Anita Girvan

Biographic Data

ID2187036
NAMEAnita Girvan
GIVEN NAMESAnita
FAMILY NAMEGirvan
SIGNATUREGIRVAN A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0009-0007-3751-3167
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Poetic Fabulations

    Open AccessAnita Girvan, Maya Seshia et al.ARTICLEAtlantis2024

    This collective work (four authors) demonstrates how persistent structures in higher education are mobilized in the signing of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education: Principles, Actions, and Accountabilities. We read this event against the grain, as an act requiring relation-building and accountability. Recognizing the promises and risks of this work, and inspired by Black Feminist/coalition…

  • Ecologies of De/colonization

    Open AccessAnita Girvan, Astrid V Pérez PiñánARTICLEStudies in Social Justice2024References: 7

    In this photo essay, we take readers through ecologies of de/colonization that we engage with in our creative methodology of walking and talking. As academics called upon to do equity, diversity and decolonization work in colonial institutions, we reflect on our location in lək̓wəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ lands (“Victoria, BC, Canada”) and the circuits that extend to the Caribbean archipelago of our origins and families (Borikén/Puerto Rico and Jamaica). W…

  • Tracing E-race-sures, Finding Reclamations

    Anita Girvan, Makayla Lesann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Canadian Studies2023

    At this critical time of reckoning with histories and present legacies in Canada, we come together as an emergent collaborative research team to reflect on how education and wider systems in this country have shaped our individual and collective experiences. As we affirm our practice of visiting and sharing histories from embodied perspectives and commitments in order to build relations, we find echoes in the concepts and practices of Métis and B…

  • Poetics of Care

    Anita Girvan, Girvan et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies2020Cited by: 1

    Feminist Studies 46, no. 3. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 717 Anita Girvan, Baljit Pardesi, Davina Bhandar, and Nisha Nath Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral Crisis as Structure, Not Event On March 11, 2020, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “[rang] the alarm bell loud and clear.” In declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, he iterated that this was “not just a public health crisis,” but a crisis “that will touch e…

  • Carbon Footprints as Cultural–Ecological Metaphors

    Anita GirvanBOOKCarbon Footprints As Cultural-Ecolo…2017

    Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor. The carbon footprint metaphor has achieved a ubiquitous presence in Anglo-North American public contexts since the turn of the millennium, yet this metaphor remains under-examined as a crucial mediator of political responses to the urgent crisis of cl…

  • Trickster carbon

    Open AccessAnita GirvanARTICLEJournal of Political Ecology2017Cited by: 6References: 7

    This article proposes the idea of the trickster figure as a way to account for the shifting material, and cultural properties of carbon in the cultural politics of climate change. Combining scientific understandings of allotropy in chemistry – describing the property of certain elements to manifest in various highly diverse forms – and the insights of Caribbean trickster stories, trickster carbon enables novel understandings of the multiple worki…