New YCAR-hosted project explores “slow violence” in Mekong region


Congratulations to Faculty Associates Nga Dao (Social Science) and Vanessa Lamb (Social Science) on their receipt of a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for their project on slow violence and water (in)justice: Feminist political ecologies of intergenerational struggles in the Mekong region. They will work with a team of researchers and partner organizations from Vietnam, Thailand and Canada to explore the processes, benefits and uneven impacts and benefits of transformations in Southeast Asia’s Mekong Region as a type of “slow violence” that emphasizes time and generation in analysis.

A full list of PDG grant recipients is available here at this link https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/recipients-recipiendaires/2022/pdg-sdp-eng.aspx