ranges from documentary to fiction to experimental narratives. Mondesir was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haïti and received his MFA in cinema production from York University in 2017. His work takes a critical stance on modern-day social, political and cultural phenomena to suggest a reading of our society from its margins. Mondesir has been the recipient of the Paavo and Aino Lukkari Human Rights Award (2017), the W. Lawrence Heisey Graduate Awards in fine arts (2016) among others. His short film Dangerous Weapons was among the 10 finalists at the 2016 TVO short doc contest. In a previous life, Mondesir worked as a high school literature teacher, a book designer and a labour organizer.
Amanda Whittaker
Amanda Whittaker is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto. She completed her BA at McGill University and her MA in history at Concordia University. Her scholarly appetite has motivated her interest in gender studies, food history, and the collaborative practice of oral history. Her research focuses on the experience of migration, forced or voluntary, and the development and preservation of migrants’ foodways, particularly in the Montreal, Quebec area. In 2016, she enthusiastically joined Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein in finding focus group participants and making community contacts in Little Burgundy and Côte-des-Neiges area.
Violet Ferreira Sutherland
Violet is a 2nd year PhD candidate at York University in the Department of Gender, Feminist and Women’s Study. Her research interest is in the area of feminist transformative social-solidarity economy (SSE), where she intends to conduct an interdisciplinary comparative study on the extent to which Co-operative Banks in Canada and Jamaica are functioning as instruments of colonization or are addressing issues of reorganizing social reproduction and integrating the political goals of gender equality and equitable gender power. Violet holds an MBA in Finance (Western Michigan University, USA), MPhil in Gender and Development Studies (University of the West Indies), Post Graduate Certificate in Project Management (Centennial College, Canada), BA in Economics & History (UWI).
Reena Shadaan
Toronto-based Researcher. Reena Shadaan is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies (York University), and a recipient of the Canada Graduate Scholarship in honor of Nelson Mandela. Her research work spans environmental justice, occupational health, and the social economy.