Feb 22, 2022
When Yasmeen Met Abbie: Collaborations and Friendships in the Academy
When we think about academic relationships, we often think of romantic partnerships between two academics. We might also think about the power relationships between, say, a supervisor and a student, or a dean and a professor. But we often don’t think about our research collaborations as an important kind of relationship. That’s surprising because research collaborations are, arguably, the most important relationships that you will ever have in academia.
In this episode, we talk to https://www.twitter.com/yasmeenabulaban (Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban), a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta and https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/People/370533/Abbie_Bakan.html (Dr. Abigail Bakan), a Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. They are research collaborators, friends, and an inspiration for those of us who are doing work that is intensely contested and political.
Related Links
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/israel-palestine-and-the-politics-of-race-9781780765327/ (Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race), by Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail Bakan
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p081880 (Dissident Friendships), edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose
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